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Police arrest 20-year-old man after attack at girl’s family home near Delhi that left her in critical condition with 95% burns
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Of the five refugees transferred to Cambodia under resettlement deal, three have abandoned the country and risked returning home despite ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
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Michael Warren, who downloaded more than 1000 images of child abuse while working in child protection, will serve his sentence on the tiny Pacific island
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Pyongyang has issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate ‘pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice’
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Resident who found ‘flaperon’ last July discovers another piece of wreckage which has yet to be analysed but could come from Malaysia Airlines flight
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Cheung Chi-ping arrives back home two days after authorities released his boss, Lui Por, but three publishers remain on the mainland
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A greater one-horned rhino has been successfully moved to a new home in Bardia national park. The healthy adult male is the first of 30 rhinos to be ‘translocated’ from Chitwan national park over the next two years to secure a second, viable breeding population
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A ‘nomadic museum’ in the heart of Mumbai hopes to change attitudes towards the communities that live there
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The remarkable tale of Frank Terpil, former intelligence agent, fugitive from US justice and a 53-year jail term, who has died in Havana
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Road blocks and random vehicle checks return seven years after war ended in effort to combat surge in drug smuggling and serious crime
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Each day 62-year-old retired factory worker Dai Shuqin goes to the Malaysia Airlines offices in Beijing to deliver a letter demanding to know what happened to her sister
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During a television broadcast, North Korea has strongly denounced annual military drills between the US and South Korea, which are scheduled to begin on Monday.
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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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A summary of the state’s position after Kim Jong-un announced North Korea is ready to fire its nuclear weapons ‘at any time’
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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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