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  • A camera operator at the European court of justice

    EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum

  • Hideko Hakamada (C) holds a banner reading "innocent man, not guilty verdict" to support her brother Iwao Hakamada, as she arrives to the Shizuoka District Court on September 26, 2024. The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was freed last month after nearly 50 years on death row.

    After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?

    Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment still has popular support
  • People holding umbrellas walk under a fallen tree after Typhoon Krathon made landfall in Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

    Typhoon Krathon hits Taiwan, killing two people and wreaking destruction

    Several missing and more than 120 injured after storm makes landfall in Kaohsiung, with authorities pleading for people to stay inside

  • Storm blows away store equipment in Taiwan as Typhoon Krathon hits – video

  • Bird flu outbreak kills dozens of tigers in Vietnam zoos

  • North Korean defector crashes stolen bus in failed bid to return home

  • Typhoon Krathon: two people killed and two missing in Taiwan

  • Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport

  • ‘Life is pretty brutal’: concerns in India over high-pressure corporate jobs

  • Indian police investigate ticket resales for Coldplay Mumbai gigs

Asia Pacific

  • A man with a t-shirt reading "Kanaky resistance" looks on in the Pierre Lenquette district of Noumea, on 29 September 2024.

    New Caledonia
    New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister

  • First response teams at the scene of the blaze

    Thailand
    Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand

  • Xi Jinping makes a toast marking the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

    China
    Xi Jinping forecasts ‘rough seas’ on 75th anniversary of People’s Republic of China

  • Bereaved people react outside the Seoul western district court in Seoul where three police officers were given jail sentences but Yongsan city ward officials were acquitted over the Itaewon crowd crush

    Seoul crowd crush
    Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster

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South & central Asia

  • An Indian man with a fishing net by the sea, with a power plant in the distance behind him

    Global development
    The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers’ fight with a giant

  • River and mountains around the peak of Everest

    Mount Everest
    Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers

  • A woman walks through muddy water

    Nepal
    More than 200 dead in Nepal floods, as parts of Kathmandu left under water

  • Tanu Bai, left, and Maha Devi, at the Satya Jeevan Leprosy Society in New Delhi

    Global health
    ‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

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Pictures & video

  • New Zealand pilot speaks to family after release by West Papua rebels – video

  • The baby pygmy hippo has become a viral sensation on social media worldwide

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    Thai zoo moves to patent image of viral baby hippo Moo Deng – video

    The baby pygmy hippo has become a viral sensation on social media worldwide
  • Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up when the 20kg snake attacked her

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    Large python filmed coiled around woman in Thailand – video

    Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up when the 20kg snake attacked her
  • At least 12 people have died, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured, according to the Lebanese health minister

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    CCTV captures pagers simultaneously exploding across Lebanon – video report

  • A two-month-old pygmy hippo has become an internet sensation across Thailand and beyond, after footage of her wobbling around her enclosure, nibbling her zookeeper and being sprayed with water went viral online

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    Moo-Deng: the two-month-old baby pygmy hippo becoming an online giant – video

  • Historic kabutarkhana/pigeon home illuminated by a passing motorcycle in the historic town of Rander beside Surat.

    Reinterpreting the first English diplomatic mission to India – in pictures

  • Pope Francis waves to the crowd on the day of the Holy Mass at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu in Dili, East Timor.

    Pope Francis tours Asia and the Pacific – in pictures

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