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Asia

  • Chinese soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing

    China threatens death penalty for Taiwan independence ‘diehards’

  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy pictured in Brussels in February.

    Russia-Ukraine war: EU to open enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week – as it happened

    Countries in the 27-nation bloc formally approve the launch of accession negotiations on Tuesday
  • The Russian president, Vladimir Putin (left), and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, smile after talks in Pyongyang

    US ‘incredibly concerned’ over Putin’s threat to supply weapons to North Korea after Asia tour

    State department warns such a move could destabilise the peninsula, as South Korea considers arming Ukraine

  • More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca

  • Russia-Ukraine war: Mark Rutte set to be next Nato head after rival withdraws – as it happened

  • Indian farm worker in Italy ‘left to die on road’ with severed arm

  • Tokyo election: demographic crisis the top issue as two women vie for job of governor

  • Thursday briefing: What Russia wants from its alliance with North Korea

  • Russia and Vietnam agree to strengthen ties during Putin state visit

  • Russia and North Korea sign mutual defence pact

Asia Pacific

  • a plane taking off

    New Zealand
    New Zealand woman takes boyfriend to disputes tribunal because he didn’t take her to the airport

  • People walk by the sea in Auckland, New Zealand

    New Zealand
    ‘It felt like bad news after bad news’: why record numbers are leaving New Zealand

  • Port Lockroy with mountains and glacier behind, Antarctica

    Antarctica
    Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang

  • Three people in orange lifejackets stand on a boat. One of them is pointing an axe towards people on another boat

    South China Sea
    Philippines accuses Chinese coastguards of piracy after violent confrontation

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South & central Asia

  • Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.

    Rights and freedom
    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  • Salil Tripathi

    Opinion
    The hounding of Arundhati Roy shows there’s still no room for dissent in India

    Salil Tripathi
  • Aydos Sadykov

    Ukraine
    Popular Kazakh opposition figure in hospital after being shot in Kyiv

  • Workers unload water bottles from a truck

    India
    Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave

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Pictures & video

  • Putin takes Kim Jong-un for a drive in Russian luxury car – video

  • Russian president is greeted by crowds and fanfare on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years

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    Kim Jong-un welcomes Vladimir Putin at official ceremony in Pyongyang – video

    Russian president is greeted by crowds and fanfare on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years
  • Kim Jong-un with Vladimir Putin

    Vladimir Putin in North Korea – in pictures

    Russia’s president was greeted by cheering crowds on his visit to Pyongyang
  • Authorities have issued flood warnings in the south while other parts of China face extreme heat

    0:23

    Drone footage shows mudslides after heavy rain in southern China – video

  • Projections show Narendra Modi's coalition is unlikely to win an outright majority in the 2024 election

    1:35

    Modi claims Indian election victory despite likely loss of majority – video

  • A man looks through the window of a property which has the slogan and logo of a political party painted on it and a bicycle resting against it

    India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival – in pictures

  • Two acquitted defendants of sixteen pro-democracy campaigners had denied charges spoke to journalists

    'We see everyone's love': acquitted defendants after Hong Kong national security trial – video

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