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  • Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, walks down the podium after addressing the Western Pacific Navy Symposium held in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province on Monday, April 22, 2024.
    Ng Han Guan/AP
    China’s top general under investigation in latest military purge
  • Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo (center) arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for his first sentencing trial in the insurrection case on January 21, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea.
    Chung Sung-Jun/Pool/Reuters
    South Korea’s former leader jailed for 23 years in martial law case
  • Tetsuya Yamagami, bottom, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 8, 2022.
    Katsuhiko Hirano/AP
    Man who assassinated former Japan leader Abe with homemade gun sentenced to life in prison
  • Gantry cranes stand near shipping containers as a container ship  is docked at Yangshan Port outside of Shanghai, China, on June 17, 2025.
    Go Nakamura/Reuters
    As Trump sows division, China says it’s the calm, dependable leader the world needs
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this picture released September 22, 2025, by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.
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    North Korea’s Kim fires vice premier, calls him ‘a goat yoked to pull an ox cart’
  • 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
  • Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on December 17.
    Kiyoshi Ota/AFP/Getty Images
    Japan prime minister Takaichi to dissolve parliament Friday and call national election
  • China has introduced policies to boost its birthrate that so far haven't delivered a population rise.
    Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
    China’s birth rate drops to record low as economy hits target despite US trade war
  • Joint search and rescue teams climb towards the suspected crash site of an Indonesia Air Transport turboprop plane on Sunday.
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    Indonesia finds wreckage of missing surveillance plane carrying 10

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    Video China birth rate at record low. This is why it matters 0:58
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    Video Why China is making condoms and birth control pills more expensive 1:22
  • 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 What we know about the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre 2:38
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    Video Funerals underway as Sydney’s Jewish community confronts rising antisemitism 3:26
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  • TikTok is seen in the app store of an iPhone on January 8, 2025.
    Brook Joyner/CNN
    The deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed
  • Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
  • Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum
  • Ai Weiwei quietly returns to China after a decade: ‘It felt like a phone call suddenly reconnecting’
  • The great race for the Arctic: Why Russia, China and the US all have it in their sights

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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  • 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.
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    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
  • Naomi Osaka makes grand entrance and big fashion statement at Australian Open
  • Drumstick diplomacy for Japan and South Korea as leaders bang out K-pop hits
  • Japan and the Philippines sign a new defense pact as they face growing China aggression

North Korea

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    Sex, death and betrayal: This North Korean movie shows things audiences have never seen before
  • 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
  • Naval nativity: As their mothers fled North Korean forces 75 years ago, five Christmas babies were born at sea

Pakistan

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  • An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border October 15, in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
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    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
  • At least 12 killed in Islamabad suicide attack – the most deadly assault in the Pakistani capital since 2008

South Korea

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  • BLACKSWAN in "K-Pop Idols," premiering August 30, 2024 on Apple TV+.
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    Grit and glamour: Behind-the-scenes docuseries asks what it takes to become a K-pop idol
  • BTS propelled K-pop to global stardom. Nearly four years later, they’re back
  • For those seeking K-pop stardom, the path can be long and grueling
  • ‘Moving’ is the first big Korean hit for Disney+. Star Ryu Seungryong has some thoughts on why
  • BTS stars finish military service as band plans to reunite this year

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
  • 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
  • Meet the guy tracking illicit oil tankers from his rooftop
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