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One person has been killed after more than 200 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a bridge in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou in heavy fog, according to rescuers and CCTV footage from the state broadcaster.Many of those injured were trapped in their …
A Kabul university professor appears to tear up his university diplomas on live TV in Afghanistan. In a clip from Tolo TV, the man, identified by Afghan journalists as university lecturer Ismail Mashal, says in Dari: “If my sister and my mother can’t s…
At least 17 people have been killed and more than 90 injured in heavy snows that also left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials have saidPowerful winter fronts have dumped heavy snow in northern regions of Japan since last wee…
People have marched outside Kabul University in Afghanistan’s capital against the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from university. Women marched the streets shouting ‘everyone or no one’ after the ban was announced by the higher education min…
A protest broke out at a university in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from higher education. Men and women held signs and chanted outside the school on the day the ban started. The de…
The HTMS Sukhothai warship suffered an engine malfunction and capsized about 32km (20 miles) from Bang Saphan District in central Thailand. An overnight rescue mission in bad weather secured 73 of the 106 people aboard, with the remaining 33 missi…
At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, a local official said. The Salang tunnel, about 80 miles north of Kabul, was built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It …
Two of the dead found locked in an embrace, officials say, with 12 still missing after the disaster north of the capital Kuala LumpurA thunderous crush of soil and debris killed 21 people at a campground in Malaysia and rescuers dug through the mud in …
Mount Semeru, Indonesia’s highest volcano, erupted on Sunday, spewing ash nine miles (15 kilometres) into the air and forcing local authorities to evacuate almost 2,000 people from nearby villages. Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said mas…
The former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who led his country out of isolation after the crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, has died aged 96. Jiang died from l…
Protesters scuffled with police on Tuesday night, according to witnesses and footage. Video shared on social media shows security personnel in hazmat suits forming shoulder-to-shoulder ranks and taking cover under riot shields to make their way down a …
Police in major cities across China, including Beijing and Shanghai, have increased efforts to crackdown on zero-Covid protests. According to footage circulating on social media, police have made at least one arrest. Police are patrolling areas where p…
China’s foreign ministry has defended the Communist party’s zero-Covid policy amid rare protests within the country.The foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, paused for a long time when asked by a reporter if China would reconsider the policy giv…
Dozens of protesters gathered in Hong Kong in solidarity with anti-lockdown demonstrations in mainland China. The protest was held to commemorate the 10 people who died in a fire in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region, and show solidarity with the p…
People opposed to China’s strict Covid restrictions are protesting in cities across the country, holding blank pieces of paper as a symbol against censorship. The protests, triggered by a deadly apartment fire in the far west of the country, are taking…