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  • Koji Sakahara with a photograph of his Father Hiromu Sakahara.
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    A man was jailed for murder. 15 years after his death, he will get a retrial
  • India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump
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    Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran
  • Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends his criminal trial on insurrection charges at a courtroom of the Seoul Central District Court on April 21, 2025.
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    Ex-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to 30 years in jail over Pyongyang drone plot
  • Princess Bajrakitiyabha greets royalist supporters outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on November 1, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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    Thai princess dies at 47 following years-long coma, Royal Palace says
  • A prison vehicle carrying Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed, also known as Adem Karadag, who were charged over the deadly 2015 Bangkok arrive at the South Bangkok Criminal Court on June 11, 2026.
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    Thai court sentences two Uyghur men to death for 2015 Bangkok bombing
  • Rockets are launched from High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) during a military live-fire shooting training in Taichung City, Taiwan, Wednesday, June 10.
    Chiang Ying-ying/AP
    Taiwan test-fires rockets in China’s direction from US-supplied mobile launching system
  • Firefighters spray water during a major fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on November 26, 2025. At least four people were killed when a fire engulfed several high-rise blocks in a Hong Kong residential estate on November 26, the government said, with media reporting that some residents were trapped inside.
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    Seven people and two firms charged over Hong Kong deadly fire that killed 168
  • A notice warning of bear is posted at the entrance of a park in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan on June 8, 2026. Since June 6th, there have been approximately 40 sightings of a bear about 1 meter long at a residential area of Utsunomiya City, the capital city of Tochigi Prefecture, with its population of 500,000. As a result, all municipal elementary and junior high schools have been temporarily closed, and city authorities are scrambling to take measures to deal with the bear.
    Kotaro Numata/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
    Japanese city closes nearly 100 schools after bear sightings as post-hibernation attacks rise
  • A large screen in Beijing shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un shaking hands in Pyongyang on June 8.
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    Why China’s Xi wants a ‘brighter’ future with North Korea

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  • Federal Bureau of Investigation insignias adorn desks in New York on June 4.
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    FBI seizes over a dozen websites it says were used by Chinese agents to recruit US officials
  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands for a photo at Kumsusan State Guesthouse in Pyongyang, Monday, June 8, 2026. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)
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    China’s Xi Jinping calls for strengthened ‘strategic cooperation’ with North Korea in rare summit with Kim Jong Un
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping pictured on May 20, 2026 in Beijing, China.
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    China’s Xi Jinping to make rare trip to North Korea next week
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    Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago
  • China’s national flag flutters in the wind with the CITIC tower visibe in the background ahead of Brunei's Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah and China’s President Xi Jinping meeting in Beijing, China, May 12, 2026. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool
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    Chinese spies using online job platforms to recruit, Five Eyes security alliance warns

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  • ABVP members clash with security forces during protest against the National Testing Agency (NTA) over alleged NEET Paper leak at NTA office on May 13, 2026 in New Delhi, India. The protest follows the high-stakes cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 medical entrance examination, which was originally held on May 3. The government scrapped the exam on Tuesday evening after credible evidence of a widespread paper leak and systematic irregularities surfaced.(Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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    India’s youth are fuming. A Boston University graduate wants to fix that
  • Maoist rebels exercise at a temporary base in the Abujh Marh forests, in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh, India, on April 13, 2007 file photo,
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    Some of the world’s last Maoist rebels are in India. Their decades-long rebellion is in its death throes
  • A man visits the web page of the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party on a laptop in Dharamshala, India, Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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    India’s Gen Z have flipped the lowly cockroach into a symbol of defiance
  • A couple gets married in a lavish wedding ceremony in Delhi, India, December 2025.
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    Iran war injects fresh urgency into Modi’s ‘Wed in India’ campaign
  • A man speaks on a mobile phone as he walks across a crowded market in Varanasi, India, on October 25, 2025.
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    How India plans to count 1.4 billion people
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  • AN8EJC People bathing in outdoor rotemburo onsen on shore of Lake Akan in Akan National Park Hokkaido
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    ‘Read the air’: A Japanese hot spring expert shares some naked truths about naked bathing
  • Shoko Kawata, Japan's youngest female city mayor at the age of 35, announces to take a maternity leave this summer.
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    A Japanese mayor is making history — by taking maternity leave
  • Undated photo of James "Weston" Higginbotham.
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    Missing American student found dead in Japan after dayslong search
  • Weston Higginbotham, an Auburn University student, has been missing in Japan since May 29.
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    The US college student missing in Japan has been found dead. Here’s a timeline of key moments in the case
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North Korea

