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US expected to ease Covid testing for arrivals from China
Improving situation in China prompts decision, say news reports quoting Biden administration officialsThe US i…
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‘Abusing state power’: China lashes out at US over TikTok bans
Beijing – which itself blocks access to Facebook, Twitter and many others – hits out at ban on Chinese-owned s…
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FBI lab will get to the ‘guts’ of Chinese balloon – White House
‘Electronics and optics’ among wreckage of suspected surveillance craft shot down off South Carolina after rec…
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Myanmar opium production surges since coup, UN finds
Conflict and economic hardship force farmers to rely on opium, with poppy cultivation rising by 33% in 2022Pro…
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Heavy snow in Japan kills at least 17
Many deaths caused by people falling from roofs or being buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off roo…
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Dozens of Chinese warplanes cross Taiwan median line
Beijing says drills also involving navy ships are a ‘firm response’ after US defence spending bill prioritised…
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Many killed after fuel tanker explodes in tunnel in Afghanistan
Blast in Salang Tunnel, a key route linking north and south of country, killed at least 19 people, says offici…
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South Korea’s truth commission to investigate dozens of foreign adoptions
Adoptees sent to Europe and the US say they were wrongly removed from their families as government in Seoul ac…
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New Zealand ‘suitcase’ murders: South Korea hands over 42-year-old suspect
Seoul says unidentified woman was transferred to New Zealand authorities on Monday eveningSouth Korea has extr…
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Taiwan goes to polls in closely watched local vote ahead of presidential election
China issue sidelined in local votes that will shed light on the major parties’ fortunes ahead of the 2024 pre…
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Five-year-old boy pulled from Indonesia earthquake rubble after two days
Azka, whose mother died in disaster, probably survived due to being protected by a mattress, while 40 people r…
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Cambodian wildlife official among eight charged in US with smuggling endangered monkeys
Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a confe…
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North Korea launches ballistic missile, threatens ‘fiercer’ military response
The latest missile test comes on the back of expanded military exercises between the US and South KoreaKorean …
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New Zealand ‘suitcase murders’: South Korean court approves suspect’s extradition
South Korea’s justice minister will make final call on extradition of woman to New Zealand to face murder char…
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Seoul crowd crush: local police offices raided in investigation
Eleven emergency callers used Korean word for ‘crushed to death’ 13 times hours before incidentSouth Korea’s n…