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Indonesia seizes cooking oil shipment bound for East Timor
Indonesia has impounded at least 81,000 litres of cooking oil bound for East Timor, the trade ministry said, as the Southeast Asian ...Curfew in Sri Lanka after day of deadly unrest
Sri Lanka deployed thousands of troops and police Tuesday to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence ...Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again
Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past ...Heavy rain and floods in Afghanistan kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes
Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a ...North Korea fires ballistic missile off east coast ahead of S.Korea inauguration
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, about a ...Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque, its leader says
A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a ...Myanmar’s Suu Kyi handed 5 year jail term for corruption
A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her ...Myanmar junta says 1,600 prisoners to be freed in holiday amnesty
Relatives of hundreds of prisoners gathered outside Myanmar’s Insein Prison on Sunday after the military government announced the release of 1,600 prisoners ...Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China’s longest crewed space mission
Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country’s longest crewed space ...Thousands displaced after typhoon Megi hits Philippines
Philippine authorities on Wednesday struggled to distribute aid to tens of thousands of displaced people sheltering in evacuation centres after typhoon Megi ...
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