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Indian island police struggle to get body of US missionary adventurer
Indian authorities are struggling to figure out how to recover the body of missionary killed after wading ashore on an island cut off from the modern world.
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Influence campaigns
Spectre of meddling by Beijing looms over Taiwan’s elections
As Taiwan prepares to hold local elections, concerns are growing that Beijing's long effort to sway the island's politics has been armed with a new weapon.
- by Chris Horton
Human rights
Lese-majeste is dead. Long live lese-majeste
Thailand’s notorious royal defamation law has not been used in a year, but the chances of it being abolished are as remote as ever.
- by Michael Ruffles
Tragedy
'God, I don't want to die': US missionary's plea before remote Indian tribe struck
John Allen Chau's riveting journal of his last days shows a treacherous journey by dark in a small fishing boat to the area where the small tribe lived in huts.
- by Joanna Slater & Annie Gowen
Religious freedom
'Dangerous game': Dispute over Muslim site in India heats up
India's rulers are stepping up efforts to build a massive Hindu temple where a mosque once stood, and Muslims still living in the town say they once again feel under siege.
- by Kishna Das
Prabowo Subianto
Indonesian presidential candidate says Jerusalem move no problem
Prabowo Subianto took a sharply different line to Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
- by James Massola
Khashoggi case
Erdogan didn’t get all he hoped in Khashoggi case but he got a lot
If anything, the Turkish president may now be in a better position than he was when Khashoggi disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul seven weeks ago.
- by Carlotta Gall
Bali Nine
Renae Lawrence has walked free from her Bali jail
After 13 long years, it's done.
- by James Massola, Amilia Rosa & Toby Crockford
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Bali Nine
How Bali Nine drug mule Renae Lawrence spent first moments of freedom
Nursing a cigarette and speaking softly, the just-released former jailbird looked shocked at her new-found freedom.
- by James Massola & Amilia Rosa
Tragedy
American killed by isolated tribe on remote Indian island off-limits to visitors
A man visiting one of the islands in India's remote cluster of Andaman and Nicobar has been killed by a group of hunter-gatherers who live there isolated from the outside world, two police officials said.
- by Sanjib Kumar Roy
Biodiversity
Falcon hunters turn protectors in India
Residents regard this as one of the biggest conservation success stories in South Asia - an entire village transformed.