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  • Police in Dresden, where the suspect was arrested on Monday night.

    AfD politician’s aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China

  • Rescue services inspect the crash site of two helicopters in Lumur, Perak state

    Malaysia navy helicopters collide in mid-air, killing all 10 onboard

    Videos on social media show helicopters flying in formation when one clipped another and both crashed
  • A statue of General Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan

    Taiwan pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek

    In move seen by the opposition as an attempt to de-sinocise Taiwan, the ruling party is pushing ahead with plans to rid the island of monuments to the dictator
  • Joy in Taiwan – and praise from the president – as Nymphia Wind wins RuPaul’s Drag Race

  • China floods: four killed in Guangdong sparking concerns over extreme weather defences

  • Armenian PM defends decision to give four villages to Azerbaijan

  • Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues

  • Break the cycle of debt and dependency that stunts developing countries’ growth

  • Three German citizens arrested on suspicion of spying for China

  • Southern China is inundated by floods – video report

  • mother and baby lying on the floor

    Japan
    ‘Horizontally’ recycled nappies go on sale in Japan in world first

  • Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu addresses the media after casting his ballot during the country's parliamentary elections.

    Maldives
    Pro-China party wins landslide victory in Maldives parliamentary elections

  • Ukrainian soldier manning mortar unit

    Arms trade
    Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

  • A pagoda is seen from above half submerged in floodwater with a river burst from its banks and hills in the background.

    China
    Millions at risk of floods in China’s Guangdong province after heavy rain

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  • Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.

    Global development
    ‘I only protest. I want to go to school’: the childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

  • Avani Dias

    Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist

  • Separate lines of Indian men and women queueing under lines of bunting

    Global development
    As India goes to the polls, can democracy deliver a better life for all of its people?

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Narendra Modi addresses a crowd on Independence Day. He is looking towards the right and appears to be speaking, with one arm in the air. He is wearing a red turban and white kurta.

    Narendra Modi
    ‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality

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Pictures & video

  • North Korea airs song praising Kim Jong-un as 'friendly father' – video

  • Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency said residents of Tagulandang island would be relocated to Manado, the nearest city, on Sulawesi island, a journey of six hours by boat

    Mount Ruang eruption in Indonesia sparks tsunami fear as hundreds evacuate – video

    Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency said residents of Tagulandang island would be relocated to Manado, the nearest city, on Sulawesi island, a journey of six hours by boat
  • There were queues at the Myanmar border on Friday as people attempted to flee after the strategically vital town of Myawaddy fell to the anti-junta resistance

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    People flee to Thailand amid intense fighting in Myanmar – video

    There were queues at the Myanmar border on Friday as people attempted to flee after the strategically vital town of Myawaddy fell to the anti-junta resistance
  • Deluge of meltwater forces more than 110,000 people from their homes in Russia, Siberia and Kazakhstan

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    Kazakhstan blows up artificial dams as floods force mass evacuations – video

  • Senior members of the conservative People Power party (PPP) offered to resign in response to its heavy defeat

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    South Korean opposition claim landslide win in parliamentary elections – video

  • Video from around the world has captured celebrations of Eid al-Fitr

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    Eid al-Fitr: millions of Muslims around the world celebrate end of Ramadan – video

  • CCTV footage shows the couple, who also hold Singaporean passports, alighting from a bus before beginning a hike around 25 minutes before a massive quake struck Taiwan

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    Footage shows missing Australian nationals minutes before Taiwan earthquake – video

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