Asia Pacific
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President says he believes he will win court fight over travel ban as confusion reigns over whether he will appeal decision to supreme court
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Navy surveillance aircraft and Chinese military aircraft come within 1,000ft of each other near contested reef in apparently unintentional encounter, US says
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US leader has softened on a range of issues. Is he a bully who relents when challenged, or is he learning the limits of his power?
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Dozens of volunteers form a barrier in Golden Bay in an effort to prevent more whales from stranding themselves after hundreds died there on Thursday night
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Urgent plea issued for locals to drop work and school commitments and head to the remote beach to save surviving whales
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Editorial: Destabilising the Asian-Pacific status quo and unsettling China is not an end in itself. Regional powers are unnerved by erratic and even contradictory signals from the US
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We asked NGOs how the reinstatement of the ‘global gag’ rule will impact what they do, and the people they work with. Here are some of the responses
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Attempt to deport two Nepalese asylum seekers results in one escaping as Papua New Guinea finalises travel documents for those found not to be refugees
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Local media says Thomas Keating will be formally charged with reckless driving after Emily Collie’s death
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Study published in Liver International examined the outcomes of 564 transplantations at Zhejiang University’s First Affiliated hospital in China
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‘Minor’ fire at Galaxy Note 7 battery supplier’s Tianjin plant saw 110 firefighters and 19 trucks sent to put out blaze, according to emergency services
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Report says ties between the two nuclear-armed countries could deteriorate into an economic or military confrontation
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Anton Bakov and his wife Maria want to lease three islands in Kiribati where they plan to set up an alternative Russia
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Indonesian miners painstakingly sift through the waste for scraps from the largest gold mine in the world: the Grasberg mine in West Papua
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Kung Fu Yoga was supposed to hail a new production link between the two countries, but Indian critics are calling the film old-fashioned and stereotyped
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President says military ready to respond with airstrikes and fresh offensives after New People’s Army kills six soldiers
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