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  • In this image provided by the New Zealand Police items donated to a charity story including marijuana and cash are displayed in Southland, New Zealand, Feb. 18, 2026. (New Zealand Police via AP)
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    Bag containing weed and cash accidentally donated to New Zealand charity shop
  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a press conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China, March 8, 2026.
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    China warns ‘flames of war’ spreading, but signals its welcome for Xi-Trump meeting
  • Kim Jong Un at an opening of Saeppyol Street apartment complex for families of soldiers killed in Russia deployment in Pyongyang, North Korea, on February 16, 2026.
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    After Iran and Venezuela, Kim Jong Un must decide how to handle Trump
  • Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, waits to cast his vote as the prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party during Nepal's early election in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 5, 2026.
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    Nepal’s early vote count puts ex-rapper’s party ahead
  • Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, on February 1, 2021.
    Tyrone Siu/Reuters
    Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal outcome in landmark security case
  • A worker inspects the production of high-end yarn on the intelligent production line of a new materials company in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China
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    China is about to show the world its plan to win the future
  • Nicolas Maduro, Xi Jinping and Ali Khamenei.
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    The US just took out two China-friendly leaders in two months. Why has Beijing done very little about it?
  • An Afghan woman walks out of a cell inside the women's section of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 23, 2021.
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    Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds
  • This picture taken on February 27, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on February 28, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) firing a new sniper rifle with his daughter Kim Ju Ae , at an undisclosed place in North Korea.
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    With sniper rifle photos, Kim Jong Un intensifies spotlight on his daughter, a potential successor

Videos

  • Will Ripley sleeps in a hammock in the Thai jungle
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    Video We slept in tiger country tracking a cub that’s re-writing history 4:27
  • North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said he's willing to get along with US fi Washington accepts North Korea's nuclear weapons state and drops hostile policy. Kim Jong Un's daughter and his wife attended the military parade which did not display any weapons.
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    Video Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter seen a possible successor 3:42
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    Video Blood, sweat and tears: Building Malaysia’s first tiger reserve 3:12
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    Video ‘Women are not weak’: meet Malaysia’s female tiger rangers 4:00
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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
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  • Motorists drive along a street as smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the area where the US Embassy is located in Kuwait City on March 2, 2026.
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    Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say
  • China was already a wind energy superpower. Now it’s testing giant airborne turbines
  • Facing ‘grave and complex landscape,’ China sets lowest economic growth target in decades
  • UK police arrest three on suspicion of China-related spying
  • 14th century shipwreck reveals huge cargo of rare Yuan Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain

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  • Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates talks during the Gates Foundation's first global Goalkeepers event in the Nordics, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 22, 2026.
    Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images
    Bill Gates cancels AI summit keynote address amid fresh scrutiny over Epstein links
  • Is India about to make Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs a whole lot cheaper?
  • A spiritual guru was jailed for rape and murder. He’s out on parole for the 15th time
  • Millions of Delhi residents lost water for days. Some say it’s still toxic
  • Deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state among 5 dead in air charter crash
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  • Yosuke Suga, chef and owner of invite-only restaurant Sugalabo in Tokyo.
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    A private phone number, secret opening times, and no interest in Michelin: Inside one of Tokyo’s invite-only restaurants
  • She’s one of the world’s most powerful conservative leaders – and she just won again
  • Japan’s Takaichi secures historic supermajority in landslide election victory
  • Japan’s conservative leader bets big on Takaichi mania with snap election. Will her gamble pay off?
  • Australian snowboarder dies after becoming caught on ski lift in Japan

North Korea

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  • Debris surrounds blackened THAAD radar in Jordan - <em>A satellite image taken on March 2, 2026, shows debris surrounding a blackened THAAD radar at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.</em><br /><em>Date: March 2, 2026</em>
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    Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show
  • Kim Jong Un vows to strengthen nuclear program, watches military parade with daughter
  • North Korea shows Kim Jong Un at the wheel of a mobile rocket launcher
  • Could this teenage girl be North Korea’s next leader?
  • Sex, death and betrayal: This North Korean movie shows things audiences have never seen before

Pakistan

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  • Afghan men gather near a damaged car after an overnight Pakistani airstrike hit a residential area at the Girdi Kas village in Bihsud district, Nangarhar province, on February 22, 2026.
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    Pakistan’s defense minister says latest clashes with Taliban mean ‘open war.’ What’s happening?
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan exchange cross-border strikes in escalating retaliatory attacks
  • Pakistan launches airstrikes against Afghan-based ‘militants’ it blames for cross-border attacks
  • A young lawyer is taking Pakistan’s government to court over ‘period tax.’ She hopes the case will break sexual health taboos
  • Suicide bomber kills dozens in Pakistan mosque

South Korea

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  • Chef Corey Lee walks past the on-site smart farm of his Korean restaurant, Na Oh, in Singapore.
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    Before Korean food was cool, Corey Lee was already redefining it
  • US stocks rise, Asian markets get rocked as Middle East conflict intensifies
  • K-pop in Colombia: Inside a global phenomenon
  • South Korea punishes former president who thought he could unravel democracy
  • Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection

Southeast Asia

  • This picture taken on February 24, 2026 shows Tommy Schaefer, a US citizen convicted of killing the mother of his then-pregnant teenage girlfriend and sentenced to 18 years in prison by a Bali court, preparing to leave the Jimbaran immigration detention centre in Denpasar, Bali, ahead of his deportation via I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. (Photo by ALDIV ALFASERA / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Indonesia frees and deports American who spent 11 years in prison for Bali ‘suitcase murder’
  • The house always wins: How the establishment finally came out on top in Thailand
  • Eat, Pray, Love – go! How Elizabeth Gilbert and her readers conquered the world
  • Freeways as runways: Indonesia plans to turn its islands into cheaper ‘aircraft carriers’
  • How a royal tiger reserve is protecting the last of Malaysia’s big cats
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