French serial killer Charles ‘The Serpent’ Sobhraj released from Nepali jail
By Sugam Pokharel, Alex Hardie and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Charles Sobhraj, the infamous French serial killer who inspired the award-nominated TV series…
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North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea says
By Yoonjung Seo, Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, according to South Korean…
Continue ReadingQAnon members in Japan sentenced for breaking into Covid vaccination centers
By Jessie Yeung and Tetsu Sukegawa, CNN Several members of a QAnon group in Japan were sentenced by a Tokyo court on Thursday for breaking into…
Continue ReadingSave Rohingya from starvation at sea, UN refugee agency urges Asian countries
By Rhea Mogul, CNN The plight of nearly 200 Rohingya refugees adrift in the Indian Ocean for the past month is growing increasingly desperate, the…
Continue ReadingAs crematoriums fill up, China shifts how it counts Covid deaths
By Selina Wang, Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau For much of the pandemic, images of overflowing hospitals and busy funeral homes from the…
Continue ReadingTaliban orders NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work
CNN By Ehsan Popalzai, Sahar Akbarzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered all local and international…
Continue Reading‘What was their sacrifice for?’: Devastation for female Afghan students stripped of education
By Jessie Yeung, CNN For weeks, the 21-year-old student had been studying hard for the final exams of her first year of university. She was almost…
Continue ReadingUnited Nations Security Council demands release of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi in historic resolution
By Richard Roth, CNN The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Myanmar’s ruling military junta to release all political…
Continue ReadingNepal’s top court orders release of infamous French serial killer, Charles ‘The Serpent’ Sobhraj
By Alex Hardie and Sugam Pokharel, CNN Nepal’s top court on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of Charles Sobhraj, the infamous French…
Continue ReadingThai warship that sank, killing 6, had too few life jackets, admiral says
By Kocha Olarn, CNN Thai naval officials said Tuesday there were not enough life jackets for everyone aboard a warship that sank early Monday in…
Continue ReadingChildren among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say
By Rhea Mogul, CNN Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least…
Continue ReadingTaliban suspend university education for women in Afghanistan
By Ehsan Popalzai and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea ready to prove ICBM progress by firing at normal trajectory, Kim’s sister claims
By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea is ready to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a normal trajectory, leader…
Continue ReadingRussia and China unite for live-fire naval exercises in waters near Japan
By Brad Lendon, CNN China and Russia will begin a weeklong joint live-fire naval exercise in the East China Sea on Wednesday, the Russian Defense…
Continue ReadingThai warship sinks in severe weather, leaving 33 crew missing
CNN By Kocha Olarn and Brad Lendon, CNN A Royal Thai Navy warship sank in severe weather early Monday, leaving 33 of its crew of 106 sailors missing…
Continue ReadingChina could see nearly a million deaths as it exits zero-Covid, study says
By Nectar Gan and Cheng Cheng, CNN China’s abrupt and under-prepared exit from zero-Covid could lead to nearly 1 million deaths, according to a…
Continue ReadingThai warship sinks in severe weather, leaving 33 crew missing
By Kocha Olarn and Brad Lendon, CNN A Royal Thai Navy warship sank in severe weather early Monday, leaving 33 of its crew of 106 sailors missing in…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea’s middle aged men are dying ‘lonely deaths’
By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN South Korea has a problem: thousands of people, many middle aged and isolated, are dying alone each year, often…
Continue ReadingFuel tanker tunnel fire kills at least 19 in Afghanistan
By Ehsan Popalzai, CNN At least 19 people have been killed and 32 others were injured when a fuel tanker caught fire in a tunnel north of the Afghan…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea fires two more missiles in a record year for launches
By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the waters off its east coast on Sunday, the latest…
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