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  • Korth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un meets with U-17 Asian champions in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 1, 2026.
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    Kim Jong Un is loving North Korean women’s soccer. What drives its remarkable success?
  • North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un looks around the new nuclear materials production factory on June 3, 2026, according to state media KCNA.
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    Kim Jong Un inspects new nuclear plant, plans ‘exponential’ weapons production ramp-up
  • North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC players arrive at Incheon International Airport in Incheon on May 17, 2026, ahead of the Women's Asian Champions League semi-final football match against South Korea's Suwon FC Women. A North Korean women's football team arrived in South Korea on May 17, marking the first visit by a sports team from the isolated country to its southern neighbour in eight years, to play in the Asian Champions League semi-finals. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Soccer players become first North Korean athletes to visit the South in more than 7 years
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    A Russian ship sank in mysterious circumstances. It may have been carrying submarine nuclear reactors to North Korea
  • Kim spoke at the opening of a vast new memorial complex on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
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    Kim Jong Un praises soldier suicides, signals deepening role in Russia’s war

Pakistan

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  • Police officers and volunteers recover an injured person from an overturned train coach on a railway track at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, on May 24, 2026.
    Arshad Butt/AP
    Bomb attack near railway station in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23
  • US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in New York on Friday.
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    Trump says agreement with Iran has ‘been largely negotiated’ and Strait of Hormuz will be opened
  • People cross a street near a billboard on the facade of a building depicting the Strait of Hormuz with a caption in Persian reading "Forever in Iran's Hand", at Vanak Square in Tehran on May 6, 2026.
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    US and Iran closing in on agreement aimed at ending war, source says
  • President Donald Trump listens to speeches before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Washington.
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    Why President Trump extended his ceasefire with Iran
  • Police officers stand guard at a barricaded checkpoint, to ensure security ahead of a second round of negotiations between the US and Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
    Anjum Naveed/AP
    Islamabad on hold as US and Iran at a historic tipping point

South Korea

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  • Edward Hasler took this photograph in a helicopter over the Namib desert. Heavy rainfall had created rivers in the sand dunes, which flowed out into the sand, leaving these tree-like marks.
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    Stunning images from the National Geographic Traveller UK photo competition
  • The logo of SK hynix is displayed on a glass wall during the 2026 World IT Show in Seoul on April 22, 2026.
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    For the third time this month, a chip giant has joined the $1 trillion club
  • Dissident Dong Guangping was detained in China in 2014. He was allowed to see his lawyer on September 5, 2014, when this photo was taken.
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    Dissident escapes China by inflatable boat in fourth attempt to reunite with family
  • Oreo and Korean pop band BTS collaborated to create a first-ever, limited-edition Oreo flavor. The cookie's creme is inspired by hotteok, a brown-sugar stuffed pancake that's popular in Korea. The cookies have 13 embossments, including a wafer stamped with the members' names.
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    BTS is releasing limited edition hotteok-flavored Oreos

Southeast Asia

  • In this picture taken on January 18, 2018, a guide walks through the Vinh Moc tunnel network, at the Vinh Moc commune in the central coastal province of Quang Tri. The Vinh Moc tunnels are among thousands of underground passageways built across Vietnam throughout the war, including the massive Cu Chi tunnels in Saigon, where Viet Cong guerrillas took shelter beneath the former Southern capital, which was renamed Ho Chi Minh city after the war's end in 1975. (Photo by HOANG DINH Nam / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH Vietnam-US-War-History by Jenny VAUGHAN
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    The underground tunnel village where Vietnamese people lived for years to hide from war
  • Police gather in front of a collapsed Jollibee fast food restaurant after an 7.8 magnitude earthquake in General Santos City on June 8, 2026.
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    Dozens killed after deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits southern Philippines
  • A man walks past a house in the Playa neighborhood in Havana on April 23, 2026. Price hikes in some neighborhoods, intermediaries activity in social media, and growing interest from Cuban-American emigres: Havana's real estate market shows signs of revival in anticipation of possible economic or political changes on the communist island.
    Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
    The $9 billion issue at the heart of US-Cuba tensions
  • People look at the flight information screen at the newly commissioned Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 (T2) in Hong Kong, China on May 27, 2026.
    Tom Booth/CNN
    Asia’s airport wars continue as Hong Kong reveals revamped Terminal 2
  • Kengkard Bongawong, Head of the Metta Tham Kalasin Rescue, reacts as he comes out from the cave after finding out five people were alive, as the rescue team works to save trapped people in a cave, in Xaisomboun Province, Laos, May 27, 2026, in this screengrab taken from a handout video.
    Metta Tham Kalasin Rescue/Handout via Reuters
    They were trapped looking for gold in a flooded cave. How were they found and will they be rescued?
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