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Several more students were missing and injured after a blaze swept through the building during the night
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Pakistan accuses US of not informing prime minister about attack beforehand as Mullah Akhtar Mansoor death could deepen fractures in insurgent group
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There have been several deaths and serious injuries after Mount Sinabung unleashed a series of eruptions on Saturday
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Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly has spent most of the past two decades in detention due to his relentless pursuit of democracy and religious freedom
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Execution carried out, say police, after court denies appeal by Kho Jabing, sentenced to death in 2010 for murder
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Harvard researchers say leaked documents show bureaucrats fabricate positive posts to distract from criticism of government
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Concerns grow that Buddhist extremism may flourish unless country’s new democratic leaders counter discrimination against minorities
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Alyssa Azar, 19, becomes youngest Australian to climb highest mountain but Melbourne academic Dr Maria Strydom dies of altitude sickness
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Up to 500,000 people transferred to shelters as cyclone causes landslides, house collapses and embankments to break in Chittagong
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Torrential rains continue to deluge island nation, with hundreds of thousands in temporary shelters
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Residents of India’s north-western cities struggle to cope as record temperatures hit the country
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Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell themselves for £2 a time
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Tucked away in south-western Sichuan province, a private collector stands virtually alone in exhibiting relics from the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution
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Timothy Allen is the first outsider to walk with a Kazakh family on their spring migration. The Kazakhs of western Mongolia are known for hunting with eagles and each year between February and April about 200 families make the 90-mile trip across the Altai mountains
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Staff working at the Kim Jong-suk silk mill in Pyongyang. Foreign press are regularly taken around the factory, named after North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung’s first wife
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Rodrigo Duterte has claimed victory in the presidential elections in the Philippines.
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Foreign journalists brought into the country to cover the biggest political event in North Korea in decades were taken on a visit to Kim Jong-suk silk mill in Pyongyang during a press tour
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Barack Obama in Vietnam as US seeks to turn former enemy into major trade market