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  • A police vehicle passes by a budget hotel in downtown Davao City, Philippines, on Wednesday December 17, 2025.
    Manman Dejeto/AP
    Bondi attack suspects had no visitors and barely left hotel during month-long Philippines stay, employee says
  • Soldiers of the 58th Artillery Command mobolize the HIMARS missile system to a tactical position, as part of the ongoing Han Kuang military exercise, in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 12, 2025.
    Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Rockets, howitzers and suicide drones: US and Taiwan announce one of their biggest-ever arms deals
  • The rare Galaxy Frog (melanobatrachus indicus) from the Western Ghat mountain range of southern India.
    Shivang Mehta/Moment RF/Getty Images
    Unethical photographers have become a threat to these tiny, starlit frogs
  • Supporters of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) wave the party flags during the first day of campaign for the upcoming general election, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.(AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
    Aung Shine Oo/AP
    Myanmar’s military junta charge hundreds with breaking election law as voting date nears
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  • Blue snake in Zootopia 2.
    Disney
    Gary from Zootopia 2 is a hit in China. Now young people are buying venomous pit vipers
  • The Yarlung Tsangpo river in Xizang, China, on November 5, 2025
    He Huawen/VCG/AP
    China is building the world’s most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas. It remains shrouded in secrecy
  • Claire Lai, daughter of media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai who was found guilty in a Hong Kong court of national security charges, reacts during an interview in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 15, 2025.
    Kevin Mohatt/Reuters
    Daughter of Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai tells CNN she is devastated by guilty verdict handed down to her father
  • Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the plenary session of the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bangkok on November 2, 2019. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)
    Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
    Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi ‘in good health’ after son raises alarm

Videos

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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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    Omer Meron/GPO
    Video Israeli PM says Australia poured “oil on the flames of antisemitism” through inaction 1:22
  • CNN affiliate Seven Network Australia shared an interview with the cousin of the man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman.
    • Video 0:52
    Seven Network Australia
    Video “He’s a hero, 100%,’ says cousin of man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman 0:52
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    Video Rabbi says his nephew was hiding while bullets whizzed by in Australia shooting 2:48
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    Video Gunshots reported at Bondi Beach in Sydney 0:25
  • Parents of girl bullied online react to social media ban
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    Sky News Australia
    Video Parents of girl bullied online react to social media ban 1:38
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China

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  • A loophole, known as de minimis, that allowed packages worth less than $800 to enter the United States duty-free was closed earlier this year. The loophole contributed to the proliferation of Americans' purchases on sites like Shein.
    Tamara Merino/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
    $1 billion in de minimis tariff revenue has been collected since loophole closed
  • Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence
  • How Trump’s tariffs forced China to pivot – and export more
  • Trump’s security strategy is making a hard pivot on China. Why now?
  • US Navy says it recovered two aircraft that crashed into South China Sea

India

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  • Tourists visit the Taj Mahal at sunrise in Agra, India, on October 18, 2025.
    PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/AFP via Getty Images
    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
  • 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
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Japan

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  • Ichigo Sayaka
    Deonté Lee/BFA.com/Sukeban
    These Japanese wrestlers throw down in latex and glitter
  • Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan
  • United flight to Tokyo returns to Dulles after losing power in an engine and igniting brush around runway
  • ‘On bear patrol’: Inside Japan’s fightback against a surge of deadly bear attacks
  • World War II Medal of Honor recipient to return home for burial, 80 years after his death

North Korea

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  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un embraces a soldier during a welcoming ceremony for members of the 528th Engineer Regiment after they returned from an overseas mission, at the April 25 Cultural and Tourism Center in Pyongyang, North Korea on December 12, 2025, in this picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 13, 2025.
    KCNA/Reuters
    North Korea’s Kim Jong Un hails troops returning from Russia
  • 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

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.
    Stringer/Reuters/File
    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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  • An elderly woman interacts with an AI-powered Hyodol plushie robot companion.
    Courtesy Hyodol
    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

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    Illustration by Ian Berry/CNN
    The Kremlin’s brazen tactics: Russia’s shadow fleet is doubling as a spy asset, intelligence sources say
  • Celebrated ex-CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
  • Herbal compresses have been used for thousands of years. Researchers in Thailand are exploring the science behind them
  • The Philippines’ long battle against Islamist extremism is back in the spotlight following Bondi attack
  • Bondi terror suspects driven by ‘Islamic State ideology,’ recently traveled to Philippine island wracked by extremism
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