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People were rescued from buildings that collapsed under the weight of snow as extreme weather and blizzards gripped China. Millions of people across the country have been unable to travel in the run-up to the Chinese new year amid severe weather condit…
Foreign minister Penny Wong says Australian academic Yang Hengjun has received a suspended death sentence in China, an outcome that has ‘appalled’ the Australian government. ‘We understand that this can be committed to a life sentence following two yea…
A Japanese former prime minister and vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic party has been accused of sexism after making insulting comments about the foreign minister’s appearance and age.Taro Aso, who is 83, also referred to Yoko Kamikawa, 7…
A woman has been charged with illegal possession of a lion cub in Thailand after a video of the animal cruising in a Bentley went viral. The police ordered an investigation after the video gained more than 2.6m views online. Sawangjit Kosoognern was ch…
Six people have died after a fuel tanker exploded and set fire to buildings in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. Firefighters were among those killed after the truck carrying liquefied natural gas exploded. Fire engulfed several nearby buildings, inc…
India’s prime minister inaugurated a new temple at the site of a demolished 16th-century mosque that was torn down by a mob of Hindu nationalists. Babri Masjid was destroyed in 1992 during a rampage that killed 17 people in the city of Ayodhya. The new…
Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon after its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) made a successful landing on Friday. Hitoshi Kuninaka, the head of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, said: ‘We are also abl…
Rare footage obtained by a South Korean thinktank purports to show two 16-year-old secondary school students in North Korea sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for watching and distributing South Korean films and dramas. In the video, which has not be…
Pakistan has struck a village inside Iran, using rockets to attack what it said were Baloch militant separatist bases in response to strikes by Tehran that targeted sites within Pakistan’s borders. The decision to respond to Iran with retaliatory strik…
Video taken in a village in Iran, near Saravan, showed people standing in rubble surrounded by severely damaged buildings after retaliatory strikes by Pakistan against militants in Iran. The strikes come in response to earlier attacks by Tehran on site…
Pakistan has recalled its ambassador from Tehran after Iran launched airstrikes on Pakistani territory, apparently aimed at a Sunni militant group. Two children were killed and three others were injured in what Pakistan’s foreign ministry called an ‘il…
Taiwan has elected former vice president Lai Ching-te as the country’s new leader, delivering the sovereignty Democratic Progressive party an unprecedented third term. Lai served alongside former president Tsai Ing-wen from 2020. In his victory speech,…
At least four people have died in an apparent arson attack on a train in Bangladesh, adding to tension before parliamentary elections on Sunday. The fire on Friday raced through four coaches in the passenger train in what one police official called an …
A Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a coastguard plane in a catastrophic accident at Haneda airport in Tokyo. Five people on the coastguard aircraft died but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety using emergency slides minutes before t…