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Police in Bangladesh have arrested more than 10,000 people and banned a major opposition party as part of a crackdown on dissent after weeks of protests. The country has been in turmoil since a mass student movement began against quotas for government …
The storm has made landfall in Taiwan, unleashing torrential rain and strong gusts that have claimed at least three lives. Typhoon Gaemi also exacerbated rains in the Philippines, flooding the capital, Manila, and nearby cities, forcing authorities to …
The pilot is the sole survivor after a plane carrying 19 people skidded off the runway and caught fire in Nepal. The Saurya Airlines plane was en route to Pokhara for technical maintenance. Footage of Tribhuvan airport in Kathmandu shows thick smoke bi…
The country’s supreme court scaled back quotas on civil service jobs, which previously allocated 30% to veterans and relatives of those who fought in the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, after widespread student-led protests and violent clashes in …
Heavy rainfall flooded streets and triggered landslides in China’s south-western municipality of Chongqing, the state broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday. In Kaizhou district, more than 450 people were displaced as water levels from the Nan and Puli…
Narendra Modi has been driven in a golf cart by Vladimir Putin. Modi is in Russia for talks with the Russian president, the first time India’s prime minister has visited Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022India PM Modi t…
Scores of people are feared to have been crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in the northern Indian city of Hathras. The incident happened as people tried to leave the venue where crowds had gathered to celebrate the Hindu deity Shiva. Dist…
A space rocket operated by a Chinese private company crashed and exploded into flames near a city on Sunday. It soared straight up into the air before losing power and falling back to earth, hitting nearby forested hills.The first stage of the Tianlong…
On Tuesday, China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission achieved a milestone as its re-entry capsule successfully landed in Inner Mongolia, retrieving the first samples from the moon’s far side. The capsule made its touchdown at 2.06 pm Beijing time, bringing back…
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, took the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, for a ride in an Aurus, a Russian-made luxury limousine. Footage released by Russian state TV showed the two leaders driving around what appeared to be a park in Pyongyan…
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, received an official welcome at a ceremony at Pyongyang’s main square before talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. Putin’s visit to North Korea is his first in 24 years and comes amid growing concerns a…
Narendra Modi claims he has won a third term in office but projections show his party is unlikely to win an outright majority. Nonetheless, India’s prime minister said:’Citizens have expressed full confidence in BJP and NDA,’ referring to the Bharatiya…
Fourteen people have been found guilty of ‘conspiracy to subvert state power’ by holding unofficial election primaries in 2020, in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial.Two defendants, the former district councillor Lawrence Lau Wai-chung and the…
Hundreds of Indian farmers who have been camping for more than 100 days between the Punjab and Haryana states to demand better prices for their crops have been enduring a savage heat wave sweeping swathes of northern India. Temperatures in Delhi, not f…