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India's Modi makes surprise China border visit after clash

Both sides have blamed each other for the incident.

Jul 3, 2020

By AFP News

India

Hong Kong marks handover anniversary with new security law arrests

Gatherings of more than 50 people are currently banned under anti-coronavirus laws.

Jul 1, 2020

By Jerome Taylor, Yan Zhao

Hong Kong

TikTok denies sharing Indian user data with China

Modi is due to address the nation again at 4:00 pm (1030 GMT) on Tuesday.

Jun 30, 2020

By Bhuvan Bagga

India

South Korea, US mark 70th anniversary of Korean War

The North has a different history of the conflict, which it knows as the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War.

Jun 25, 2020

By AFP News

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Protests against China in India after border clash

India, China hold talks to de-escalate deadly border tensions

The two nations' foreign ministers spoke by telephone to calm nerves after a high-altitude melee involving fists, rocks and clubs.

Jun 18, 2020

By Aishwarya Kumar with Parvaiz Bukhari in Srinagar and Jing Xuan Teng in Beijing

India

North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office near border with South

An explosion was heard and smoke seen rising from the long-shuttered joint industrial zone in Kaesong.

Jun 16, 2020

By AFP News

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India says three soldiers killed in clash on Chinese border

On May 9, several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a clash involving fists and stone-throwing.

Jun 16, 2020

By AFP News

India

Hippos terrorise Kenyans as floodwaters increase human-animal conflict

Hippos and crocodiles have attacked and killed people living in counties close to Lake Victoria.

May 29, 2020

By Agrima Tikader

Kenya

German court tries IS jihadist over Yazidi genocide

A Yazidi girl was held as a slave and allowed to die of thirst in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2015.

Apr 24, 2020

By Annalena Dorner

Iraq Isis Islamic State

North Korea fires multiple projectiles: South's military

Pyongyang is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes from the United Nations Security Council, US, South Korea and others.

Mar 9, 2020

By AFP News

North Korea Japan

Huawei loses legal challenge against US federal purchase ban

Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada in 2018 on a US warrant.

Feb 19, 2020

By AFP News

China expels Wall Street Journal reporters over 'racist' headline

The expulsion came as Beijing also slammed Washington's decision to tighten rules on Chinese state media organisations in the United States.

Feb 19, 2020

By Eva Xiao

Ukraine International Airline plane crash

Iran denies 'cover-up' as anger mounts over downed airliner

The Kiev-bound plane was knocked out of the sky hours after Tehran had launched a wave of missiles at US troops in Iraq.

Jan 14, 2020

By David Vujanovic

Iran

Iran admits unintentionally shooting down Ukrainian Airliner

Iran's official IRNA news agency had published a statement from the military saying the Boeing 737 was mistaken for a "hostile plane."

Jan 11, 2020

By Marc Jourdier

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Iran denies missile downed Ukrainian plane

Investigators are pursuing several possibilities, including engine failure, a missile strike or an act of terror.

Jan 10, 2020

By AFP News

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More than 10,000 camels and feral horses being shot in South Australia

Thousands of camels and feral horses are being culled over a five-day period in drought-hit South Australia.

Jan 9, 2020

By Agrima Tikader

Grief and mourning after Iran plane crash kills 176

Both Canada and the United States called for a full investigation to determine the cause of Wednesday's crash.

Jan 9, 2020

By David Vujanovic with Ania Tsoukanova in Kiev

Ukraine Iran

Somali jihadists kill 3 Americans in attack on Kenya military base

Attackers breached heavy security at Camp Simba at dawn but were pushed back and four jihadists killed.

Jan 6, 2020

By Fran Blandy

Somalia Kenya

Defiant Indians protest nationwide against citizenship law

Modi has insisted that his government does not aim to marginalise Muslims with the new law.

Dec 19, 2019

By Jalees Andrabi

India

Elephant invasion: Three pachyderms walk into a tourist lodge in Zambia

Human-animal conflict highlighted again in drought-stricken Zambia as tourists left frozen in fear by three elephants raiding an open dining hall in a tourist lodge in search of food.

Dec 12, 2019

By Agrima Tikader

Climate Change

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