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World Bank offers disaster-hit Indonesia $1 bn in loans 14 Oct 2018 - 09:25 am
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva greet children while visiting a camp for displaced earthquake and liquefaction victims in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Death toll in Afghan election rally attack rises to 22 14 Oct 2018 - 08:18 am
Afghan relatives of victims looks on as they stand in front of a hospital following a bomb attack in Taloqan in northeastern Takhar province on October 13, 2018. AFP / NASEER SADEQ
Bodies of nine climbers killed on Nepal peak found 14 Oct 2018 - 08:11 am
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7 killed, 2 missing after storm sweeps Nepal mountain 13 Oct 2018 - 05:15 pm
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12 feared dead in India cyclone shelter swamped by landslide 13 Oct 2018 - 02:18 pm
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United Nations urges Australia to evacuate offshore refugees over health crisis 13 Oct 2018 - 10:38 am
Two asylum-seekers look at the ocean in front of the community-based camp for families with children on the island of Nauru, October 2014.  © UNHCR/Vlad Sokhin
Minor blast injures at least 3 people in India's northeast 13 Oct 2018 - 10:35 am
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Snowstorm kills at least eight climbers on Nepal peak: officials 13 Oct 2018 - 09:59 am
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Japan PM Abe to make rare China visit 12 Oct 2018 - 11:02 am
 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during a joint press announcement for the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo on October 9, 2018. / AFP / POOL / FRANCK ROBICHON
North, South Korea to hold high-level talks on Oct. 15 12 Oct 2018 - 10:02 am
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On the scent: India mulls Calvin Klein to lure man-eating tigress 11 Oct 2018 - 11:50 am
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Myanmar newspaper journalists held after handing themselves in to police 10 Oct 2018 - 11:21 pm
Kyaw Zaw Linn, the editor in charge at Eleven Media arrives after being detained at Tamwe court in Yangon, Myanmar, October 10, 2018. Reuters/Ann Wang
Frustration, despair grow in Indonesia quake city over planned new homes 10 Oct 2018 - 11:21 pm
Passengers boarding a commercial flight walk past packages of aid at the Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport in Palu on October 10, 2018, days after the airport reopened following the September 28 earthquake and tsunami.  AFP / Adek Berry
Five men and the sea: huge marlin sinks Filipino fishing boat 10 Oct 2018 - 12:01 pm
This handout photo taken on October 8, 2018 and released on October 10 by the US Navy Seventh Fleet shows Philippine fishermen, whose boat was sunk by a marlin, being rescued by US Navy personnel onto a craft from the USS Wally Schirra in the South China
Interpol's former Chinese chief accused of bribery 10 Oct 2018 - 11:05 am
FILE PHOTO: INTERPOL President Meng Hongwei poses during a visit to the headquarters of International Police Organisation in Lyon, France, May 8, 2018. Jeff Pachoud/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
Bangladesh sentences 19 to death over 2004 attack 10 Oct 2018 - 10:37 am
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India train cars derail, at least 5 people killed, 35 hurt 10 Oct 2018 - 09:37 am
National Disaster Response Force and police personnel carry on rescue works at the site where the engine of the New Farakka Express train derailed along with eight coaches near Harchandpur Railway station in Rae Bareli on October 10, 2018.  AFP / Sanjay K
Wife of ex-Interpol boss disappeared in China describes threats 09 Oct 2018 - 08:55 pm
Grace, the wife of the missing Interpol president Meng Hongwey, talks to journalists on October 7, 2018 in Lyon during a press conference during which she did not want her face to be shown, a day after Interpol demanded an official