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  • A silhouetted figure passes a TV screen showing Kim Jong Un speaking, below a Samsung sign

    Kim Jong-un crosses newly opened bridge into China

    North Korean leader travels over New Yalu River Bridge to meet senior Communist party member
  • A structure built for a traditional Taoist religious ceremony lies collapsed after being battered by winds

    Typhoon Champi kills one and injures more than 500 in Taiwan as it heads to China

  • Newly opened New Yalu River Bridge as seen from DandongResidents sit at a viewing platform overlooking the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge, which connects North Korea's Sinuiju from China's Dandong New Zone, in Dandong, Liaoning province, China October 15, 2026. REUTERS/Florence Lo

    North Korea has opened up bridges to Russia and China – in which direction will it go?

  • Afghan women's rights defenders and civil activists call on the Taliban for the preservation of their achievements and education, in front of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021

    Remembering a time when Afghan women had a voice and agency

  • Chinese TV footage shows people running out of a building and debris falling as a magnitude-7 earthquake strikes

    People evacuate building in Tibet as powerful earthquake strikes – video

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  • A firefighter pumps out water from a flooded garage

    Severe flooding in eastern Spain and UK hit by first named storm of winter

  • Rescuers use a torch while searching through building ruins in Nagqu city after the 7.0-magnitude quake in the northern Tibet region of China on Thursday night

    Magnitude-7 earthquake hits Tibet, killing at least 16 and destroying hundreds of homes

  • People queue to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the 2019 independence referendum.

    Bougainville
    ‘Cut the umbilical cord’: Bougainville’s bid to break away from Papua New Guinea faces reckoning

  • Comedian Huang Yi-hao, in a blue traditional jacket, gestures while speaking on stage

    Taiwan
    Taiwan charges five men over plot to run over comedian for his Xi Jinping jokes

  • A shark named Bukangi swims near a floating platform during an effort to guide it from a canal

    South Korea
    The night watch: the YouTubers who are guardians of a shark stuck in a South Korean canal

  • Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi speaks into a microphone while holding papers at a podium

    Sanae Takaichi
    Sanae Takaichi took on Japan’s male-dominated politics and won – can she survive a second year in power?

  • Pill blister packs sit on a wooden table beside banknotes and credit cards

    Global development
    India slashes cost of cancer drugs after court rules mark-ups are ‘extortion’

  • Aung San Suu Kyi sits at a table speaking on a corded telephone

    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Aung San Suu Kyi’s son speaks to detained former Myanmar leader for first time in five years

  • John Staley, with a white beard and glasses, looks across a hilltop landscape

    Oxfam
    John Staley obituary

  • Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka walk out from a police station

    India
    Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movement

Pictures & video

  • Devotees carry a red shrine on poles through smoke during Thailand's vegetarian festival

    From piercings to purification: Thailand’s 2026 vegetarian festival – in pictures

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