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Philippines and New Zealand in talks for defence pact 29 Jan 2025 - 08:12 pm
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Rohingya refugees blocked from landing on Indonesia beach 29 Jan 2025 - 04:08 pm
People gather around a boat carrying newly-arrived Rohingya refugees at Leuge Beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Cek MAD / AFP)
South Korea airplane fire leaves seven injured 29 Jan 2025 - 02:16 pm
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that broke out on an Air Busan passenger plane bound for Hong Kong, at Gimhae International Airport in Busan on January 28, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
15 dead in stampede at India’s religious festival 29 Jan 2025 - 11:19 am
Pilgrims gather at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in Prayagraj on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni / AFP)
S. Korean passenger plane catches fire, 176 people evacuated 28 Jan 2025 - 07:33 pm
Fire authorities work to extinguish a fire that broke out on an Air Busan passenger plane at Gimhae International Airport in Busan on January 28, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Fast-moving fires torch national parks in southeast Australia 28 Jan 2025 - 02:35 pm
A handout photo from VicEmergency/state control centre taken and released on January 27, 2025 shows a fire truck arriving to battle bushfires in Little Desert National Park in the Australian state of Victoria. (Photo by Handout / VicEmergency/state control centre / AFP)
Japanese truck driver stuck in sinkhole 28 Jan 2025 - 12:55 pm
Firefighters work to rescue a truck driver after his vehicle was swallowed up by a sinkhole at a prefectural road intersection, in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 28, 2025. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Nepal resumes rescue helicopter flights to Mount Everest 28 Jan 2025 - 11:55 am
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India says agreed with China to resume direct flights after 5 years 27 Jan 2025 - 05:53 pm
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China urges US to stop politicisation of COVID-19 origins-tracing 27 Jan 2025 - 05:42 pm
File photo: People walk on a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 21, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Bird feathers and bloodstains found in Jeju jet engines: report 27 Jan 2025 - 04:22 pm
Firefighters and recovery teams work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 30, 2024. Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP
Chinese lion dance troupe shrugs off patriarchal past 27 Jan 2025 - 03:36 pm
Lin Xinmeng (C) holding a female lion dancer during a practice session at an ancestral temple in Shantou, in southern China's Guangdong province. (Photo by Jade Gao / AFP)
Western France put on high flood alert after storm 'Herminia' 27 Jan 2025 - 02:13 pm
This photograph shows cars in a street following exceptional floodin of the Ille river in Rennes, western France on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Damien Meyer / AFP)
Singapore to trial self-driving public buses from mid-2026 27 Jan 2025 - 01:38 pm
People walk as a cruise boat moves along the water at Marina Bay in Singapore on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN and ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
Japan police arrest man over train station stabbing 27 Jan 2025 - 12:13 am
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Thailand detains British husband in 'Lady of the Hills' mystery 26 Jan 2025 - 02:42 pm
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In Photos: India shows military might and diversity at Republic Day parade 26 Jan 2025 - 02:26 pm
A soldier salutes next to an Akash missile system during country's 76th Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain / AFP)
South Korean president indicted as 'ringleader of an insurrection' 26 Jan 2025 - 01:43 pm
South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol arrives to attend the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial over his short-lived imposition of martial law at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on January 23, 2025. Photo by JEON HEON-KYUN / POOL / AFP