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  • Security personnel stand near a flight information board at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on October 26, 2025.
    Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
    Flights between India and China finally resume after five-year hiatus
  • Leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Sanae Takaichi arrives for a meeting with Japan Innovation Party's, known as Ishin, leader Hirofumi Yoshimura and co-leader Fumitake Fujita, at Japan's National Diet Building in Tokyo on October 20, 2025.
    Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
    Japan’s new prime minister faces her biggest test yet: Meeting Trump
  • Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen meets a delegation of investors including Prince Group chairman Chen Zhi at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on April 25, 2022.
    Hun Sen’s official media page/Facebook
    The young tycoon accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar international fraud network
  • (Left) The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian
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    China’s newest aircraft carrier not as capable as 50-year-old US ship in one key respect, former US officers say
  • Fatima Begum’s daughter is more than a year old, but looks much younger due to malnutrition.
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    Marco Rubio said US aid cuts were to slash bureaucracy. So why are more refugee children going hungry?
  • Queen Sirikit of Thailand, standing before a porcelain encrusted tower in one of the many pavilions of the Grand Palace, wearing a Thai silk pa-hom and pa-noong, in gold, red, and pink. (Photo by Henry Clarke/Condé Nast via Getty Images)
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    Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit has died at age 93
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping sits alongside other members of the Politburo Standing Committee during fourth plenum on October 23.
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    In its rivalry with the US, China sees an advantage: the long game
  • People on a balcony of a building with what appears to be Starlink satellite dishes on the roof in the KK Park complex in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township, as pictured from Mae Sot district in Thailand's border province of Tak, on September 17, 2025.
    Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
    SpaceX disables thousands of Starlink devices being used by Myanmar scam centers
  • South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during an interview with CNN in Seoul on October 22.
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    South Korea’s president downplays US trade rift and welcomes Trump as ‘peacemaker’

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  • The USS Gerald R. Ford transits the Strait of Gibraltar on October 1.
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    MAGA hero hands big win to Trump’s Latin America strategy
  • Asia markets and US stock futures rise after US and Chinese officials agree on trade deal framework
  • US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in the South China Sea
  • Trump’s Asia trip to test his dealmaking abilities with old rivals and new friends
  • Georgia arrests three Chinese nationals for trying to buy uranium illegally, local media reports

India

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  • A layer of smog can be seen in the early hours of the morning at Wazirabad, in New Delhi, India, on October 18, 2025.
    Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
    After festival of lights, New Delhi plunged into toxic darkness and world’s most polluted air
  • Trump claimed India had agreed to stop buying Russian oil. New Delhi says it knows nothing about it
  • A newborn baby was found buried alive. The reason may have been her gender
  • Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists
  • India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump
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  • A police cordon at an area of the Pantheon's perimeter wall in Rome, Italy, on October 25, after a Japanese tourist fell from the wall and died.
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    Tourist dies after falling from outer wall of Rome’s Pantheon
  • What the Ronald Reagan ad that got Trump so angry was really all about
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  • Was Shohei Ohtani’s NLCS Game 4 the greatest baseball performance ever? Who wins the World Series? A conversation
  • Museums after dark: London’s historic halls get a new lease on life

North Korea

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  • A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on October 22, 2025.
    Ahn Young-joon/AP
    North Korea test-fires ballistic missiles ahead of Trump’s Asia trip
  • Trump officials quietly discussing Kim Jong Un meeting during upcoming Asia trip
  • North Korean submunition found in drone used to attack Ukraine, report finds
  • As its ruling party turns 80, an emboldened Kim Jong Un shows off North Korea’s new hypersonic weapon, ICBM
  • North Korea’s ruling party turns 80 and Kim Jong Un is rolling out the red carpet for a major celebration

Pakistan

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  • Afghan Defence Minister Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob, centre left, shakes hands with Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif after reaching a ceasefire deal during talks in Doha, Qatar.
    Qatar Foreign Ministry
    Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to new ceasefire after more than a week of deadly clashes
  • With rare earths, deft diplomacy (and ample flattery), Pakistan shows how to deal with Trump 2.0
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan agree ceasefire after trading their deadliest fire in years. Here’s what we know
  • Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes in worst fighting since Taliban returned to power
  • The making of an al Qaeda fighter: Spin Ghul’s journey from the streets of Saudi Arabia to jihadi training camps

South Korea

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  • Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcoming ceremony in Beijing, on November 9, 2017.
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    What’s at stake as US and China trade negotiators meet ahead of Trump-Xi summit
  • Baek Se-hee, author of bestselling memoir ‘I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki,’ dead at 35
  • Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction
  • US establishes new Reaper drone unit 250 miles from China
  • Explosive battery blaze in South Korea ‘paralyzes’ vital government services

Southeast Asia

  • Lindsay Sandiford, seen here in this 2013 file image, was convicted of smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine into the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
    Firdia Lisnawati/AP/File
    British grandmother spared firing squad in repatriation deal with Indonesia
  • 50 of the world’s best breads
  • Court rejects Israel’s appeal after Indonesia refused to grant team’s visas to artistic gymnastics world championships
  • Death toll rises in Philippines after twin quake triggering 2 tsunami warnings
  • Trump calls for investigation into Blumenthal over allegations he lied about military service
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