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    Indonesia searching for missing surveillance plane with 11 on board
  • This picture taken on March 6, 2025 shows K-pop group 1Verse members Seok (L) and Hyuk (R) performing during an interview with AFP at a studio in Seoul. 1Verse is a new five-member K-pop band: Chinese-American Kenny, Aito from Japan, Lao-Thai American Nathan, and Seok and Hyuk from North Korea who defected to the South. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY SKorea-NKorea-defector-kpop, FOCUS  BY Hieun SHIN (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Can two North Korean defectors take a new K-pop boy band to global superstardom?
  • South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (right) smash out some K-pop hits after their talks in Nara, central Japan on January 13, 2026.
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    Drumstick diplomacy for Japan and South Korea as leaders bang out K-pop hits
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
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    Canada’s leader patches things up with China as rift with Trump upends old certainties
  • Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, left, and Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro shake hands in Manila, on Thursday, January 15.
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    Japan and the Philippines sign a new defense pact as they face growing China aggression
  • A man looks at his mobile phone as he sits on the banks of the Yangtze River in Wuhan, China, on February 12, 2021.
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    Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: ‘Are You Dead?’
  • 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
  • Workers assemble cars at a factory owned by EV-maker Leapmotor in Jinhua, China earlier this month.
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    China’s record trade surplus shows it can thrive without the US, but can it keep its winning streak going?
  • Officials work at the site where a train was derailed when a construction crane collapsed and fell onto its carriages, causing several casualties, in Sikhio district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, January 14, 2026. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
    Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters
    Multiple fatalities as construction crane collapses onto moving train in Thailand

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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 Police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the Bondi Beach attackers 2:40
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    Video What we know about the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre 2:38
  • Funeral of Bondi Beach attack victim
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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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  • Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer.
    Florence Lo/Reuters/file
    Trump enacts 25% tariff on chips — with a caveat
  • China notches historic $1.2 trillion trade surplus despite Trump tariffs
  • Fact check: Trump litters Detroit economic speech with numerous false claims about economy
  • Trump ‘immediately’ imposes 25% tariffs on countries that do business with Iran. That could include China
  • Former Navy sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling information about ships to Chinese intelligence

India

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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
  • 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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Japan

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  • Participants bathe in ice-cold water to purify their souls and pray for good health during a New Year's ritual at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo, on January 11, 2026.
    Louise Delmotte/AP
    Japan dives into New Year with prayers and an icy plunge
  • Japanese PM’s Taiwan comments prompt China to ban certain exports to Japan
  • Bluefin tuna fetches record $3.2 million in year’s first sale at Tokyo fish market
  • Japan’s prime minister joins female lawmakers in fight for more toilets in parliament
  • Where to travel in 2026: The best places to visit

North Korea

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  • The first Nuclear Test codenamed 'Trinity', conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory at Alamogordo, New Mexico circa 1945.
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    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
  • 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

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

  • Remy Osman spots shadow tankers in the Singapore Strait from the rooftop of his apartment building.
    Remy Osman
    Meet the guy tracking illicit oil tankers from his rooftop
  • Musk’s Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first
  • 2025 was a terrible year for the ‘Four Families’ accused of running global cyber scam operations
  • Thailand frees 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July under new ceasefire deal
  • What happened when CNN Travel challenged ChatGPT to come up with guides to our cities
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