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Robots deployed for Fukushima radioactive debris removal 20 Aug 2025 - 02:43 pm
Peninsula
Seoul blocks elderly ex-North Korean spy from going North: civic group 20 Aug 2025 - 02:29 pm
Ahn Hak-sop (C), a former North Korean soldier, holds a North Korean flag near a military checkpoint on the Tongil bridge in the border city of Paju on August 20, 2025. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
More than 20 dead in fresh Pakistan monsoon rains 20 Aug 2025 - 11:33 am
Labourers work at a flooded construction site after heavy monsson rains in Karachi on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum / AFP)
Fireball lights up Japanese skies 20 Aug 2025 - 11:15 am
Screenshot of a video shared on social media.
Global footballers' union urges India to revive top league 19 Aug 2025 - 01:32 pm
Peninsula
HK scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos 19 Aug 2025 - 10:33 am
This picture taken on July 30, 2025 shows several yellow-crested cockatoos resting atop a light pole in the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood in Hong Kong. (Photo by Yan Zhao / AFP)
Survivors claw through rubble after deadly Pakistan cloudburst 19 Aug 2025 - 09:32 am
Rescue workers and residents search for victims in the debris of collapsed houses after a cloudburst in Dolari village, Swabi district, in northern Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi / AFP)
Russian President, Indian PM discuss prospects for long-term settlement in Ukraine 19 Aug 2025 - 12:19 am
File: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on October 5, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
Nepal eliminates rubella, says WHO 18 Aug 2025 - 10:35 pm
A group of students wait in line to get vaccinated against Measles-Rubella during the Outbreak Response Immunization campaign in Mahottari district of Madhesh Province in Nepal. (Photo: World Health Organization)
China seeks to reopen Australia canola trade as Canada ties sour 18 Aug 2025 - 10:00 pm
Canola plants in a field near Balliang, Victoria, Australia. (Photo by Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg)
Rain halts rescue operation after Pakistan floods kill hundreds 18 Aug 2025 - 02:59 pm
Villagers (center, L) stand near a building as floodwater levels rise in the Buner district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 18, 2025. Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP
Rooms of their own: women-only communities thrive in China 18 Aug 2025 - 12:42 pm
The photo taken on July 15, 2025 shows Chen Yani (C), also known as
Swatch pulls 'slanted eye' ad after Chinese social media uproar 18 Aug 2025 - 11:26 am
Swiss-made Swatch watches on display in their store on August 05, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
Australian court fines Qantas US$59 million for illegal layoffs 18 Aug 2025 - 07:51 am
A Qantas Airways Boeing 737 aircraft takes off from Sydney International Airport in Sydney on August 18, 2025. (Photo by David Gray / AFP)
Women bear brunt of Afghanistan's water scarcity 17 Aug 2025 - 10:18 pm
An Afghan woman with children takes a break as they haul water cans on wheelbarrows along a deserted street in the drought-ridden village of Bolak at Chahar Bolak district, Balkh province on July 10, 2025.  (Photo by Atif Aryan / AFP)
QRCS launches new health project for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh 17 Aug 2025 - 07:40 pm
Peninsula
Hopes for survivors wane as landslides, flooding bury Pakistan villages 17 Aug 2025 - 10:18 am
Locals collect woods from Noseri Dam near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad Qayyum / AFP)
Football and falls as first humanoid robot games launch in China 16 Aug 2025 - 10:32 am
Robots compete in a 5x5 football match during the World Humanoid robots games in Beijing on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Adek Berry / AFP)