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China marks muted 5th anniversary of first Covid death 11 Jan 2025 - 01:59 pm
This combination photograph created on December 23, 2024 shows medical staff members, wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, walking outside the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on January 25, 2020 (top) and a view of the same location at the hospital entrance on December 21, 2024, ahead of the fifth anniversary of China confirming its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus. Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP
Thousands of South Koreans protest as president digs heels in 11 Jan 2025 - 12:22 pm
Supporters of impeached South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol wave flags and shout slogans during a rally in Gwanghwamun in Seoul on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Anthony Wallace / AFP)
Indian business leader sparks outcry with call for Sunday work 11 Jan 2025 - 10:58 am
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UK treasurer says London 'natural home' for Chinese finance 11 Jan 2025 - 10:36 am
British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves (L) meets Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng before the start of the Fourth China-UK Financial Services Summit in Beijing in Beijing on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila / Pool / AFP)
Japan to give Indonesia high-speed patrol boats in security deal 11 Jan 2025 - 10:30 am
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (R) and Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba give a press statement following their meeting at the presidential palace in Bogor, West Java, on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Bay Ismoyo / AFP)
Jeju Air crash black boxes stopped recording before flight crashed: South Korea 11 Jan 2025 - 08:55 am
(Files) This undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on January 1, 2025 shows the flight data recorder (FDR) retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216. (Photo by Handout / South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport / AFP)
Malala Yousafzai 'overwhelmed and happy' to be back in Pakistan 11 Jan 2025 - 08:46 am
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai (2R) arrives to attend an international summit on 'Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities', in Islamabad on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Zain Zaman Janjua / AFP)
Security chief of South Korea's impeached President Yoon resigns 10 Jan 2025 - 01:11 pm
Head of the Presidential Security Service (PSS) Park Chong-jun (C) arrives outside the National Office of Investigation in Seoul on January 10, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Hammer attacker wounds 8 at Japanese university: media 10 Jan 2025 - 12:23 pm
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Nepal court orders bail for politician accused of fraud 09 Jan 2025 - 06:09 pm
Peninsula
Biggest flu outbreak in 25 years hits Japan 09 Jan 2025 - 03:54 pm
Pedestrians walk past high drifts of snow along a street in the northern Japanese city of Aomori on January 9, 2025. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT
Six dead in India's Tirupati temple stampede 09 Jan 2025 - 09:53 am
Peninsula
Grief and nostalgia in India's 'Jimmy Carter village' 08 Jan 2025 - 10:43 pm
Resident Rajiv Kumar shows a photograph at his shop near Carterpuri village in Gurgaon on January 7, 2025, picturing late former US president Jimmy Carter and his wife Eleanor Rosalynn Carter during their visit to the eponymous village in 1978. (Photo by Money Sharma / AFP)
In bitter cold, rescuers race against time to tackle aftermath of Xizang quake 08 Jan 2025 - 09:02 pm
Rescuers assemble beds for quake-affected residents at a resettlement site in a village in Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Vietnam offers cash rewards for traffic offender snitches 08 Jan 2025 - 07:17 pm
A man rides a motorbike in front of vehicles waiting at a red light at an intersection in Hanoi on January 8, 2025. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)
North Korea bans hot dogs due to ‘Western ties’ 08 Jan 2025 - 06:04 pm
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Hundreds rally for South Korea's Yoon as new arrest bid beckons 08 Jan 2025 - 04:46 pm
Security personnel check vehicles at the entrance gate of the presidential residence of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol, as seen from a hill in Seoul on January 8, 2025. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Philippines arrests 400 foreigners in scam centre raid 08 Jan 2025 - 04:46 pm
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