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  • Map showing the epicenter of an earthquake that hit near Japan's coastline on Monday.
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    Evacuation orders issued in Japan after powerful earthquake triggers tsunami warning
  • The Thai army is seen tending to an injured person following a skirmish along the disputed Thai-Cambodia border on December 7, 2025.
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    Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump’s peace agreement hangs in balance
  • Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on November 25.
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    Japan protests after China military jet locks radar on Japanese aircraft
  • A burned-out interior is seen inside the Birch nightclub following a fire that broke out overnight in Goa on December 7, 2025.
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    ‘Electrical fireworks’ may have sparked Goa nightclub fire that killed 25
  • Tourists visit the Taj Mahal at sunrise in Agra, India, on October 18, 2025.
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    A Bollywood film is turning India’s monument to love into a symbol of division
  • Passengers wait outside the IndiGo airlines ticketing counter at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, after several IndiGo airlines flights were cancelled, in Mumbai, India, December 5.
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    India air travel chaos eases but IndiGo crisis still leaves hundreds stranded
  • A youth carries an elderly man as they wade through a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Wellampitiya on the outskirts of Colombo on November 30, 2025.
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    How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia
  • 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
  • In this photo provided by the New Zealand Police a Fabergé pendant is held after it was recovered, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, from a man accused of stealing and swallowing the pendant. (New Zealand Police via AP)
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    Police recover Fabergé egg pendant from man accused of swallowing it

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  • <p>Thailand and Cambodia have accused each other of launching strikes in the latest escalation along their disputed border. CNN's Ivan Watson explains how a Trump-brokered ceasefire agreement signed earlier this year is potentially in danger.</p>
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    Video ‘My heart is broken’: Domestic worker mourns sister who died in Hong Kong fire 1:43
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    Video She was promised work as a customer service agent. Instead she was trafficked to run online scams 9:15
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    Video Why the Xi-Takaichi ‘honeymoon’ fell apart 1:36
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    Video How this smart baseball is helping players get discovered in Taiwan 3:03
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    Video Can Japan’s tourism industry survive China tensions? 1:14
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  • People fish near containers at the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on October 30, 2025.
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    China’s trade surplus hits $1 trillon in just 11 months despite plunge in shipments to US
  • Taiwan bans popular Chinese social media app amid growing number of fraud cases
  • A trade deal with Washington and a warm welcome for Putin: Can India have it both ways?
  • China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
  • Hong Kong leader vows ‘justice’ as apartment inferno investigators focus on unsafe netting

India

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  • NEW DELHI, INDIA - NOVEMBER 3: A layer of fog gets engulfed in the early hours of the morning deteriorating the Air Quality at Red Fort on November 3, 2025 in New Delhi, India. A blanket of smog and haze over parts of Delhi and NCR. Marking a spike in the air quality index (AQI), Delhi recorded an AQI of 318 on Sunday morning as per the Early Warning System. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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    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
  • Why an email about cows is intensifying concerns about academic freedom in India
  • After festival of lights, New Delhi plunged into toxic darkness and world’s most polluted air
  • The last of India’s mythic superstars
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Japan

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  • Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama as Kikuo and Shunsuke, rival kabuki actors in Japanese Oscar submission "Kikuho."
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    Kabuki film ‘Kokuho’ is a box office hit aiming for the Oscars. It could help revive the art form itself
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in ‘Mortal Kombat,’ dies at 75
  • Japanese fandom is having a moment in China – and not in a good way
  • Shohei Ohtani announces he will play for Japan in next year’s World Baseball Classic
  • Ukrainian refugee who fled war wins top sumo wrestling competition in Japan

North Korea

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  • A North Korean flag flies over its embassy in Moscow on October 31, 2024.
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    North Korean operatives running fake job portal targeting US AI firms
  • The phone notes that reveal an alleged plan to bait Kim Jong Un with drones
  • South Korea special prosecutor indicts former President Yoon on charges of aiding an enemy state
  • North Korea’s longtime ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died, Pyongyang says
  • Japan’s new leader Takaichi says she wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

Pakistan

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  • An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft flies over Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on April 15. Most of the strikes against alleged drug traffickers have been carried out using MQ-9 Reaper drones.
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    ‘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
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to new ceasefire after more than a week of deadly clashes

South Korea

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  • An elderly woman interacts with an AI-powered Hyodol plushie robot companion.
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    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
  • South Korean man gets life sentence over blackmail ring that sexually exploited or abused hundreds
  • South Korea’s latest soft-power export? Late Samsung billionaire Lee Kun-hee’s vast art collection

Southeast Asia

  • There were a whopping 30.3 million international trips to Bangkok in 2025, Euromonitor International estimates.
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    Bangkok is the world’s most visited city. But badly behaved tourists are creating problems in Asia
  • Thailand lifts ban on afternoon alcohol sales in time for year-end holiday festivities
  • Marine robotics firm will resume deep-sea search for MH370 plane that vanished a decade ago
  • ‘Like a tsunami’: Asia reels from deadly cyclones and monsoon rains
  • Visiting Vientiane, the world’s youngest Communist capital
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