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  • The Chancay megaport, backed by Chinese shipping giant COSCO, was inaugurated in 2024 and shortens shipping times between South America and China.
    Angela Ponce/Reuters
    China has spent decades making inroads in Latin America. Will the ‘Donroe doctrine’ push it out?
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he answers questions following his war anniversary statement that neighbouring nations will scrutinise for signs of sufficient remorse over Tokyo's past militarism at his official residence in Tokyo on August 14, 2015.
    TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
    Shinzo Abe Fast Facts
  • Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a bilateral meeting during his visit to China, in Beijing, China, on January 29, 2026.
    Carl Court/Reuters
    As Trump upends alliances, Britain says it needs a ‘more sophisticated’ relationship with China
  • A Chinese court sentencing 11 people to death for running a family-run criminal empire in Myanmar and for killing workers who tried to escape in Zhejiang, China on September 29, 2025.
    The People’s Courts News and Communication Agency, China
    China executes 11 members of gang who ran billion-dollar criminal empire in Myanmar
  • PUNE, INDIA - JANUARY 13: Maharashtra Dy CM and NCP Chief Ajit Pawar poses a picture at his residence on January 13, 2026 in Pune, India. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
    Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
    Deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state among 5 dead in air charter crash
  • SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 12: Kim Keon Hee, former first lady and the wife of South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a Seoul Central District Court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors on  on August 12, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. A court is set to hold a hearing on whether to issue a warrant to arrest former first lady Kim Keon Hee over her alleged involvement in a stock manipulation scheme, election meddling and bribe taking. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je - Pool/Getty Images)
    Jung Yeon-Je/Pool/Getty Images
    How a love of luxury brought down South Korea’s former first lady
  • TOPSHOT - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) poses for a photograph with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) and European Council President Antonio Costa before their meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 27, 2026. The leaders of India and the European Union will announce the "mother of all deals" when they meet in New Delhi to formalise a huge trade pact reached after two decades of negotiations. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP via Getty Images)
    Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
    India and Europe, both stung by Trump, turn to each other in a ‘mother of all deals’ on trade
  • Giant panda Xiao Xiao walks in its enclosure at Toyko's Ueno Zoo during the final day for public viewing before its departure for China.
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    Crowds bid farewell to Japan’s last pandas before return to China amid souring ties
  • This still frame from a video shows the snow leopard that attacked a tourist in China's northwest Xinjiang region.
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    Snow leopard mauls skier in China’s Xinjiang region

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  • Flight officer Rayan Gharazeddine scans the water in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia from a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion during a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 22, 2014.
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    Video New search begins more than ten years after flight MH370 went missing 1:57
  • Wildlife conservation photographer Sebastian Kennerknecht in Malaysia
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    Video The conservation couple chasing every wild cat on Earth 3:27
  • <p>A police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the attackers responsible for the Bondi Beach massacre has been identified by Australian media as Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza. He is believed to have shot dead Sajid Akram, 50, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and CNN affiliates 9News and 7News.</p>
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    Video Funerals underway as Sydney’s Jewish community confronts rising antisemitism 3:26
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  • An aerial view shows containers at the Balboa Port, operated by Panama Ports Company, a subsidiary of Hutchison Ports Holdings, at the Panama Canal, in Panama City, Panama, on February 1, 2025.
    Enea Lebrun/Reuters
    Hong Kong company’s concession to operate Panama Canal ports is ruled unconstitutional
  • This American woman traveled to the Czech Republic eight years ago and decided to stay for good
  • For Britain, China remains a ‘threat’ – but one worth doing business with
  • Xi has absolute control over China’s military. Now he wants more
  • Trump threatens new 100% tariffs on Canada over possible trade deal with China

India

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Food delivery persons of Swiggy are delivering food in Kolkata, India, on July 14, 2024.
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    In India, door deliveries can come in under 10 minutes. But many drivers are fed up
  • Half a billion voters. One list. Just seven weeks to clean it up
  • A Bollywood film is turning India’s monument to love into a symbol of division
  • A trade deal with Washington and a warm welcome for Putin: Can India have it both ways?
  • Lethal smog is back in the world’s most polluted capital. Residents have had enough
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Japan

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  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 21, 2026 in New York City. The S&P 500 had its best day since November after having its worst day since October.
    Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
    Trump’s Greenland saga has left lasting uncertainty on Wall Street
  • Japan’s hottest souvenir? A $2 pair of striped socks from a convenience store
  • Man who assassinated former Japan leader Abe with homemade gun sentenced to life in prison
  • Naomi Osaka makes grand entrance and big fashion statement at Australian Open
  • Japan prime minister Takaichi to dissolve parliament Friday and call national election

North Korea

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    Sex, death and betrayal: This North Korean movie shows things audiences have never seen before
  • North Korea’s Kim fires vice premier, calls him ‘a goat yoked to pull an ox cart’
  • Can two North Korean defectors take a new K-pop boy band to global superstardom?
  • Good news: World records longest ever lull in nuclear tests. Bad news: It’s on shaky ground
  • Pyongyang fires ballistic missiles as South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung makes state visit to China

Pakistan

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  • Firefighters douse a fire that broke out at a shopping mall in Karachi on January 18, 2026.
    Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images
    Dozens missing, 21 killed after massive Pakistan mall fire
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan trade fire along the border but no casualties are reported
  • ‘Enemy KIA’: Trump revives playbook from Afghanistan for campaign targeting alleged drug boats
  • Pakistan parliament approves more powers for army chief, curbs top court
  • Two blasts a day apart in India and Pakistan’s capitals fray regional nerves in an already tense year

South Korea

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  • Hyundai Motor Co. vehicles bound for export await shipment at a port near the company's plant in Ulsan, South Korea.
    SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    Trump says he’s raising tariffs on South Korea because it’s ‘not living up’ to trade agreement
  • Her agency crushed her K-pop idol dreams. Her reinvention brought them back to life
  • How a guilt-ridden cyberscammer escaped his Cambodian compound – and teamed up with the people it ruined
  • South Korea’s former leader jailed for 23 years in martial law case
  • Grit and glamour: Behind-the-scenes docuseries asks what it takes to become a K-pop idol

Southeast Asia

  • A Filipino walks through the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial during a Veterans Day ceremony on November 11, 2022.
    Francis R Malasig/EPA/Shutterstock
    The horrors of conflict still haunt America’s largest World War II cemetery
  • At least 18 killed and hundreds rescued in Philippines ferry disaster
  • Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old
  • How cocoa substitutes could tackle ‘chocflation’
  • Trump says he’ll ‘acquire’ Greenland. Here’s what the Constitution says
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