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5.2-magnitude quake hits north of Barishal, Pakistan: USGS 06 Jan 2026 - 11:02 pm
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Traffic deaths in Japan fall to 2,547 in 2025 06 Jan 2026 - 07:25 pm
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Japan nuclear plant operator may have underestimated quake risks 06 Jan 2026 - 05:41 pm
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Malaysia ex-PM Mahathir's hip injury 'serious but not dangerous': daughter 06 Jan 2026 - 05:33 pm
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Indonesia rescuers find sunken tourist boat along with body 06 Jan 2026 - 04:20 pm
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Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir hospitalised with hip fracture after fall at home 06 Jan 2026 - 02:39 pm
This picture taken on May 5, 2025 shows Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad posing for a picture at his office in Putrajaya. Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP
Climate-driven tree deaths speeding up in Australia: study 06 Jan 2026 - 01:25 pm
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14 killed in North Sulawesi floods, Indonesia 06 Jan 2026 - 12:04 pm
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South Korea's Lee snaps Xi selfie with Chinese 'backdoor' phone 06 Jan 2026 - 11:44 am
South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (L) and his wife Kim Hea Kyung (2nd L) take a selfie with China's President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and his wife Peng Liyuan (R) after a dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 5, 2026. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Philippines arrests ex-general who called for president's ouster 06 Jan 2026 - 10:56 am
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Cambodia re-proposes to Thailand to convene meeting on border demarcation 05 Jan 2026 - 06:34 pm
Cambodian evacuees return home in Battambang province, Cambodia on Dec. 30, 2025. Some 167,478 Cambodian evacuees have so far returned to their homes, Cambodia's Ministry of Interior said in a press release on Thursday. (Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua)
South Korea's Lee meets Xi with trade, Pyongyang on the agenda 05 Jan 2026 - 02:58 pm
South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping (R) during a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 5, 2026. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Malaysia to introduce 10-year term limit for prime minister 05 Jan 2026 - 11:16 am
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'Tuna King' pays record $3.2 mn for bluefin at Tokyo auction 05 Jan 2026 - 10:38 am
Kiyoshi Kimura (C), president of Kiyomura Corp., the Tokyo-based operator of sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai, displays a 243-kilogram bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on January 5, 2026, after the New Year's auction at Toyosu fish market. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki / AFP)
Four police killed in two armed attacks in northern Pakistan 04 Jan 2026 - 07:18 pm
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Pakistan, Malaysia Reaffirm Commitment to Strengthening Bilateral Cooperation 04 Jan 2026 - 06:43 pm
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles in first test of 2026 04 Jan 2026 - 04:43 pm
People sit in front of a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on January 4, 2026. Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP
Chinese embassy warns citizens in Japan to stay vigilant amid surging violent incidents 04 Jan 2026 - 04:25 pm
A woman walks on a street on the first snow day of 2026 in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 2, 2026. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)

Europe

This photograph shows a flight departures information board displaying numerous cancellations at the Schiphol Airport on January 6, 2026 as hundreds of flights have been cancelled again at the airport due to snowfall. (Photo by Robin Utrecht / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT Snow prompts hundreds of flight cancellations at Amsterdam Schiphol
(From L) Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and US businessman Jared Kushner deliver a press conference upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine on January 6, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP) Allies agree 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine: Macron
SNCF railway tracks are covered in snow in La Rochelle, western France, on January 6, 2026. (Photo by Amelia BLANCHOT / AFP) Six dead in weather accidents as cold snap grips Europe
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Africa

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For representational purposes only. This photo taken on Jan. 1, 2026 shows tourists visiting the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) Remains of Byzantine-era monastic compound uncovered in Upper Egypt

Americas

This courtroom sketch shows deposed president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, attending his arraignment at Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse on January 5, 2026 in New York. (Photo by Jane Rosenberg / AFP) Venezuela's deposed Maduro pleads not guilty, insists still president
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. File photo. AFP. UN Secretary-General expresses deep concern over developments in Venezuela
This screengrab taken from the X account of Rapid Response 47, the official White House rapid response account, shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) escorted by DEA agents inside the headquarters of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in lower Manhattan, New York, on January 3, 2026. (Photo by X account of Rapid Response 47 / AFP) Maduro pleads not guilty in US court
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