Asia
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David Cameron increases size of mission for first time since withdrawal began, delaying final departure until 2017
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Multiple deaths reported over three days, with queue stretching back 13 miles as millions headed home to celebrate Eid
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Officials say Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence will be quickly deployed to counter North Korea’s missile threat
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Record price paid by shop owner for about 30 fruits of the Ruby Roman variety, which is considered a status symbol
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Twenty-four-year-old legal assistant was taken away as part of nationwide crackdown on human rights lawyers
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Relatives of autocratic PM control economy’s most profitable sectors from mining to gambling and property, according to findings of Global Witness project
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Thousands of soldiers on standby as super typhoon nears coast, potentially delivering up to 500mm of rainfall
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Young women are challenging traditional roles to train as taxi drivers, part of a programme to empower children from marginalised families
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Loose canon: Driven out of Pakistan, the Muslim Ahmadiyya community now have their global headquarters in the UK. They deserve our protection and respect
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Perumal Murugan, who had stopped writing following death threats and calls for his prosecution, told he should return ‘to what he is best at’ and write
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In a press conference Wednesday, Barack Obama announced that he will leave 8,400 troops in Afghanistan, much more than the 5,500 originally planned
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One of the last remaining nomadic groups of reindeer herders has been tracked down and captured on camera in northern Mongolia
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Six militants and two police officers were killed and 13 people were rescued
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Twevle people, including two foreign nationals, have been rescued following the decision by Dhaka city police to storm a restaurant in which an unknown number of people had been taken hostage
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Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka surround a cafe where eight to nine gunmen have taken multiple hostages
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A house topples down a small hill after a mudslide in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The area had been evacuated the previous day, so there were no reported injuries
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North Korea calls US sanctions against Kim Jong-un a 'declaration of war'