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Thousands in shelters as Indonesia flood death toll hits 60 04 Jan 2020 - 06:05 pm
Men collecting damaged items ride on the back of a car through the mud, at a residential area affected by floods in Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Tens of thousands march in southern India to protest citizenship law 04 Jan 2020 - 03:45 pm
Demonstrators hold placards and flags as they attend a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Hyderabad, India, January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vinod Babu
Ghosn lawyer feels betrayal, sympathy over tycoon's Japan escape 04 Jan 2020 - 02:04 pm
FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato
China replaces top envoy to Hong Kong: state media 04 Jan 2020 - 02:03 pm
Peninsula
China removes Hong Kong liaison office head Wang Zhimin 04 Jan 2020 - 02:00 pm
Teachers and pro-democracy supporters hold placards as they take part in a rally to support teachers at Edinburgh Place in the Central district of Hong Kong on January 3, 2020. AFP / Philip Fong
Hong Kong steps up response to mystery disease from China 04 Jan 2020 - 01:59 pm
Peninsula
China Plans to Increase High-Speed Railway Network by 2,000 Kilometers 04 Jan 2020 - 11:52 am
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Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Flooding in Jakarta Kills 53 04 Jan 2020 - 10:11 am
Indonesians clean their homes and cutlery along the river in Jakarta on January 3, 2020, after flooding triggered by heavy rain which started on New Year's Eve hit the area. / AFP / BAY ISMOYO
Search in Cambodia resumes after building collapse kills 5 04 Jan 2020 - 10:01 am
Rescue personnel work at the site where an under-construction building on January 3 collapsed, trapping and killing workers, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on January 4, 2020. Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the r
Australian PM calls up reservists as fire threats escalate 04 Jan 2020 - 09:51 am
A handout photo taken and received on December 31, 2019 from the State Government of Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region.
Pakistan to provide free healthcare for trans people 03 Jan 2020 - 06:50 pm
Representative image (Mark Makela / Getty Images / AFP)
Giant new rallies slam Indian government's citizenship law 03 Jan 2020 - 05:13 pm
Demonstrators display placards as they attend a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, January 3, 2020. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Via discreet airport lounge, Ghosn masterminded mystery escape from Japan 03 Jan 2020 - 05:13 pm
Carlos Ghosn gestures as he addresses a press conference in Paris on September 15, 2017 to present the Renault Nissan group strategy. AFP / Eric Piermont
Faster rockets, more warheads: What North Korea could gain from new weapons development 02 Jan 2020 - 07:16 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a WWII memorial in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 26, 2019. AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Australian bushfire smoke turns New Zealand glaciers brown 02 Jan 2020 - 01:19 pm
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Taiwan's military chief among eight dead in helicopter crash 02 Jan 2020 - 01:13 pm
This handout picture released by the Yilan County Fire Department on January 2, 2020, shows rescuers searching for survivors after a military Black Hawk helicopter smashed into mountains in Yilan county near Taipei. AFP / Yilan County Fire Department
Thai retailers ban single-use plastic bags 02 Jan 2020 - 01:11 pm
Employees carry banners informing customers about the ban on free single-use plastic bags at a shopping mall in downtown Bangkok on January 2, 2020. Thai retailers kicked off 2020 with a ban on free plastic bags to customers, as an environment group on Ja
Ghosn 'had second French passport' says source 02 Jan 2020 - 11:32 am
Lebanese police officers are seen at the entrance to the garage of what is believed to be former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's house in Beirut, Lebanon December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir