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The impounding of a North Korean vessel by the Philippines on Friday, follows strict new United Nations sanctions, says coastguard spokesman commander Armand Balilo
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The 6,830-tonne cargo ship Jin Teng will not be allowed to leave Subic port after Manila opts to enforce sanctions imposed after missile tests
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All 22 buoys failed because of vandalism or lack of funds, officials say, making it difficult to see if magnitude-7.8 quake triggered tsunami
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Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee will be released “in the coming few days”, say authorities, but Chinese investigations will continue
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PNG prime minister says ‘I will find out why it is not’, responding to Medecins Sans Frontieres report urging certification of act passed last year, then stalled
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Launches follow unanimous security council resolution imposing toughest restrictions on trade in decades against regime over nuclear and missile tests
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Women's rights and gender equality A Girl in the River's Oscar win gives Pakistan chance to end honour killings
Yasmeen HassanWith a law change imminent, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film about an attempted honour killing in Pakistan creates a perfect opportunity to end impunity for relatives who murder women seen as a source of family dishonour -
A colony of people who fled their homes because of discrimination nestles alongside a hospital trying to eradicate the disease. But the stigma against deformity runs deep
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Setback for relations between Delhi and Washington as a long-planned visit by the agency is scuppered
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Mustafa Kamal says Altaf Hussain’s party has taken money from Indian intelligence and claims he ‘stays drunk for days’
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South Korea’s defence ministry said its northern neighbour fired short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast
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Malaysia’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai says there is a ‘high probability’ that debris found on a Mozambique beach belonged to a Boeing 777, the same type of aircraft as flight MH370
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Footage of the moment an unrestrained toddler in China falls out of the open backdoor of a minivan, tumbling on to a busy road
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For the first time since he was detained on 2 January at Pyongyang International airport, US student Otto Warmbier appears in front of the media
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Joint commissioner of police Ashutosh Dumrare says that a local 35-year old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family, outside India’s financial capital of Mumbai, on Saturday
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China to build second railway line into Tibet