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De facto embassy opening in Vilnius defies pressure from BeijingTaiwan has opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania in a diplomatic breakthrough for the island, brushing aside Beijing’s strong opposition to the move which again expressed its anger and wa…
Fenster’s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jailThe US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in military-ruled Myanmar, just days after a closed court sentenced him to 11 years in…
Japanese media report man in Batman villain costume stabbed people and started a fireA man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume has been arrested for attempted murder after a knife and fire attack on a train in Tokyo, according to Japanese media, with at …
Haibatullah Akhundzada said to have visited religious school in Kandahar, confounding rumours of his deathThe Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has made a rare public appearance in the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban officials announ…
Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be ‘the first of many’ in coming monthsA group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban’s return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgen…
Biden administration announces plan after meeting between US national security adviser and China’s top diplomat The US president, Joe Biden, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are planning to meet by video link before the end of the year, a senio…
Latest of several launches within a month signals further ramp-up of hostility towards neighbours North Korea has fired what it described as a hypersonic missile towards the sea off its east coast, as Pyongyang repeated a call for Washington and Seoul …
Afghanistan’s new rulers say the existing accredited UN ambassador no longer represents the countryThe Taliban have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s former United Nations ambassador and are asking to speak at the UN general assembly, a UN sp…
Kim Jong-un pictured waving from balcony, but no ballistic missiles on show at Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung SquareNorth Korea paraded goose-stepping soldiers but no ballistic missiles in its capital overnight, in a celebration of the nation’s 73rd anniversa…
The nation’s Delta outbreak continues to grow, with Auckland likely to remain in lockdown for at least another fortnightNew Zealand’s Covid-19 outbreak continues to spread, with 83 cases announced on Sunday – a new daily high for this outbreak.All but …
The country, which was due to emerge from lockdown on Tuesday, now has 72 active casesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday as the outbreak of the Delta variant continued to grow, bringing associated in…
Three people were presumed dead after a mudslide swept away a house in Okaya City, as millions have been urged to evacuateTorrential rain triggered a mudslide and more floods across Japan on Sunday, leaving three people presumed dead and forcing the ev…
Visit comes as China tightens control over region’s Buddhist culture and invests heavily in infrastructureThe Chinese leader has made his first visit to Tibet as president as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region’s traditional Buddhist…
Previously held up as a model of how to combat pandemic, country was slow to start vaccine rollout and is now reporting record daily casesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level yet in the Seoul m…
Fung Wai-kong is seventh senior figure from publication to be arrested in two weeksA senior journalist of the now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was arrested at the airport while attempting to leave the city.Fung Wai-kong was bel…