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Australia's bushfire evacuees prepare for another night on the beaches 05 Jan 2020 - 11:28 am
Local resident Dave Iredale walks past ash from bushfires washed up on a beach in Merimbula, in Australia's New South Wales state on January 5, 2020. Australians on January 5 counted the cost from a day of catastrophic bushfires that caused
Australia's 'insurance' koala population halved by bushfires 05 Jan 2020 - 10:47 am
File photo of a rescued kaola receiving treatment in Port Macquarie. AFP
Biggest bloom: 'world's largest' flower spotted in Indonesia 05 Jan 2020 - 10:23 am
A fleshy red flower with white blister-like spots on its enormous petals and measuring a whopping 111 centimetres (3.6 feet) in diameter at the Maninjau nature preserve in Agam, West Sumatra. AFP / West Sumatra BKSDA
Australia reels after another day of fire fury 05 Jan 2020 - 09:26 am
Residents commute on a road through thick smoke from bushfires in Bemboka, in Australia's New South Wales state on January 5, 2020. AFP / SAEED KHAN
Cambodia building collapse kills 36 people, injures 23 others 05 Jan 2020 - 08:48 am
Rescue personnel work at the site where an under-construction building collapsed on January 3, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on January 5, 2020. AFP / TANG CHHIN Sothy
After Indonesia's deadly floods, few hear climate 'wake up call' 05 Jan 2020 - 08:32 am
A man rides a motorbike through the mud after floods hit a residential area in Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Thousands in shelters as Indonesia flood death toll hits 60 04 Jan 2020 - 06:05 pm
Men collecting damaged items ride on the back of a car through the mud, at a residential area affected by floods in Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Tens of thousands march in southern India to protest citizenship law 04 Jan 2020 - 03:45 pm
Demonstrators hold placards and flags as they attend a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Hyderabad, India, January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vinod Babu
Ghosn lawyer feels betrayal, sympathy over tycoon's Japan escape 04 Jan 2020 - 02:04 pm
FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato
China replaces top envoy to Hong Kong: state media 04 Jan 2020 - 02:03 pm
Peninsula
China removes Hong Kong liaison office head Wang Zhimin 04 Jan 2020 - 02:00 pm
Teachers and pro-democracy supporters hold placards as they take part in a rally to support teachers at Edinburgh Place in the Central district of Hong Kong on January 3, 2020. AFP / Philip Fong
Hong Kong steps up response to mystery disease from China 04 Jan 2020 - 01:59 pm
Peninsula
China Plans to Increase High-Speed Railway Network by 2,000 Kilometers 04 Jan 2020 - 11:52 am
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Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Flooding in Jakarta Kills 53 04 Jan 2020 - 10:11 am
Indonesians clean their homes and cutlery along the river in Jakarta on January 3, 2020, after flooding triggered by heavy rain which started on New Year's Eve hit the area. / AFP / BAY ISMOYO
Search in Cambodia resumes after building collapse kills 5 04 Jan 2020 - 10:01 am
Rescue personnel work at the site where an under-construction building on January 3 collapsed, trapping and killing workers, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on January 4, 2020. Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the r
Australian PM calls up reservists as fire threats escalate 04 Jan 2020 - 09:51 am
A handout photo taken and received on December 31, 2019 from the State Government of Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region.
Pakistan to provide free healthcare for trans people 03 Jan 2020 - 06:50 pm
Representative image (Mark Makela / Getty Images / AFP)
Giant new rallies slam Indian government's citizenship law 03 Jan 2020 - 05:13 pm
Demonstrators display placards as they attend a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, January 3, 2020. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri