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  • The University of Chicago campus on November 16, 2021.
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    Targeted abroad and shunned at home: Chinese overseas students caught in limbo
  • A chartered plane transporting South Korean workers detained in an ICE raid in Georgia last week arrives at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea on September 12, 2025.
    Kim Soo-hyeon/Reuters
    South Korean workers detained by ICE return home after saga that has rattled close US friendship
  • Instax series instant cameras are displayed in the Fujifilm booth during the CP+ 2025 show on February 27, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan.
    Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
    ‘Inconvenient,’ ‘retrograde’ and more popular than ever: The rise of instax cameras
  • This aerial photo shows the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea during an aerial reconnaissance flight on February 18, 2025.
    Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images
    Why is China setting up a nature reserve in one of the world’s most contested waterways?
  • South Korean President Lee Jae Myung takes questions during a press conference to mark 100 days in office at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, September 11, 2025.
    Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
    South Korea’s president says Georgia ICE raid could have ‘considerable impact’ on direct US investment from his country
  • Japan's Self-Defense Forces 1st Airborne Brigade conducts training on January 12, 2025, at Camp Narashino training area, in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, Japan.
    David Mareuil/Anadolu/Getty Images
    US and Japan begin exercises including missiles that China calls a threat
  • Choi Mal-ja holding a one-person protest in front of the Supreme Court in Seoul on May 2023.
    Korean Women’s Hot-Line
    South Korea overturns the 60-year-old conviction of elderly woman who was jailed for biting an alleged attacker’s tongue
  • Protesters celebrate at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government's various ministries and offices after it was set on fire during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 9, 2025.
    Prakash Timalsina/AP
    A parliament in flames, a leader toppled. Nepal’s Gen-Z protesters ask: What comes next?
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive for a reception in the Great Hall of People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on September 3, 2025.
    Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
    Kim has long sought recognition as a nuclear power. Xi may have just given it to him

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    Video Nepal’s Gen Z explain why they took to the streets 2:33
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    Video Military hardware on display as parade kicks off in Beijing 2:03
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    Video Xi, with Kim and Putin on his side, gather in Beijing for parade 1:24
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    Video Why sexual reproductive health rights workers target basketball courts in the Philippines 7:05
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    Video Protests paused in Indonesia amid security fears after deadly clashes and government concessions 1:10
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    Video Xi, Putin and Modi share a laugh at security summit 0:39
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    Video ‘It’s been unbelievable:’ Scottish brothers smash record for Pacific row 1:10
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    Video How Trump drives countries into China’s orbit 2:48
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  • A general view shows the oil refinery of the Lukoil company in Volgograd, Russia April 22, 2022.
    Reuters
    Trump issues an ultimatum for NATO countries on Russia sanctions
  • Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
  • Trump admin escalates space race with China, banning visa-holding scientists from working at NASA
  • UFC fighter Brian Ortega says he was ‘unconscious for about 30 minutes’ while trying to make weight for bout
  • LeBron James did not pen an op-ed for Chinese state media, according to reports

India

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  • A person holds The Times of India newspaper in New Delhi, India, on Friday.
    Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
    Toothpaste, McDonald’s and Pepsi in the crosshairs as US-India tariff tensions heat up
  • Should the US be worried? India’s Modi set for rare China trip after Trump’s tariff sting
  • One million stray dogs in India’s capital regain the right to roam after legal battle with nation’s top court
  • India tests nuclear capable missile a week ahead of Modi’s visit to China
  • Sudden, heavy rain in Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal kills more than 400 people
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    Courtesy Mayumi Maruyama
    My dad took his life when I was 12. His photo albums led me on a journey around the world for answers
  • 2 passengers injured after mid-air report of fire prompts emergency evacuation of United Airlines 737 in Japan
  • After the ‘craziest’ race of his life, 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus will make history at the World Athletics Championships
  • Japan PM Ishiba resigns after series of bruising election losses
  • Who is Japan’s ‘dragonfly’ prince, who could be the last emperor of the world’s oldest monarchy?

North Korea

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  • In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, watches a test of a new rocket engine at an undisclosed location, North Korea, Sep 8, 2025.
    KCNA/AP
    Emboldened Kim Jong Un oversees test of powerful new North Korean rocket engine days after China visit
  • Trump quietly preparing to travel next month to South Korea, where he could sit down with China’s leader
  • Visiting the US is about to get more expensive for foreign travelers
  • Xi Jinping asks the world to choose ‘war or peace.’ Which direction is China headed?
  • New York Times: Unsuccessful 2019 Navy SEAL mission left unarmed North Koreans dead

Pakistan

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  • Afghan volunteers and Taliban security personnel work to move injured people near a military helicopter following earthquakes in the Mazar Dara village of Nurgal, a district of the Kunar Province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025.
    Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
    Taliban calls for foreign help after deadly Afghanistan earthquake. Here’s what we know
  • Rescuers scramble to reach victims after hundreds killed as earthquake rocks eastern Afghanistan
  • What are cloudbursts and why might a warming world make them even more dangerous?
  • Pakistan’s deadly monsoon floods were worsened by climate crisis, study finds
  • The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

South Korea

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  • A Korean Air charter plane, carrying Korean workers detained in an immigration raid at a Georgia factory, leaves Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta bound for South Korea, Thursday, September 11, 2025.
    George Walker IV/AP
    Flight repatriating South Koreans detained by US immigration authorities departs Atlanta Thursday
  • Hyundai battery plant faces at least 2-3 month startup delay following raid, CEO says
  • Why doesn’t Google Maps work in one of Asia’s most developed, tourist-friendly countries?
  • South Korea just learned a deep lesson about dealing with Donald Trump
  • What we know about the agreement for detained South Korean workers to return home

Southeast Asia

  • Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok on September 9, 2025.
    Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
    Thailand’s top court orders former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to spend one year in jail
  • Former leader leaves Thailand in private jet days before court ruling that could see him imprisoned
  • Indonesia’s fury and deep resentment rages on despite crackdown. Here’s what to know
  • Indonesia president makes concessions after days of deadly protests forced him to scrap China summit trip
  • Mothers at 14. The fierce debate over sex education in a deeply Catholic nation
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