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Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan replaced as party head 02 Dec 2023 - 12:27 pm
File photo of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan
Pakistan starts sovereign VC fund to lure startup investors back 01 Dec 2023 - 05:35 pm
File: A man walks past foreign currency exchange market in Islamabad on July 11, 2023. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi / AFP)
Modi offers India as host of COP climate talks in 2028 01 Dec 2023 - 05:03 pm
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the High-Level Segment for Heads of State and Government session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 1, 2023. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace / AFP)
Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 01 Dec 2023 - 03:42 pm
This undated handout image taken and received by the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) on December 1, 2023 shows the JT-60SA, the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactor constructed to date, before its planned inauguration in the city of Naka, Ibaraki prefecture on December 1. Photo by Handout / National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) / AFP
Philippines installing monitoring station in disputed sea 01 Dec 2023 - 01:16 pm
This photo shows a general view of the newly unveiled Philippine Coast Guard monitoring station on Thitu Island in the disputed South China Sea on December 1, 2023. Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP
Bangladesh opposition boycotts "farcical" polls 30 Nov 2023 - 05:06 pm
File: Islami Andolan Bangladesh party activists march towards the election commission in Dhaka on November 15, 2023, to protest the announcement of the general election date by the commission in Dhaka. (Photo by Munir uz Zaman / AFP)
Pakistani province aims to deport 10,000 Afghans a day 30 Nov 2023 - 04:20 pm
This photo taken on November 23, 2023 shows Afghan refugee on a truck after visiting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Azakhel Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Nowshera. More than 345,000 Afghans have returned to their country or been deported since Pakistan in October ordered undocumented migrants or those who have overstayed their visas to leave. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Seven still missing after US Osprey crash off Japan 30 Nov 2023 - 03:02 pm
Recovered debris, believed to be part of wreckage from a crashed US Air Force CV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, is seen after it was brought ashore at Yakushima-cho in Kagoshima prefecture on November 30, 2023. Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP
Philippines to block access to crypto giant Binance 30 Nov 2023 - 01:00 pm
Motorists and vehicles travel along a road amid traffic jam in Manila on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
Video: Japan Coast Guard captures spectacular volcanic eruption on Niijima Island 30 Nov 2023 - 11:26 am
Peninsula
Philippines' Marcos welcomes release of final Filipino hostage in Gaza 29 Nov 2023 - 06:20 pm
Filipina Noralyn Babadilla (second right) before she was handed over to the Red Cross in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP)
After 17 days trapped in tunnel, India workers say hope kept them alive 29 Nov 2023 - 09:51 am
An IAF Chinook helicopter carrying rescued workers to a hospital in Rishikesh takes off at Chinyalisaur airstrip in Uttarakashi district of Uttarakhand State on November 29, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain / AFP)
All 41 Indian workers trapped in tunnel for 17 days rescued: minister 28 Nov 2023 - 05:47 pm
This handout picture released by the Uttarakhand's Department of Information and Public Relation (DIPR) and taken on November 28, 2023 shows a contruction worker (front 2L) interacting with Chief minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami (C) following his rescue from inside the under construction Silkyara tunnel during a rescue operation for trapped workers after a section of the tunnel collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state. (Photo by Department of Information and Public Relation (DIPR) Uttarakhand / AFP)
Philippines, communist rebels agree to resume peace talks 28 Nov 2023 - 05:40 pm
File photo: Guerrillas of the New People's Army (NPA) are seen in formation in the Sierra Madre mountain range, east of Manila, on July 30, 2017. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
Doctors warn of New Zealand health tragedy after smoking ban scrapped 28 Nov 2023 - 08:50 am
New Zealand's new PM Christopher Luxon (L) looks on as New Zealand's Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro signs documents during the swearing-in of the new government at Government House in Wellington on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Marty Melville / AFP)
Indian army digs by hand to free 41 trapped tunnel workers 27 Nov 2023 - 11:53 am
Rescue personnel arrive for manual drilling at the collapsed under construction Silkyara tunnel on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)
Bangladesh arrest thousands in 'violent' crackdown: HRW 27 Nov 2023 - 11:03 am
Motorists watch as Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists set fire on a road during clashes with the police in Araihazar, on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)
Strong cold wave to lash various parts of China 26 Nov 2023 - 03:52 pm
Cars make their way during snowfall in Dalian, in China's northeastern Liaoning province on November 23, 2023. Photo by AFP