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Foody tale ending: Shanghai Disney allows food, but not durian 11 Sep 2019 - 10:28 am
File photo of Shanghai Disney Resort used as representation,  June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
Thousands pray for rain in Indonesia as forests go up in smoke 11 Sep 2019 - 10:26 am
Indonesian Muslims pray for rain during a long drought season and haze in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, September 11, 2019, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Rony Muharrman/ via REUTERS
China boosts soft power in Pakistan via film and social media 11 Sep 2019 - 09:36 am
FILE PHOTO: Pakistani men sign up for Chinese language classes at the China Pak Cultural Educational Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/File Photo
'Not a chance' - Philippine minister says no access for UN drugs war probe 11 Sep 2019 - 09:30 am
File photo of Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. attends a news conference after talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Japan's Abe shakes up cabinet, brings in rising star 11 Sep 2019 - 09:16 am
Japan's newly-appointed Environment and Nuclear Disaster Minister Shinjiro Koizumi enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on September 11, 2019. AFP / Toshifumi Kitamura
Archbishop of Canterbury prostrates over 1919 India massacre 11 Sep 2019 - 08:47 am
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby pays tribute to the martyrs at the Jallianwala Bagh martyrs memorial in Amritsar on September 10, 2019. / AFP / NARINDER NANU
North Korean tests put pressure on Washington 10 Sep 2019 - 07:23 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump. (AFP Saul Loeb &  Ed Jones)
Japan still weighing dump of Fukushima radioactive water into ocean 10 Sep 2019 - 02:08 pm
FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 18, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
Hong Kong’s Lam opposes US Bill as protesters appeal to Trump 10 Sep 2019 - 12:48 pm
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam addresses a news conference in Hong Kong, China September 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Malaysia sends half a million face masks to haze-hit state, shuts schools 10 Sep 2019 - 11:05 am
Petronas Twin Towers are shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 9, 2019. Picture taken on September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
N. Korea fires 'projectiles' after offering talks with US 10 Sep 2019 - 10:44 am
A woman walks past a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on September 10, 2019. AFP / Jung Yeon-je
Taliban vows to fight on after Trump says talks are 'dead' 10 Sep 2019 - 10:40 am
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India's 'Dirty Harry' draws curtains on bloody career 10 Sep 2019 - 10:10 am
In this file photo taken on March 14, 2005 Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma watches a screen showing the entrance to his house in Mumbai. India's real-life Dirty Harry who made his name by gunning down gangsters in the streets of Mumbai has resigned a
Hong Kong leader tells US not to 'interfere' after fresh protests 10 Sep 2019 - 09:15 am
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam addresses a news conference in Hong Kong, China September 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Australians flee homes as police investigate suspicious fires 10 Sep 2019 - 08:49 am
Firefighters battle bushfires in Angourie, northern New South Wales, Australia, September 10, 2019. AAP Image/Jason O'Brien/via REUTERS
Japan's Abe, headed for longest premiership, seeks stability in cabinet rejig 10 Sep 2019 - 08:32 am
File photo of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a speech as he takes part in a plenary session of Eastern Economic Forum at far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on September 5, 2019. / AFP / TASS Host Photo Agency / Vladimir SMIRNOV
Jack Ma ends 20-year reign over Alibaba wealth creation empire 10 Sep 2019 - 07:58 am
(FILES) This file photo taken on November 11, 2016 shows Alibaba chairman Jack Ma speaking on stage during the Tmall 11:11 Global Shopping Festival gala in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. AFP / STR
Patients die as Manila traffic jams block ambulances 09 Sep 2019 - 06:53 pm
This photo taken on July 18, 2019 shows first responders loading a patient into their ambulance at a bus station near Manila. AFP / Noel Celis