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Ohtani fever hits South Korea as Dodgers light up Seoul 18 Mar 2024 - 03:18 pm
People walk past an advertisement with a picture of Shohei Ohtani in Tokyo on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP)
China retail sales show shaky economic recovery 18 Mar 2024 - 12:16 pm
A man and woman perform martial arts exercises at a shopping mall in Beijing on March 17, 2024. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
Malaysia considers hosting 'downsized' Commonwealth Games 18 Mar 2024 - 10:35 am
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21 dead in Afghanistan after bus collides with tanker 17 Mar 2024 - 05:38 pm
This handout photograph released by Afghanistan's Helmand Information Department on March 17, 2024 shows security personnel and volunteers standing near the wreckage of burned passenger bus and oil tanker after they and a motorbike collided on the Herat-Kandahar highway in Grishk district of Helmand province. (Photo by Afghanistan's Helmand Information Department / AFP)
Vietnam faces $3bn annual crop losses from rising saltwater levels 17 Mar 2024 - 02:00 pm
This photo taken on February 23, 2024 shows a farmer looking at his crop in a dry rice field amid a long heatwave in southern Vietnam's Ca Mau province in the Mekong Delta region, known as
Chinese tourist arrivals in Philippines surge by 235 pct in Jan-Feb 17 Mar 2024 - 11:40 am
Motorists and vehicles travel along a road amid traffic jam in Manila on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
Ohtani focused ahead of MLB season opener in Seoul 16 Mar 2024 - 02:17 pm
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani speaks during a press conference prior to a baseball workout at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 16, 2024, ahead of the 2024 MLB Seoul Series baseball game between Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Thai PM vows to curb air pollution in tourist hotspot Chiang Mai 16 Mar 2024 - 01:52 pm
Heavy air pollution is seen over Mae Ngat Somboon Chon Dam in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai on March 16, 2024. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
N. Korea refers to Kim's daughter by term reserved for 'top leaders' 16 Mar 2024 - 12:56 pm
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S. Korean senior doctors to resign in support of junior medics' walkout 16 Mar 2024 - 09:47 am
A medical worker walks into a hospital in Seoul on March 15, 2024. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
Crisis-hit Sri Lankan economy rebounds as tourists return 16 Mar 2024 - 09:01 am
A street vendor sells prawns at the Galle Face sea-front promenade in Colombo on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)
Japan suspends Fukushima water release after quake as precaution 15 Mar 2024 - 12:42 pm
This aerial picture shows storage tanks (bottom) used for storing treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 24, 2023. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)
Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai tops world's most polluted cities 15 Mar 2024 - 12:38 pm
Tourists look out as high levels of air pollution obscure the view of Chiang Mai from atop Wat Phra That Doi Suthep temple on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
Baseball star Ohtani reveals identity of wife after intense speculation 15 Mar 2024 - 12:27 pm
Mamiko Tanaka (R), wife of Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Ohtani (L), arrives with the baseball team's players at Incheon International Airport in Incheon on March 15, 2024, ahead of the 2024 MLB Seoul Series baseball games between Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Hundreds rescued from Philippines scam centre 14 Mar 2024 - 07:23 pm
This undated handout photograph received from Philippines' Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) on March 14, 2024 shows a police officer (front, center) talking to foreign nationals after a raid in a 10-hectare (25-acre) complex of buildings in Bamban town of Tarlac province, north of Manila. Hundreds of people forced to work in an online scam centre in the Philippines were rescued in a pre-dawn raid on March 14 that also saw eight suspects arrested, according to police. Police found 432 Chinese nationals, 371 Filipinos, 57 Vietnamese, eight Malaysians, three Taiwanese, two Indonesians and two Rwandans at the site. (Photo by Philippines' Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) / AFP) 
Thousands of Indian farmers protest in New Delhi demanding law guaranteeing minimum crop prices 14 Mar 2024 - 02:04 pm
Farmers take part in a sit-in protest demanding minimum crop prices, loan waivers and an investigation into the death of a farmer during the farmers' protest
Fire erupts in Philippine General Hospital, over 100 patients evacuated 13 Mar 2024 - 05:08 pm
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Huge blast kills two, injures 26 in northern China 13 Mar 2024 - 02:52 pm
Firefighters work at the scene of a suspected gas explosion in Sanhe, in China's northern Hebei province on March 13, 2024. Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP

Europe

French police officers stand in front of the Louvre Museum after robbery, in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP) 'Systemic failures' led to Louvre robbery, inquiry finds
Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York reacts as he leaves St. George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, after attending the Easter Mattins Service, on March 31, 2024. (Photo by Justin Tallis / AFP) UK police arrest ex-prince Andrew on suspicion of misconduct
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General view of a flooded street in Toamasina on February 15, 2026 after the passage of tropical cyclone Gezani. Photo by RIJASOLO / AFP Madagascar cyclone death toll rises to 59
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Jose Balcazar speaks after being sworn in as president of Peru at the Congress of the Republic of Peru, in Lima, Peru, on Feb. 18, 2026. (Peru's Congress/Handout via Xinhua) Jose Balcazar elected as new Peruvian president
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