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One dead in Australia floods as authorities order evacuation 02 Feb 2025 - 01:54 pm
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China issues bonds worth $11 trillion in 2024 01 Feb 2025 - 07:19 pm
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Indian troops kill eight Maoist rebels 01 Feb 2025 - 04:40 pm
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India unveils income tax cuts to boost slowing economy 01 Feb 2025 - 02:53 pm
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (C) along with minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary (C, left) poses as she leaves the ministry of finance to present the annual budget at the parliament in New Delhi on February 1, 2025. (Photo by Money Sharma / AFP)
Rescuers build slope to reach man in Japan sinkhole 01 Feb 2025 - 01:04 pm
A worker controls the traffic as rescue operations continue for the truck driver in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Philip Fong / AFP)
South Korea's language museum catches fire 01 Feb 2025 - 10:46 am
Fire engines are seen on a road as smoke rises from the roof of the National Hangeul Museum in Seoul on February 1, 2025. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Afghan women cricketers get help from new global refugee fund 31 Jan 2025 - 08:00 pm
Afghanistan Women's XI players say a prayer before the cricket match between Afghanistan Women's XI and Cricket Without Borders XI at Junction Oval in Melbourne on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Martin Keep / AFP)
Japan sinkhole grows to almost Olympic pool length 31 Jan 2025 - 05:38 pm
This photo shows a general view of a collapsed road at a prefectural road intersection, in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 30, 2025. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Crowds welcome sumo's newest grand champion in ancient ceremony 31 Jan 2025 - 03:48 pm
Mongolian born sumo wrestler and new yokozuna, or grand champion, Hoshoryu (back) takes part in the ring-entering ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on January 31, 2025. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
Philippines arrests 100 suspects in online scam farm raid 31 Jan 2025 - 02:32 pm
Workers sit at their desks during a raid by agents of the Presidential Anti-Organised Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the National Bureau of Investigation at an office of a suspected online scam farm in Manila on January 31, 2025. Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP
South Korea watchdog to question DeepSeek over user data 31 Jan 2025 - 02:18 pm
This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company which develops open-source large language models, in Toulouse, southwestern France on January 29, 2025. Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP
Trio of rare tiger cubs spotted in Thai national park 31 Jan 2025 - 02:12 pm
This screenshot from handout trap camera footage taken on July 11, 2024 and released on January 29, 2025 on the Facebook page of Kaeng Krachan National Park shows a Bengal tiger walking with three cubs in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand's Phetchaburi province. Photo by Handout / Kaeng Krachan National Park / AFP
Two soldiers, six militants killed in Pakistan security operation 30 Jan 2025 - 09:44 pm
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Lion cub gifted to Pakistani YouTube star causes wedding chaos 30 Jan 2025 - 08:55 pm
A lion cub confiscated from Pakistani YouTube star Rajab Butt, is pictured at a safari zoo in Lahore on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Arif Ali / AFP) 
Philippines' Marcos to seek Trump meeting on immigration crackdown 30 Jan 2025 - 08:15 pm
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UN probe warns Myanmar violence may worsen, four years since coup 30 Jan 2025 - 07:47 pm
People gather around a boat carrying newly-arrived Rohingya refugees, after authorities prevented the refugees from disembarking and ordered them to remain on board the vessel, at Leuge Beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Cek MAD / AFP)
Bangladesh probes spate of turtle deaths 30 Jan 2025 - 03:24 pm
Bangladeshi marine rescuers prepare to bury a dead olive ridley sea turtle at a beach in Cox's Bazar on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Suzauddin Rubel / AFP)
1.2 million in Japan told to use less water to help rescue man from sinkhole 30 Jan 2025 - 02:12 pm
Rescue operations continue for a truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole at in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Philip Fong / AFP)