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North Korea expresses support for Moscow over mutiny 25 Jun 2023 - 03:15 pm
File photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Pakistan to raise taxes in final push for IMF loan 24 Jun 2023 - 05:27 pm
File photo: Karachi, Pakistan
Beijing sizzles under worst heat wave and authorities ask people to stay indoors 24 Jun 2023 - 01:48 pm
People shelter from the sun under umbrellas after visiting the Forbidden City during a heatwave in Beijing on June 24, 2023. Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP
Japan records the first-ever fatal case of the Oz Virus worldwide 24 Jun 2023 - 12:55 pm
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Indian opposition parties join hands to defeat governing party in next elections 23 Jun 2023 - 08:19 pm
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks on before a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies, in the East Room the White House in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
280 Pakistan families fear relatives died in boat disaster off Greece 23 Jun 2023 - 02:12 pm
File photo of  migrants onboard a fishing vessel in the waters off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Hellenic Coastguard / AFP)
India rate setter asks RBI to talk clearly for greater good 23 Jun 2023 - 01:57 pm
Reuters file photo
Flooding displaces tens of thousands and kills 1 as heavy monsoon rains batter Indian villages 23 Jun 2023 - 10:03 am
People wade through a flooded road in Ghograpar village of Nalbari district, in India's Assam state. (Photo by Biju BORO / AFP)
Iconic Hong Kong dragon boat races are back in full force 22 Jun 2023 - 04:24 pm
Competitors take part in dragon boat races held to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in the Aberdeen typhoon shelter in Hong Kong on June 22, 2023. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)
Northern China encounters highest registered temperatures in years 22 Jun 2023 - 12:25 pm
A man swims with his dog in a canal in Beijing on June 22, 2023. Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP
Pakistan village mourns 24 feared dead in Greek migrant tragedy 21 Jun 2023 - 01:43 pm
In this picture taken on June 20, 2023, relatives of migrants, who went missing after an overloaded trawler capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea, wait to provide DNA samples at a hospital in Bandli village, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. (Photo by Sajjad QAYYUM / AFP)
Global warming could lead to Himalayan glaciers to loose 80% of its volume if not controlled 20 Jun 2023 - 11:56 am
This aerial shows Passu glacier near Passu village in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region on June 10, 2022. Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP
Japan's emperor meets with Indonesian president on his first official foreign trip as monarch 19 Jun 2023 - 12:33 pm
Japan's Emperor Naruhito (3rd L) and Empress Masako (2nd L) visit the Bogor Botanical with Indonesian President Joko Widodo (3rd R) and First Lady Iriana Widodo (2nd R) in Bogor on June 19, 2023. (Photo by WILLY KURNIAWAN / POOL / AFP)
Bangladeshi hangman freed after sentence cut for killing fellow prisoners 18 Jun 2023 - 06:11 pm
Shahjahan Bhuiyan (second left) walks out from jail after his release in Keraniganj on June 18, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Pakistan arrests 10 human trafficking suspects after boat mishap in Greece 18 Jun 2023 - 05:06 pm
This image released by The Hellenic Coastguard on June 14, 2023, shows an aerial view taken from a rescue helicopter, of migrants onboard a fishing vessel in the waters off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Hellenic Coastguard / AFP)
India's searing heatwave claims almost 100 lives 18 Jun 2023 - 04:30 pm
File Photo: A labourer drinks water from a public drinking water tap on a hot summer day in the old quarters of Delhi, India, May 4, 2022. (Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis)
Philippine ferry catches fire at sea, all 120 people aboard rescued 18 Jun 2023 - 09:48 am
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Blinken set for high-stakes China visit with tensions rising and breakthrough prospects low 17 Jun 2023 - 02:40 pm
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Drew Angerer / AFP