Thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan have been forcibly returned to their country since November 1 "in very poor condition", Taliban authorities said on Sunday (5), contradicting Islamabad, which said most have returned voluntarily
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Police in Japan arrested a suspect Tuesday (31) night after an armed man holed up in a post office in a Tokyo suburb and took two hostages, prompting a nearly eight-hour standoff that was an unsettling episode for a country where gun…
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China removed defence minister Li Shangfu and ousted ex-foreign minister Qin Gang from its cabinet on Tuesday (24), state media said, in a major reshuffle of top leadership
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India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday (12) rejected a plea to legalize same-sex marriage, a stinging setback for gay people seeking equal rights in this socially conservative country of 1.4 billion people
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A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday (15), the US Geological Survey said, wracking the same region where more than 1,000 people were killed in tremors last week
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A powerful earthquake struck Herat province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday (11), several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 1,000 people
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Thousands of Afghans who survived a powerful earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people were bracing for a winter of homelessness on Tuesday (10), as rescuers made last-ditch efforts to find survivors
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The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply again Sunday (8) to more than 2,000 as rescuers scrabbled for survivors among the ruins of razed villages
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Prosecutors on Monday (18) asked a Seoul court to issue an arrest warrant for South Korea’s leading opposition figure, Lee Jae-myung, on corruption charges, 18 days after Lee began a hunger strike to protest President Yoon Suk Yeol’s…
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Myanmar's junta is endangering the life of jailed democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, her political party said on Thursday (14), accusing the military of depriving her of medical care and food
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