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Filipino peace advocate among winners of Asian humanitarian prize 31 Aug 2023 - 12:59 pm
An undated handout photo of Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, Women in Peace-Building Pioneer from Philippines (L). (Photo by Handout / Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation / AFP)
Hong Kong braces for Super Typhoon Saola to hit Friday 31 Aug 2023 - 12:05 pm
People sit along a promenade next to Victoria harbour in Hong Kong on August 31, 2023, a day before the arrival of Typhoon Saola. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)
Rain and wrong address delayed firefighters reaching Philippine factory blaze, leaving 15 dead  31 Aug 2023 - 11:08 am
Firemen direct a vehicle after a fire at a house in Quezon City, suburban Manila on August 31, 2023. Photo by AFP
Japan requests record $53 bn defence budget 31 Aug 2023 - 10:50 am
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters about North Korea's ballistic missile launches at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on August 31, 2023. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Thousands protest over 'abductions, disappearances' in Bangladesh 30 Aug 2023 - 05:27 pm
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Malaysia joins India in protest against China's land claim in a newly published map 30 Aug 2023 - 05:07 pm
A man rides past an illuminated hoarding with the G20 logo displayed along a street in New Delhi on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
India allows rice exports to Singapore, sidestepping sales curbs 30 Aug 2023 - 04:54 pm
File Photo: Labourers unload rice bags from a supply truck at India's main rice port at Kakinada Anchorage in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, on September 2, 2021. (Rajendra Jadhav/Reuters)
Japan PM eats 'safe and delicious' Fukushima fish 30 Aug 2023 - 04:43 pm
This handout photo taken and received from the Cabinet Public Relations Office via Jiji Press on August 30, 2023 shows Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida posing as he eats seafood from Fukushima prefecture at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. (Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP)
Kyrgyzstan moves to ban TikTok citing risk to children 30 Aug 2023 - 04:20 pm
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Pakistan ex-PM Khan's detention extended over leaked documents 30 Aug 2023 - 12:14 pm
Security personnel stand guard outside the Attock prison, where former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is sentenced, in Attock on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Majeed / AFP)
Indian teen chess wizard Pragg given hero's welcome 30 Aug 2023 - 11:51 am
India's chess grandmaster and silver medallist Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, responds to a television media personnel as he is welcomed upon his return from the FIDE Chess World Cup in Baku, at the Chennai International airport in Chennai, on August 30, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
India's moon rover confirms sulfur, detects several elements near the lunar south pole 29 Aug 2023 - 11:24 pm
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Fukushima wastewater not toxic, says IAEA chief 29 Aug 2023 - 08:21 pm
People walk past a Japanese restaurant near the Japanese embassy in Beijing on August 29, 2023.  (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)
India issues strong protest to China over 'territorial' map 29 Aug 2023 - 08:01 pm
File photo of Delhi--Mumbai expressway
'Manipulation' keeps Pakistan ex-PM Khan in jail despite bail: Lawyers 29 Aug 2023 - 04:34 pm
Lawyers and supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, shout slogans as they celebrate outside the Islamabad High Court in Islamabad on August 29, 2023, after suspension of Khan's prison sentence for a graft conviction. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Pakistan court suspends ex-PM Khan's graft sentence: party 29 Aug 2023 - 11:44 am
Policemen stand guard outside the Islamabad High Court building in Islamabad on August 29, 2023, during the hearing of Imran Khan's plea seeking suspension of a three-year jail term. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Typhoon forces 25,000 people to flee homes in Philippines 29 Aug 2023 - 11:34 am
A man braves heavy showers and winds while evacuating his cattle as Typhoon Saola brushes past Ilagan City, Isabela Province, north of Manila on August 27, 2023. Photo by AFP
Neurosurgeon investigating mystery symptoms, plucks a worm from patient's brain in Australia 29 Aug 2023 - 11:28 am
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