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  • Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, July 9, 2025.
    Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
    South Korea special prosecutor indicts former President Yoon on charges of aiding an enemy state
  • Residents line up to register at an evacuation center as they prepare for Super Typhoon Fung-Wong, Manila, Philippines, on November 9, 2025.
    Lisa Marie David/Reuters
    More than 1.4 million evacuated as second typhoon in a week slams into the Philippines
  • Search and rescue operations are underway for the boat, which left Myanmar with hundreds of people on board.
    Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency/Reuters
    Several Myanmar migrants dead, hundreds feared missing after boat capsizes near Malaysia
  • People's Cafe in Harbin
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    A Chinese coffee shop called itself People’s Cafe. That name got it roasted.
  • Shah Rukh Khan at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
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    The last of India’s mythic superstars
  • A drone view shows cars piled up after being swept away in floods brought on by Typhoon Kalmaegi which piled up at a subdivision in Bacayan, Cebu City, Philippines, on November 5, 2025.
    Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
    Typhoon Kalmaegi slams into Vietnam after unleashing deadly destruction in the Philippines
  • Remoras, also known as sucker fish, clinging to humpback whales off the coast of Australia in footage captured by scientists.
    Whales and Climate Program/Olaf Meynecke/AP
    Rare footage shows sucker fish as they whale-surf in the ocean’s wildest joyride
  • Ryan Chen in Chongqing.
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    ‘China’s Trump’ told us how he went viral. And yes, it started as a bet
  • Police officers and military personnel stand guard at the gate of a school where explosions reportedly occurred, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025.
    Dita Alangkara/AP
    Multiple explosions shake mosque at Indonesian high school injuring at least 55

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  • German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warns of the growing threat of Russian space activities during the BDI Space Congress in Berlin on September 25.
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    UK and Germany have accused Russia of threatening their satellites. Here’s what that means
  • Trump approves pardon for former NYPD officer convicted in Chinese government scheme
  • The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions
  • The world’s best hotel for 2025 is a waterfront skyscraper
  • China’s latest aircraft carrier enters fleet as naval competition with the US heats up

India

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  • A layer of smog can be seen in the early hours of the morning at Wazirabad, in New Delhi, India, on October 18, 2025.
    Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
    After festival of lights, New Delhi plunged into toxic darkness and world’s most polluted air
  • Trump claimed India had agreed to stop buying Russian oil. New Delhi says it knows nothing about it
  • A newborn baby was found buried alive. The reason may have been her gender
  • Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists
  • India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump
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  • Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) soldiers help transport and set up bear traps in Kazuno City, Akita prefecture, on November 5, 2025. Portions of this photo were blurred by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
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    Facing a spike in deadly bear attacks, Japan turns to the military and drones that bark
  • From hunger to luxury: The story behind the world’s most expensive rice
  • Japan’s new leader Takaichi says she wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
  • China’s Xi in the limelight at Pacific summit with Trump conspicuous by his absence
  • Bad behavior, overcrowded streets: In Asia’s travel hot spots, overtourism is creating European-style problems

North Korea

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  • In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, back third left, offers his condolences in front of the coffin of Kim Yong Nam at an undisclosed location in North Korea on November 4, 2025.
    Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP
    North Korea’s longtime ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died, Pyongyang says
  • Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?
  • Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China
  • Trump has departed Asia without meeting Kim Jong Un. North Koreans don’t seem to care
  • With a new leader – and Trump in town – Japanese families whose loved ones were abducted by North Korea have fresh hope

Pakistan

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  • Afghan Defence Minister Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob, centre left, shakes hands with Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif after reaching a ceasefire deal during talks in Doha, Qatar.
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    Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to new ceasefire after more than a week of deadly clashes
  • With rare earths, deft diplomacy (and ample flattery), Pakistan shows how to deal with Trump 2.0
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan agree ceasefire after trading their deadliest fire in years. Here’s what we know
  • Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes in worst fighting since Taliban returned to power
  • The making of an al Qaeda fighter: Spin Ghul’s journey from the streets of Saudi Arabia to jihadi training camps

South Korea

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  • President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Gimhae Air Force Base in Busan, South Korea, on October 30, 2025.
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    The White House has shared images of Xi Jinping that most Chinese don’t see at home
  • Three billionaires went out for chicken and beer, and paid for everyone’s meal
  • The US and China are close to a landmark trade agreement. Here are the wildest moments leading up to it
  • Trump and Xi are set for a high-stakes summit. A breakdown of each leader’s agenda
  • Hyundai hoped to return skilled South Korean workers to the US after the ICE raid. Trump just opened the door

Southeast Asia

  • Miss Mexico Fatima Bosch on stage during the official Miss Universe 2025 welcome event in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 5.
    Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/Shutterstock
    ‘No one can shut our voice’: Miss Universe Mexico confronts mistreatment
  • Malaysian court rules police and government responsible for pastor and activist abduction
  • The unlikely story of how a Russian pool champion became a star of Team USA
  • Typhoon Kalmaegi kills at least 85 in the Philippines, heads toward Vietnam
  • Trump is wielding effective global power, but his foreign policy victory laps are misleading
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