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India's 'digital arrest' scammers stealing savings 20 Jan 2025 - 02:30 pm
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South Korean president arrested, accused of leading insurrection 19 Jan 2025 - 10:49 pm
A Seoul Regional Corrections inmate transport vehicle believed to be carrying the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at Seoul Western District Court on Saturday. (Photo by Jintak Han/The Washington Post)
Wuhan keen to shake off pandemic label five years on 19 Jan 2025 - 05:48 pm
(Combo) This combination photograph created on December 23, 2024 shows a man wearing a protective face mask riding a motorcycle on a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on January 26, 2020 (top) and cars on the same street on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Hector Retamal / AFP)
Pakistan's trade deficit with neighboring countries rises by 43.22 pct 19 Jan 2025 - 04:58 pm
File photo: A customer buys vegetables from a stall at a market in Karachi on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)
ASEAN tells Myanmar to prioritise ceasefire over elections 19 Jan 2025 - 04:21 pm
From L-R: Laos Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary to ASEAN Aung Kyaw Moe, Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Sangiampongsa, Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan, Philippines's Secretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo, Brunei's Minister of Foreign Affairs Erywan Pehim Yusof, Cambodia's Secretery of State Kung Phoak, Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Sugiono, East Timor's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bendito Freitas, and ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn pose for a group photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Malaysia's Langkawi Island on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Azneal Ishak / POOL / AFP)
Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended 19 Jan 2025 - 02:31 pm
Police stand guard on a street near the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul, early on January 19, 2025, after hundreds of pro-Yoon protesters smashed windows and broke down doors to enter the court following the extension of the detention of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol. Photo by Jin-kyu Kang / AFP
Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts more than 1,000 times this month 19 Jan 2025 - 11:22 am
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South Korea's impeached president attends court to fight detention extension 18 Jan 2025 - 07:09 pm
A blue van believed to be transporting impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul on January 18, 2025, for a hearing which will decide whether to extend Yoon's detention as investigators probe his failed martial law bid. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / POOL / AFP)
Sri Lanka reduces electricity tariffs by 20 pct 18 Jan 2025 - 06:29 pm
COLOMBO, Jan. 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 25, 2024 shows the Presidential Secretariat of Sri lanka in Colombo, Sri lanka. (Xinhua/Chen Dongshu)
China records 9.9% increase in foreign companies in 2024 18 Jan 2025 - 05:34 pm
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Cambodian villager killed by anti-tank mine 18 Jan 2025 - 05:30 pm
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S. Korea's impeached president attends court to fight detention extension 18 Jan 2025 - 03:04 pm
Pro-Yoon supporters wave flags as they gather on a road outside the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul on January 18, 2025. (Photo by Anthony Wallace / AFP)
Indian court finds man guilty in notorious hospital rape case 18 Jan 2025 - 01:37 pm
Social activists shout slogans near the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court in Kolkata on January 18, 2025. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP)
India uses AI to stop stampedes at world's biggest gathering 18 Jan 2025 - 12:31 pm
Police monitor the situation via screens at the Integrated Command and Control Center during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on January 17, 2025. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni / AFP)
Pakistan airline apologises for Eiffel Tower advert 17 Jan 2025 - 09:27 pm
A man looks at an advert of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane flying at the Eiffel Tower, on his mobile phone in Islamabad on January 17, 2025. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
S. Korea plane crash investigators find feathers in engines: media 17 Jan 2025 - 03:01 pm
Investigators and emergency response personnel work at the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on January 4, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
South Korea investigators seek to extend President Yoon's detention 17 Jan 2025 - 02:55 pm
Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol chant slogans during a rally outside the government complex building housing the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) in Gwacheon on January 16, 2025. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
Nintendo shares down on detail-light Switch 2 teaser 17 Jan 2025 - 12:29 pm
A woman walk past an electronic board showing the numbers of Nintendo's stock price (top, R) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in central Tokyo on January 17, 2025. Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP