At least 25 dead after suicide bomb blast at educational center in Kabul
By Masoud Popalzai, Rhea Mogul, Irene Nasser, Alex Stambaugh and Ehsan Popalzai CNN A suicide bomb attack on an education center in Kabul has killed…
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They were tortured under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Snr. Now they fear their stories are being erased
By Kathleen Magramo, CNN When Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr. met US President Joe Biden in New York last week,…
Continue ReadingVatican secretly disciplined Nobel-winning bishop from East Timor over alleged abuse of minors
By Reuters The Vatican on Thursday acknowledged that it had secretly disciplined East Timor bishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Ximenes Belo…
Continue ReadingLandmark Indian court ruling says rape includes marital rape and extends abortion rights to 24 weeks
By Manveena Suri and Jack Bantock, CNN Marital rape was defined as rape in a landmark decision by India’s Supreme Court on Thursday. The…
Continue ReadingLandmark Indian court ruling says rape includes marital rape and extends abortion rights to 24 weeks
CNN By Manveena Suri and Jack Bantock, CNN Marital rape was defined as rape in a landmark decision by India’s Supreme Court on Thursday. The…
Continue ReadingTaiwan’s giant panda ‘Tuan Tuan’ has life-threatening brain disease. China has been asked to help
By Kathleen Magramo and Eric Cheung, CNN China’s famous ‘Panda diplomacy’ faces a test — after a bear in Taiwan came down…
Continue ReadingMyanmar court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi and Australian economist to 3 years in prison
By Heather Chen and Sophie Jeong, CNN A Myanmar military court has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former adviser, Australian Sean…
Continue ReadingKamala Harris visits DMZ amid tension over North Korean missile launch
By Jessie Yeung and Jasmine Wright, CNN US Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea on…
Continue ReadingChina’s Xi reemerges after trip abroad quashing unfounded ‘coup’ rumors
By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance since returning from a trip to Central Asia, quashing unfounded…
Continue ReadingMyanmar beauty queen facing junta threat leaves Thailand for Canada
By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN A beauty queen from Myanmar who took refuge in Thailand after criticizing her home country’s ruling…
Continue ReadingHundreds of thousands evacuated as Typhoon Noru makes landfall in Vietnam’s Da Nang
By Kathleen Magramo, Taylor Ward and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN Typhoon Noru made landfall near Vietnam’s popular beach resort city of Da Nang…
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US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson missing below summit of Nepali ​​mountain
Pioneering ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has gone missing during an expedition in Nepal, according to one of her…
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Meta shuts down covert influence campaigns it says were run from China and Russia
Facebook parent company Meta announced Tuesday it had detected and shut down two separate networks of fake accounts engaged in covert influence…
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Asia’s richest man sees growing isolation for China
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani says that China “will feel increasingly isolated” and the “foremost champion of globalization” would find it hard…
Continue ReadingJapan holds controversial state funeral for assassinated leader Shinzo Abe
By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan bid farewell to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an elaborate state funeral Tuesday, despite public…
Continue ReadingUS Navy sends its most advanced surface warship to east Asia
By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy’s most advanced surface warship is showing its stealthy profile in the western Pacific on a mission that may…
Continue ReadingTyphoon Noru smashes into the Philippines, killing 5 and leaving villages in tatters
By Jessie Yeung and Jan Camenzind Broomby, CNN People in the northern Philippines were bracing for landslides on Monday after five rescue workers…
Continue ReadingHong Kong puts 90-year-old cardinal on trial over protest fund
By Kathleen Magramo, Lauren Faith Lau and Nectar Gan, CNN Cardinal Joseph Zen, a 90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong and outspoken critic of…
Continue ReadingFirst came the floods. Now, Pakistan’s children face a new disaster
By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul, Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Javed Iqbal, and Sameer Mandhro, CNN The baby sleeps listlessly on the hospital bed, her frail…
Continue ReadingPhilippines on red alert as Typhoon Noru roars in
By Idris Mukhtar, Junko Ogura and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Typhoon Noru blasted the Philippines main Luzon island on Sunday, prompting warnings that heavy…
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