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Trump announces 100% chip tariff, pressuring Asian producers 07 Aug 2025 - 11:21 am
(Files) A sample of a semiconductor chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is displayed at the Cybersec 2025 conference and expo in Taipei on April 15, 2025. (Photo by I-HWA CHENG / AFP)
Thai prosecutors indict 23 over quake skyscraper collapse 07 Aug 2025 - 10:41 am
File photo of rescue teams at a construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake. Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action 07 Aug 2025 - 10:25 am
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Cockatoos can bust a move: Australian research 07 Aug 2025 - 10:12 am
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North Korean rescued after swimming across border: Seoul 07 Aug 2025 - 07:47 am
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Little girl in Cambodia becomes 15th victim of bird flu in 2025 06 Aug 2025 - 08:23 pm
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Sri Lanka detains ex-minister Rajapaksa for alleged corruption 06 Aug 2025 - 08:11 pm
Police escort Sri Lanka's former Agriculture Minister Shasheendra Rajapaksa (centre) to a prison in Colombo on August 6, 2025. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP)
Jumbo journey as Indian elephant set to return home 06 Aug 2025 - 03:41 pm
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Indian army searches for scores missing after deadly Himalayan flood 06 Aug 2025 - 03:17 pm
This handout photograph released on August 6, 2025 by the Indian Army shows security and relief personnel heaving rocks and removing debris to build a crossing across a stream of dense sludge during a search and rescue operation, a day after a cloudburst caused a massive mudslide and flash floods in India's Uttarakhand state.  (Photo by Indian Army / AFP)
VIDEO: Massive fire ravages buildings in Tondo, Manila; families displaced 06 Aug 2025 - 10:50 am
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Cambodia says barbed wire deployed by Thai soldiers removed 05 Aug 2025 - 09:32 pm
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100 missing after flash flood washes out Indian Himalayan town 05 Aug 2025 - 09:27 pm
This handout photograph taken on August 5, 2025 and released by the Indian Army shows residential buildings partially submerged in sludge after a cloudburst caused a massive mudslide in India's Uttarakhand state. (Photo by Indian Army / AFP)
Indonesia plans water taxis in Bali to ease traffic congestion 05 Aug 2025 - 06:50 pm
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Bangladesh to hold elections in February 2026: Yunus 05 Aug 2025 - 05:13 pm
Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks during a government-organised event in Dhaka on August 5, 2025. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
VIDEO: India deploys rescue teams as flood swamps Himalayan town 05 Aug 2025 - 01:57 pm
Pictures shared by the official social media handle of Uttarkashi Police.
Bali trial opens for American man accused of drug distribution 05 Aug 2025 - 01:51 pm
US national William Wallace Molyneaux walks to a court room during his trial in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on August 5, 2025. Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP
Rare protest in China over schoolgirl beaten by teens 05 Aug 2025 - 01:04 pm
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Hong Kong hit by flooding after flurry of rainstorm warnings 05 Aug 2025 - 12:47 pm
An overturned boat is seen in Tseung Kwan O district in Hong Kong on August 5, 2025. Photo by Yan ZHAO / AFP