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Asia

  • Voters queue to cast their election ballot outside a village polling station in Assam state

    India election: Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase

  • The popular tourist spot with view of a Lawson convenience shop, with view of Mount Fuji behind at Kawaguchiko station

    Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

    Fujikawaguchiko town official says choice to erect huge barrier is ‘regrettable’ and last resort
  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia

    Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño

  • Pandabuy: police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

  • What does Taiwan get from the foreign aid bill and why is the US economy among the biggest winners?

  • India election: fears that Modi’s BJP will polarise voters in fight for key state

  • Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

  • Russia vetos UN resolution to prevent nuclear arms race in space

  • AfD politician to run in European elections despite aide’s alleged spying for China

  • China warns US after Senate passes aid bill worth billions to Taiwan – video

Asia Pacific

  • Antony Blinken waves as he boards his plane at Andrews airbase in Maryland on his way to Beijing for his three-day visit to China

    China
    Antony Blinken arrives in China with warning for Beijing over support of Russia

  • Visitors from Australia and New Zealand attend a dawn ceremony at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli peninsula

    New Zealand
    Lost luggage leaves New Zealand’s band without instruments for Anzac Day at Gallipoli

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

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

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South & central Asia

  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Rights and freedom
    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

  • Detail from the cover of the book And They Lived … Ever After with a picture of Rapunzel and the subtitle 'Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales'.

    Global development
    Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    Rights and freedom
    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

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Pictures & video

  • CCTV captures moment buildings collapse in new Taiwan quakes – video

  • Floods have swamped a number of cities in the densely populated Pearl River delta after record-breaking rains

    1:12

    Southern China is inundated by floods – video report

    Floods have swamped a number of cities in the densely populated Pearl River delta after record-breaking rains
  • A song aired on North Korean state television shows jubilant citizens hailing Kim Jong-un as their 'friendly father'

    1:09

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

    A song aired on North Korean state television shows jubilant citizens hailing Kim Jong-un as their 'friendly father'
  • 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

  • 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

    1:22

    People flee to Thailand amid intense fighting in Myanmar – video

  • Deluge of meltwater forces more than 110,000 people from their homes in Russia, Siberia and Kazakhstan

    0:44

    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

    1:38

    South Korean opposition claim landslide win in parliamentary elections – video

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