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  • Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus.

    Bird flu outbreak kills dozens of tigers in Vietnam zoos

  • Military guard posts of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, front, are seen in Paju, near the border with North Korea.

    North Korean defector crashes stolen bus in failed bid to return home

    Defectors seeking to cross back into North Korea from the South are rare, though many struggle to adapt to life in their democratic, capitalist neighbour
  • Waves come over a wall onto a road where a car is driving

    Typhoon Krathon: one person killed and two missing in Taiwan

    Seventy also reported injured as schools, offices and financial markets shut and people are urged to stay at home

  • Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport

  • ‘Life is pretty brutal’: concerns in India over high-pressure corporate jobs

  • Indian police investigate ticket resales for Coldplay Mumbai gigs

  • Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand

  • Xi Jinping forecasts ‘rough seas’ on 75th anniversary of People’s Republic of China

  • Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster

  • Award-winning Cambodian journalist Mech Dara arrested, say rights groups

Asia Pacific

  • A man with a t-shirt reading "Kanaky resistance" looks on in the Pierre Lenquette district of Noumea, on 29 September 2024.

    New Caledonia
    New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister

  • Hong Kong’s court of final appeal in Central district

    Hong Kong
    British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court

  • Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a press conference in Tokyo.

    Japan
    Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports

  • Participants in a crowd wave flags and punch the air as a man on stage lifts a framed certificate

    New Zealand
    New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka

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South & central Asia

  • River and mountains around the peak of Everest

    Mount Everest
    Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers

  • A woman walks through muddy water

    Nepal
    More than 200 dead in Nepal floods, as parts of Kathmandu left under water

  • Tanu Bai, left, and Maha Devi, at the Satya Jeevan Leprosy Society in New Delhi

    Global health
    ‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

  • Violent clashes between protesters and police take place in Karachi over Hezbollah leader's death

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    Pakistan
    Violent clashes in Pakistan after Hezbollah leader's assassination – video

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Pictures & video

  • New Zealand pilot speaks to family after release by West Papua rebels – video

  • The baby pygmy hippo has become a viral sensation on social media worldwide

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    Thai zoo moves to patent image of viral baby hippo Moo Deng – video

    The baby pygmy hippo has become a viral sensation on social media worldwide
  • Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up when the 20kg snake attacked her

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    Large python filmed coiled around woman in Thailand – video

    Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up when the 20kg snake attacked her
  • At least 12 people have died, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured, according to the Lebanese health minister

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    CCTV captures pagers simultaneously exploding across Lebanon – video report

  • A two-month-old pygmy hippo has become an internet sensation across Thailand and beyond, after footage of her wobbling around her enclosure, nibbling her zookeeper and being sprayed with water went viral online

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    Moo-Deng: the two-month-old baby pygmy hippo becoming an online giant – video

  • Historic kabutarkhana/pigeon home illuminated by a passing motorcycle in the historic town of Rander beside Surat.

    Reinterpreting the first English diplomatic mission to India – in pictures

  • Pope Francis waves to the crowd on the day of the Holy Mass at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu in Dili, East Timor.

    Pope Francis tours Asia and the Pacific – in pictures

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