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Asia

  • Tony and Cherie Blair pose for pictures at the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, Mumbai.

    Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event

  • A man holds a paint palette in one hand and touches a paintbrush to the finished portraits with the other

    Ambani wedding: after months of celebrations, the ‘Windsors of India’ finally set to marry

    Power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant set to marry in Mumbai with entire spectacle likely to cost upwards of $600m
  • A person shops for cooking oil in Beijing.

    App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled

    App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandal

  • Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

  • Family wants answers after ‘horrific’ deaths of Australian couple and relative in Philippine hotel

  • Nato summit: US announces new $225m military aid package for Ukraine – as it happened

  • US, Canada and Finland form ‘Ice Pact’ to project influence into Arctic region

  • China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato

  • Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil

  • China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects

Asia Pacific

  • ONE TIME USE ONLY. Illustration for the Pacific Project. Western countries security deals with Pacific Nations. Final

    Fiji
    Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty

  • A crate of snakes

    China
    Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers

  • People sit under parasols on a bench in Tokyo, Japan, amid extreme heat that has seen authorities issue ‘danger’-level safety alerts.

    Japan
    Japan adds ‘most severe’ category to its heatstroke index amid deadly summer

  • Lonely person standing by the sea, looking out into the distance in Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

    New Zealand
    New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages

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South & central Asia

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    Afghanistan
    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • The impossibility of putting a number on happiness is quickly revealed … Agent of Happiness.

    Film
    Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

  • X screengrab opf Kamran Dawar who was killed in Pakistan

    Pakistan
    Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year

  • Modi made the remarks during his first visit to Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022

    Narendra Modi
    Modi tells Putin that the 'heart bleeds' when innocent children are killed – video

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Pictures & video

  • Heavy rains flood streets and trap hundreds in China – video report

  • This is the first time India's prime minister has visited Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022

    0:47

    Vladimir Putin takes Narendra Modi for a drive and shows him his horses – video

    This is the first time India's prime minister has visited Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022
  • Scores of people were reportedly killed as crowds left a sermon celebrating the Hindu deity Shiva in Hathras, south-east of Delhi

    1:06

    Injured rushed to hospital after crowd crush at Hindu gathering in India – video

    Scores of people were reportedly killed as crowds left a sermon celebrating the Hindu deity Shiva in Hathras, south-east of Delhi
  • Space rocket soars straight up into the air before losing power, falling back down to earth and exploding into flames in China

    1:08

    Chinese space rocket crashes into hillside after accidental launch – video

  • The Chinese lunar probe retrieved the first ever soil samples from the moon's far side, marking a major milestone for Beijing's space program

    0:55

    China lunar probe returns from moon carrying first ever soil samples from its far side – video

  • Footage released by Russian state TV showed the two leaders driving around what appeared to be a park in Pyongyang

    0:58

    Putin takes Kim Jong-un for a drive in Russian luxury car – video

  • Russian president is greeted by crowds and fanfare on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years

    0:49

    Kim Jong-un welcomes Vladimir Putin at official ceremony in Pyongyang – video

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