Asia
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Typhoon Meranti has damaged more than 18,300 houses and caused direct economic losses of more than 16.9bn yuan ($2.5bn)
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Kjartan Sekkingstad was abducted in September 2015, alongside a Filipina woman, who has already been freed, and two Canadians who were beheaded
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Mary Jane Veloso says she was duped into smuggling heroin into Indonesia as she fled an attempted rape in Dubai
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Australia not classing Afghan man’s case as an emergency but doctors say he is suffering from acute coronary syndrome and ‘requires urgent medical evacuation’
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Faroz Ali lured 15 compatriots with the promise of good wages but the workers were ‘misled, deceived and ripped off’
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Movie buff owner’s decision to sell up brings to light one of Wellington’s best kept secrets: a fully fledged picture theatre where he lovingly screens the classics
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Independent investigator Blaine Gibson says six pieces remain with island authorities and have not yet been analysed for links to missing aircraft
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Progress is slow, but a pioneering agency is starting to change minds
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UK aid funding supports ambitious project adding nutrients to everyday foods such as bread and oil, to reduce disastrous long-term impact of poor nutrition
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Letters: Nothing assures Monsanto of a steady income stream other than offering GM products that farmers want to use at a price they decide is fair value
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Bengaluru erupts in violence over water-sharing plans with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, as country-wide shortages reach crisis levels
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Edgar Matobato, a former militiaman, testifies before a senate committee hearing in the Philippines
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Typhoon Meranti’s strong winds blow a large inflatable moon around the streets of Fuzhou in south-east China
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An explosion on a ferry in Bali killed two people and injured 13 on Thursday. Police say they do not think it was caused by a bomb
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Video from Amir Hossain in Dhaka shows a flood of cow’s blood on a street in the capital of Bangladesh on Tuesday
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Footage shows an ambulance hit by waves in Kenting, Taiwan, on Wednesday, as super-typhoon Meranti causes damage across the region
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A major eruption from Mount Sakurajima, in south-western Japan, could happen in the next 30 years
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US nuclear bombers, supported by US and South Korean fighter jets, fly near the border with North Korea on Tuesday
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Philippines cannot be 'the little brown brothers of America', says minister