Asia
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The international community’s impotent rage over Kim Jong-un’s increasingly provocative actions underlines diplomacy’s bankruptcy
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Protests and celebrations expected as Chinese president said to make trip on 20th anniversary of former British colony’s return to China
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Two countries ban each other’s citizens from leaving in row following killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother
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Five years ago, I exposed how few Pakistani MPs were paying any taxes. Now I’m part of a campaign to get 7,000 politicians worldwide to disclose their tax records
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A Maharashtra village is giving women denied childhood education a chance to finally catch up on schooling, in a country where female illiteracy is high
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As a promising female athlete from a conservative, male-dominated area of Pakistan, Maria Toorpakai was forced to pose as a boy to learn her craft
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Tens of thousands of South Korean people rally in the centre of Seoul on Saturday night to call for the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye
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Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un, died from a seizure en route to hospital on 13 February after complaining that a woman had sprayed chemicals on his face at Kuala Lumpur international airport
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A men’s social club celebrates their lack of hair in Tsuruta City with a bizarre game of tug of war
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Malaysian police say on Sunday they are looking for four North Korean men who flew out of Malaysia the same day Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, was apparently poisoned at an airport in Kuala Lumpur
Indonesia Ciobo defends visa rules as Indonesia and Australia seek to cement trade deal