Asia
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The growth of social media and groups’ willingness to recruit more women is creating a ‘jihadi community’ in the huge Muslim nation
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Compassion International says nearly 150,000 children will be worse off unless restrictions on foreign funding are relaxed
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Island nation says 37-year-old Kuwaiti facing a life-threatening delivery does not need to go to Queensland, despite reluctant decision by Australia to move her
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Rodrigo Duterte says military and narcotics enforcement agency under his office will continue the war on drugs
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Villagers on the disputed India-Pakistan border used to coping with stray bullets and shells now fear being forced out by a prolonged drought
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Rights groups have warned that a Bangladesh government proposal to move Rohingya refugees to a flood-prone island could have fatal consequences
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Undocumented workers in Malaysia put in long hours for little money, are often excluded from healthcare and schools, and face routine intimidation
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Lawyer says officials refused to renew ID cards for wife and children of Shakil Afridi, who helped US track and kill al-Qaida chief
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India marks the 67th anniversary of its constitution coming into effect with an elaborate displays of military might and cultural events across the country
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North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to London Thae Yong-ho talks to the press at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul in South Korea
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A total of 19 buildings are demolished in only 10 seconds by five tons of explosives on Saturday in central China’s Hubei province
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China accuses US of putting stability of Asia Pacific at risk