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Hubs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, as well as website of national airline, showed message criticising sovereignty claims in South China Sea
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A tornadic waterspout is seen on the southern coast of Hainan province, southern China, on Thursday
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Josh Ptasznyk, a 26-year-old accountant from Wollongong, and his friend Nick paid $129 for three raffle tickets and beat 75,000 others from 150 countries
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Regular random checks are announced to prevent further decay of Unesco site being destroyed by tourists and locals
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The Long Read: How a jailed former banker and a lone British journalist broke a story that shook the world
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Coffins taken to Nusa Kambangan in preparation for firing squad deaths, as country carries out first executions since Bali Nine pair and six others last year
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Letters: The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Kashmir is only the most recent in the three decades of militarisation since the 1990s
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Floods in Assam submerge Kaziranga national park, home to the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceros
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Himalayan state of Uttarakhand commits £28m for scientists to finally discover life-giving herb mentioned in ancient Hindu text
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The mother of a Pakistani celebrity murdered in a so-called ‘honour’ killing said her son strangled his sister after being taunted by his friends over her behaviour
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In a recorded phone call, PetroSaudi director Patrick Mahony urges Javier Justo’s wife, Laura, to go public and exonerate the Malaysian prime minister of any part in the theft of billions of dollars from the Malaysian government
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Amateur video shot on Tuesday shows floods in Butwal, a village in the the Rupandehi district of Nepal
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At least 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a knife attack at a facility for the disabled in Sagamihara, Japan
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More than 285,000 people have signed a petition calling for the closure of an aquarium in southern China
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The Chinese foreign minister says the country will not accept a ruling against it in a key international legal case over strategic reefs
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Tokyo turmoil: race to rule world's largest city mired in sex scandal and misogyny