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Rescue personnel work at the crash site after a bus fell into a ravine in Sumedang, West Java Province, Indonesia March 10, 2021, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. …

Protesters create a shield formation in Nyaung-U, Myanmar. (Still image from a video obtained from social media by Reuters.) Myanmar’s major trade unions called on members to shut down the …

People make their to work in Tokyo The Japanese government plans to extend a state of emergency to combat COVID-19 for Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures until March 21, two …

Myanmar citizens living in India hold placards and banners during a protest Indian security forces stepped up patrols on the border with Myanmar on Friday to stop refugees entering after …

File photo: Travellers wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak wait at check-in counters of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Foreign visitors have been upset by China’s anal swab …

China is today the world’s largest emitter of planet-heating gases, responsible for about 28 per cent of total global emissions China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental …

Sri Lankan magistrate Wasantha Ramanayake, right, and police officers outside a house where the girl was canned to death in Delgoda [Sudath Pubudu Keerthi/AP] Police in Sri Lanka say they …

Naseeb Anjum, lawyer for Nabeel Masih, a Christian man convicted while still a teenager in 2018 of blasphemy [KM Chaudary/AP] A Pakistani court has granted bail to a Christian man …

Image adapted from: Thadaco A “superhero” delivery driver in Hanoi has saved a two-year-old girl who fell from a 12th-floor balcony. Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, was sitting in his car …

Demonstrators hold shields with attached pictures of Myanmar’s military junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing, during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer TPX …