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Three Hong Kong Alliance members, including prominent pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung, face up to six months in jailThree former members of a Hong Kong group that organised annual vigils to mark China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown have been found …
Cyclone Kevin passed over the capital Port Vila less than three days after Cyclone Judy cut power in the cityA state of emergency was declared in Vanuatu as category 4 Cyclone Kevin brought gale-force winds and torrential rain to the Pacific nation bat…
Prime minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged attempts by China to meddle in elections but has resisted launching a public inquiryCanadian opposition parties stepped up their push for a broad public inquiry into alleged foreign election interference, …
Leader says agriculture needs ‘fundamental transformation’ and makes hitting grain targets a priority as country isolated by sanctions struggles North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged government officials to engineer a “fundamental transformation” i…
Concerns about energy shortages drive increase as projects progress at ‘extraordinary’ speedChina approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity last year, four times higher than a year earlier and the highest since 201…
Pyongyang confirms rapid launch drill after warning of strong response to upcoming US-South Korea military exercisesNorth Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said, after Pyongyang w…
Recovery of the wreckage could give the United States insight into China’s spying capabilities, officials sayThe US military said it is searching for remnants of the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon it shot down, in a dramatic spy saga that has f…
Four people have been killed as authorities warn severe weather conditions will continue in New Zealand’s north islandHeavy rainfall continued to batter New Zealand’s north island, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads, with the death…
Residents told that rising cases mean they must stay home for five days and do frequent temperature checksAuthorities in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, Se…
Deaths in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan due to kidney injury associated with contaminated medicines, the WHO saidThe World Health Organization has called for “immediate and concerted action” to protect children from contaminated medicines after …
The New Zealand Labour party is racing to find Jacinda Ardern’s replacement, with votes among MPs set to begin on SundayNew Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, will step down no later than 7 February after her shock resignation on Thursday in whi…
Anju Khatiwada joined Yeti Airlines in 2010, four years after her husband died while piloting a plane for the same airlineThe co-pilot of the Yeti Airlines flight that crashed on Sunday in Nepal was the widow of a pilot who flew for the same airline, a…
Travellers leave cities for countryside amid warnings for most vulnerable and huge increase in official coronavirus death tollLuggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays t…
Dmitry Medvedev accuses Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to US after Joe Biden meetingFormer Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the US and suggested he should ritually d…
Data from the health commission for central Henan suggests 88 million people in the province may have had the virusAlmost 90% of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the …