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Video shared on social media shows the moment BBC journalist Edward Lawrence was arrested by Chinese authorities while covering an anti-lockdown protest in Shanghai. Lawrence was dragged away by police shouting “Call the Consulate, now.” Protests over …
Demonstrations have broken out in cities and university campuses across China amid widespread anger at Covid lockdowns. The wave of civil disobedience was triggered by an apartment fire on Friday in which at least 10 people died in the west Xinjiang re…
Protests have broken out in China’s far western Xinjiang region, in the latest demonstration of public anger towards the country’s zero-Covid policy and strict lockdown rules. Crowds chanted ‘End the lockdown’ at hazmat-suited guards following a fire i…
Drone footage shows the extreme damage to homes, in many cases reduced to rubble, after an earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday. Thousands of people have been displaced as a result, while the death toll has risen to more than 270. T…
Footage shows security and police officers in China clashing with staff protesting over working conditions and pay at the world’s biggest factory for iPhones, in Zhengzhou, China. Footage shows police beating protestors with poles amid riots. The Foxco…
Rescuers pulled five-year-old Azka from the rubble on the third day of a search for about 40 people missing in the earthquake-struck town of Cianjur in Indonesia on Wednesday. Azka was among the survivors of a deadly earthquake that struck th…
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday, causing hundreds of deaths and destroying thousands of homes. Officials have said many of the dead are schoolchildren who were in class when the quake struck. Rescuers are r…
The earthquake struck the main island of Java killing at least 162 people, many of them children, and injured hundreds more. In the town of Cianjur, about 75 km southeast of the Indonesia capital Jakarta, hundreds of victims were treated in a hospital …
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 has shaken Java, Indonesia’s main island, killing at least 162 people. Dozens of buildings were destroyed. The earthquake centred in the Cianjur region, about 60 miles from the capital, Jakarta, at a depth of 6 mil…
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China’s president, Xi Jinping, confronted the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, at the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia. The Chinese leader accused Trudeau of ‘leaking’ details of their diplomatic conversations to the media. ‘That is not a…
Protesters poured on to the streets of the southern Chinese city in a rare demonstration against strict Covid-19 restrictions. Video circulating on social media shows crowds of people marching through the Haizhu district, breaking Covid barriers …
A song from Hong Kong’s protest movement seems to have been played in place of the Chinese national anthem during a rugby sevens tournament in South Korea. Hong Kong said it ‘strongly deplores and opposes’ the playing of a song associated with ‘vi…
Thousands of people gathered near Seoul’s city hall on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush in Itaewon last weekend. There were calls for the president, Yoon Suk-yeol, to step down after law enforcement officials con…
Imran Khan has shared details of the assassination attempt against him Wazirabad. Khan sustained bullet wounds to his legs during a rally in the eastern Punjab province. The former PM confirmed that there were two shooters and accused four individuals …