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Government says perpetrators attempted ‘to create chaos and confusion’ but that terrorism was not behind the fatal explosions
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Letters: An inhumane deterrence policy is the foundation stone of the Australian points system much lauded by leading leave campaigners during the EU referendum
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Thai police on alert for further attacks after multiple explosions on Thursday and Friday leave at least four people dead
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Coordinated bomb and arson incidents in southern Thailand, home to an insurgency, could signal new phase of confrontation
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Two alleged Chinese drug criminals among those killed, says reports, and warden seriously injured in exchange of fire with prisoners
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Raja Waqar was warned in phone calls to stop pursuing information about Bradford woman Samia Shahid who died in Pakistan
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Migrant Bangladeshi workers travel from far and wide to earn $10 a day recycling aluminium. Photographer AM Ahmad witnesses their toil
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Militants have captured territory a few miles from city in Helmand, blown up bridges and repeatedly cut off main road
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The Maoist insurgency has displaced hundreds of thousands of Indians, but the country is doing little to help – or even register – them
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Four people have died and 35 are injured after multiple bombings in five separate locations in Thailand.
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President Rodrigo Duterte calls the US ambassador to the Philippines, Philip Goldberg, a ‘gay son of a whore’
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Irom Chanu Sharmila, the Indian hunger striker, ends her 16-year-fast on Tuesday in Manipur
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Japan’s Emperor Akihito has said that his health is failing and hinted that he may abdicate
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A bomb blast at a Pakistani hospital killed dozens of people and wounded others on Monday in Quetta
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Performers dressed as Pikachu, the Pokémon character, in the Pikachu parade in Yokohama
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Japanese Emperor Akihito says that he’s worried that his age may make it difficult for him to fully carry out his duties
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Rally in Philippines contests hero's burial for Ferdinand Marcos