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  • Robots compete in a 5x5 football match during the World Humanoid robots games in Beijing on August 17, 2025.
    Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images
    China’s robot sports craze could eventually put humanoids in homes
  • Bai Suo Cheng is handed over to Chinese police officers at the Nay Pyi Taw International Airport in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on January 30, 2024.
    Xinhua/Shutterstock
    2025 was a terrible year for the ‘Four Families’ accused of running global cyber scam operations
  • This image from Sunday, December 28, 2025 shows a projectile flying mid-air on the day North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a long-range strategic cruise missile launching drill, according to local media, at an unknown location. Pictured released December 29, 2025 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Pyongyang fires ballistic missiles as South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung makes state visit to China
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Food delivery persons of Swiggy are delivering food in Kolkata, India, on July 14, 2024.
Food Delivery App In India, Kolkata - 14 Jul 2024
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    In India, door deliveries can come in under 10 minutes. But many drivers are fed up
  • Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, during a party leaders' debate at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2025.
    Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    Japan’s prime minister joins female lawmakers in fight for more toilets in parliament
  • A decaying mural promoting the Chinese one child per family policy suffers from neglect in a Beijing back street October 17, 1996.
    Will Burgess/Reuters
    Ten years after it ended its ‘one-child’ policy, China’s push for more babies isn’t winning its citizens over
  • Cambodian soldiers repatriated from Thailand after being captured in July, receive roses following their release under the terms of a ceasefire agreement in Pailin province, Cambodia on December 31, 2025.
    Soveit Yarn/Reuters
    Thailand frees 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July under new ceasefire deal
  • In this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2014, a bear looks out from a cage at a bear farm in Dangjin, South Korea.
    Lee Jin-man/AP
    South Korea will end breeding of bears and extraction of their bile
  • A woman works in a noodle store near a television screen showing a news report on China's "Justice Mission 2025" military drills around Taiwan, in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday.
    Tsai Hsin-Han/Reuters
    China stages war games around Taiwan after hitting out at major US arms deal

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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 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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    Video Suspected gunmen in Bondi Beach shooting were father and son, police say 1:26
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    Video Israeli PM says Australia poured “oil on the flames of antisemitism” through inaction 1:22
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  • Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaking in Tokyo on November 7, 2025.
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    Japanese PM’s Taiwan comments prompt China to ban certain exports to Japan
  • Maduro’s capture is a blow to China. But on Chinese social media it’s being hailed as a blueprint for Taiwan
  • The world has a new EV king. It’s not Tesla
  • British Chinese food is all over TikTok. Americans have questions
  • What happened when CNN Travel challenged ChatGPT to come up with guides to our cities

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  • Ruby Verma Centre. This is India, and that’s nearly a billion people whose details need to be verified before they’re allowed to participate in the world’s largest democracy. Across the country, tens of thousands of civil servants are rushing to input voter details into a database. By hand. And the deadline is Friday for India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The last list dates from 2003 and authorities say it needs cleaning up to reflect mass migration from the countryside to the cities, the accumulation of deceased voters and to remove those on the list illegally.
    Esha Mitra/CNN
    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
  • India arrests Kashmir resident in connection with deadly Red Fort bomb attack
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  • Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., poses with the bluefin tuna that won the highest bid at the annual New Year auction in Tokyo, on January 5, 2026.
    Louise Delmotte/AP
    Bluefin tuna fetches record $3.2 million in year’s first sale at Tokyo fish market
  • Where to travel in 2026: The best places to visit
  • At least 15 injured in knife and bleach attack at Japan factory
  • Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
  • Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan

North Korea

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  • Photo of 100-day-old Sohn Yang-young or Kimchi 1 taken after the family settled on Geoje Island after evacuating from Hungnam.
    Charlie Miller/CNN
    Naval nativity: As their mothers fled North Korean forces 75 years ago, five Christmas babies were born at sea
  • North Korea reveals new images of its first ‘nuclear-powered’ submarine
  • US submarines are outnumbered in the Pacific. South Korea has a plan to help
  • North Korea’s Kim Jong Un hails troops returning from Russia
  • North Korean operatives running fake job portal targeting US AI firms

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.
    Stringer/Reuters/File
    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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    An aversion to alcohol is moving the global party scene in an unexpected direction
  • This college entrance exam was so hard an official had to resign. Could you ace these questions?
  • South Korea’s aging population finds comfort, care in ‘robo-grandma’ dolls
  • New Zealand woman jailed for life over murder of her two children found in storage locker suitcases
  • US Air Force Reaper drone crashes off South Korea

Southeast Asia

  • Mourners gather at a tribute at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 16, 2025. Australia's leaders have agreed to toughen gun laws after attackers killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach, the worst mass shooting in decades decried as antisemitic "terrorism" by authorities.
    Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
    Alleged Bondi gunmen did not train in the Philippines and acted alone, police say
  • Indonesian rescuers search for Spanish soccer coach and 3 children after tour boat sinks
  • Thailand and Cambodia sign truce to halt fierce border conflict
  • Malaysia court finds jailed former leader Najib Razak guilty of abuse of power in biggest 1MDB trial
  • While most of the world is preparing for Christmas, the Philippines has been at it for months
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