Asia
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Man held by Turkish authorities is named as Abdulgadir Masharipov, born in Uzbekistan in 1983
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Country’s national airline acts after recent incidents of men allegedly groping passengers and cabin staff
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Woman and her three sons reportedly contacted friends on Facebook after digging themselves into a snow hole on Mount Kenashi
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Special prosecutors allege that Jay Y Lee paid $36m in bribes to disgraced friend of impeached president Park Geun-hye for business favours
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Beijing fumes as Taiwanese president declares intent to ‘walk on the international stage’ after stopovers in the US where she met Republicans
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Campaigners say proposed law change permitting child marriage in ‘special cases’ would increase risks of rape, domestic violence and early pregnancy
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Sunil Rastogi, 38-year-old with five children, arrested in investigation of sexual assault of three girls aged nine and 10
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Parveen Bibi confessed before a special court in Lahore to killing her daughter in June for ‘bringing shame to the family’
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Boost for talks backed by Russia and Turkey as opposition groups consent to send delegation to press for ceasefire
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Muslims leave Tongi, near Dhaka, on a overcrowded train after the final prayer at the Biswa Ijtema congregation
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A Turkish cargo jet has crashed into a village near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport, killing at least 37 people
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Anglers cast lines through holes in a frozen river during the Hwacheon Sancheoneo ice festival in Hwacheon-gun
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Roman Catholic devotees clamber towards the miraculous Black Nazarene
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Officials in Pyongyang take part in North Korea’s first dedicated sports day of the year
Chinese discard hundreds of cycles-for-hire in giant piles