Asia
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Taliban truck bomb and gunfight at elite guard unit’s HQ killed 64, making it the deadliest assault in the capital in 15 years
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Group claims its gunmen carried out the two separate attacks in Karachi but officials say medical teams were not targeted
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Relief effort is continuing after parts of the Kumamoto prefecture were hit by earthquakes last week. Were you affected?
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Protests as chief executive Leung Chun-ying is questioned in court by Raymond Wong, outspoken legislator charged with throwing glass at him
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Huang Yu convicted of leaking state secrets to unidentified foreign power, state television said on Tuesday
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Illnesses ranging from nosebleeds to leukaemia among pupils at Changzhou Foreign Languages School, with highly toxic illegal waste dump blamed
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Jacques Audiard’s depiction of Sri Lankans faking family ties to escape war is powerful, but highly selective in both the challenges the outcasts meet and its toxic depiction of France’s multiracial suburbs
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A survey of 1,300 local and expat workers found a wage gap that ranges from 400-900% and causes significant resentment among local workers
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Employees may be asked to invest up to £10,000 each under plans by management, who are looking to private investors and government support
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The planners of independent India’s new capital failed spectacularly in their attempt to create a poverty-free utopia. Their legacy is a sprawling city awash with slums and hampered by bureaucracy
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Smoke is seen rising in Kabul near state buildings which include Afghanistan’s intelligence offices
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Police in northern China say an argument between construction workers escalated into a clash of heavy machinery
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Exhausted by the scorching summer heat with temperatures rising to 38C in Dhaka, two drivers sleep under a bridge on the streets in the afternoon. A heat wave is sweeping across Bangladesh and is likely to continue
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Aerial footage of the Kumamoto region in southern Japan shows landslides and collapsed homes after the area was hit by a preliminary 7.3 magnitude earthquake on Saturday morning
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Residents in the Kumamoto region of Japan’s south-westerly island awoke to scenes of devastation after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the area
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Japanese broadcaster NHK shows the moment a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 strikes a bridge in Kumamoto, southern Japan
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China sets its sights on the Northwest Passage as a potential trade boon