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  • A man (out of focus) walks past bottles of Martell-branded brandy on a supermarket shelf

    China puts tariffs on EU brandy in escalating trade row with Brussels

  • Omar Abdullah

    Opposition Congress party wins power in Indian-administered Kashmir

    Narendra Modi’s BJP loses first election since stripping the region of its autonomy and statehood
  • The lawyer Mark Christopher Tolentino with Apollo Quiboloy’s candidacy papework.

    ‘Son of God’ pastor registers from jail to run for Philippines senate election

    Apollo Quiboloy is also wanted in US on charges of sex trafficking, including of children, and bulk cash smuggling

  • Indian police charge man over doctor’s rape and murder in Kolkata hospital

  • Mountaineers who were stranded in Himalayas describe loss of their gear

  • Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff

  • Philippines: Duterte to run as mayor despite inquiry into his drugs crackdown

  • Pakistan bans Pashtun group as government cracks down on dissent

  • Elephant sanctuary evacuated after severe flooding in Thailand – video

  • Biden to visit Angola as global powers vie for African influence

Asia Pacific

  • Missing man Tom Phillips and his three children have been seen in bushland in New Zealand’s Waikato

    New Zealand
    Fugitive father filmed with children in NZ wilderness three years after disappearing

  • Three elephants stuck in rising flood waters at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai

    Thailand
    Rescued elephants drown as heavy flooding hits Thai tourist hub Chiang Mai

  • Wiwwaeo Sriaoun, mother of Thai hostage Watchara, who was kidnapped by Hamas

    Israel-Gaza: one year on
    ‘I have to keep going’: mother of Thai worker kidnapped by Hamas prays for his return

  • HMNZS Manawanui

    New Zealand
    New Zealand navy ship Manawanui sinks off Samoa

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South & central Asia

  • People walk amid wood and other debris strewn across the ground next to some collapsed huts

    Global development
    Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup

  • The Baloch Liberation Army claims it carried out a vehicle-borne attack targeting Chinese nationals near Karachi airport in southern Pakistan

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    Pakistan
    Police investigating after explosion near Karachi airport – video

  • Paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road by the site of an explosion

    Pakistan
    Two killed in explosion near Karachi airport targeting Chinese nationals

  • An Indian man with a fishing net by the sea, with a power plant in the distance behind him

    Global development
    The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers’ fight with a giant

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Pictures & video

  • Storm blows away store equipment in Taiwan as Typhoon Krathon hits – video

  • Violent clashes between protesters and police take place in Karachi over Hezbollah leader's death

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    Violent clashes in Pakistan after Hezbollah leader's assassination – video

    Violent clashes between protesters and police take place in Karachi over Hezbollah leader's death
  • Officials expect death toll to rise as flood waters inundate Kathmandu after highest rainfall reportedly since 1970

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    Flooding and landslides caused by non-stop rain kill 148 in Nepal – video

    Officials expect death toll to rise as flood waters inundate Kathmandu after highest rainfall reportedly since 1970
  • A spokesperson for Indonesia's military said Mehrtens was in good health and showed no signs of PTSD, but had lost a lot of weight

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    New Zealand pilot speaks to family after release by West Papua rebels – video

  • The baby pygmy hippo has become a viral sensation on social media worldwide

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    Thai zoo moves to patent image of viral baby hippo Moo Deng – video

  • Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up when the 20kg snake attacked her

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    Large python filmed coiled around woman in Thailand – video

  • At least 12 people have died, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured, according to the Lebanese health minister

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    CCTV captures pagers simultaneously exploding across Lebanon – video report

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