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Asia
Next stop on Saudi crown prince's image makeover tour: China
Mohammed Bin Salman arrives in China in the middle of a multi-country swing through Asia designed to polish his image abroad.
- by Iain Marlow
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Fire
Fire kills dozens in centuries-old Bangladesh district
The blaze broke out on Wednesday and spread to other nearby buildings as fire fighters fought for more than five hours to bring it under control.
Animals
Spotted: Leopard wandering empty mall in India
The big cat skulked through the Korum Mall basement before opening hours early morning on Wednesday in Thane, outside Mumbai, local media reported.
- by Alex Horton
North Korea
Daughter of missing North Korean diplomat 'abducted and sent back home'
Italy warned there would be consequences to pay if the daughter of missing diplomat Jo Song Gil had been secretly whisked back to Pyongyang.
- by Crispian Balmer
Illness
Deadly measles infects thousands in Philippines as vaccines shunned
More than 130 people, mainly children, have died and 8443 others have fallen ill in the Philippines during a measles outbreak that has been largely blamed on fears about vaccinations.
- by Nicola Smith
World Politics
'Where will it lead?': Imran Khan warns India against attack over Kashmir
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the United Nations to intervene in a rapidly escalating dispute with India.
- by Asif Shahzad and Fayaz Bukhari
Opinion
China borrows from totalitarian playbook with Xinjiang camps
China’s Xinjiang camps share much with Stalin’s gulag and Hitler’s concentration camps as they reflect a drive to not only use repression as a means of control but also the desire to mobilise society “behind an exclusive ideology” and “to ‘educate’ people into becoming committed believers, to claim them in soul as well as body”.
- by Michael Clarke
Cyber security
China the world's biggest hacking victim, Chinese report says
Beijing security firm Knownsec Information Technology reported on Monday that Chinese organisations suffered an average of 800 million cyber attacks daily in 2018.
- by Kirsty Needham
Election
Thai election looms as a major test for military influence
Junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha should be in the box seat to remain in power, but the opposition parties in Thailand are stirring.
- by James Massola
Techno-nationalism
As Germany, UK waver on Huawei, China rebuts chief US security claim
The decisions of the two major European powers could be a tipping point for Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker.
- by Kirsty Needham
World Politics
'Unprecedented attack' puts focus on Kashmir's homegrown militants
The attack in which 40 Indian soldiers died last week has escalated the potential for conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
- by Niha Masih and Joanna Slater