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  • 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
  • Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sit in a car as they depart Palam Air Force Base following the Russian leader's arrival in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, December 4.
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    A trade deal with Washington and a warm welcome for Putin: Can India have it both ways?
  • This security footage provided by Sprig + Fern The Meadows, shows  a seal walking inside bar in Richmond, New Zealand, on Nov. 30, 2025. (Sprig + Fern The Meadows via AP)
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    A seal galumphs into a bar. The bartender says ‘Grab the salmon!’
  • Surveillance cameras are seen on a post near the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China, on November 5, 2024.
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    China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
  • A man harvests opium as he works in an opium field outside Loikaw, Kayah state, Myanmar, November 30, 2016.
    Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters/File
    Myanmar makes more meth than anywhere else. Opium production there also just hit a decade high, report says
  • 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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    Marine robotics firm will resume deep-sea search for MH370 plane that vanished a decade ago
  • The man allegedly swallowed a Fabergé James Bond Octopussy Egg locket.
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    Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé egg
  • A drone view shows traffic blocked by vehicles parked on a road to escape floodwaters in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province, Thailand on November 30, 2025.
    Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
    ‘Like a tsunami’: Asia reels from deadly cyclones and monsoon rains
  • Mainland Chinese tourists visit Sensoji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, on November 20, 2025.
    Louise Delmotte/AP
    Japanese fandom is having a moment in China – and not in a good way

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  • The logo of China's lifestyle-sharing social media platform Xiaohongshu, which translates as "red note" or "little red book," is displayed on a smartphone screen in Suqian, China, on September 11, 2025.
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    Taiwan bans popular Chinese social media app amid growing number of fraud cases
  • Hong Kong leader vows ‘justice’ as apartment inferno investigators focus on unsafe netting
  • Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test, in failed bid to catch SpaceX
  • Bamboo scaffolding, a centuries-old technique, comes under scrutiny after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades
  • Fact check: Trump delivers long list of false claims at Cabinet meeting

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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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  • Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa at the closing ceremony of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival. at the closing ceremony of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival. Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa at the closing ceremony of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival, in Moscow, Russia, on April 26, 2018.
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    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in ‘Mortal Kombat,’ dies at 75
  • 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
  • The real reason behind China’s fury toward Japan’s Takaichi
  • China warns there is ‘no market’ for Japanese seafood exports as spat over Taiwan comments escalates

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

  • A customer browses wine at a supermarket in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 9, 2020.
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    Thailand lifts ban on afternoon alcohol sales in time for year-end holiday festivities
  • Visiting Vientiane, the world’s youngest Communist capital
  • More than 1,100 killed as deadly storms cause flooding and landslides across Asia
  • GPS collars reveal ‘strange prey’ for some of Thailand’s last tigers
  • ‘Once-in-300-years’ rain leaves Thai city flooded and maternity ward stranded
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