Asia
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Fourteen coaches of passenger train roll off track near the northern city of Kanpur injuring around 150 people
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Around 40,000 protesters march in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, demanding the resignation of prime minister Najib Razak over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal
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John Key at Apec summit jokes ‘cosmetic changes’ could appease US president-elect over sweeping trade deal
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Amnesty says hauling of Malaysiakini journalists before specially convened ‘cyber court’ is the latest move to stifle non-government media
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The upgraded airstrip on Spratly Island would be able to handle combat aircraft, US-based analysts say
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Jakarta says is cannot be expected to have protected sunken second world war warships destroyed by illegal scavenging
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Bashir Naderi, 19, fled Afghanistan as a 10-year-old after his father was murdered, and was brought up in Wales
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Generations of distrust between Rohingya Muslims and wider Buddhist population have boiled over into reprisals fuelling the spectre of an insurgency
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The tragedy in Iraq results from our imposition of western values. It is our duty to make amends
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Editorial: Trump’s svengali, Steve Bannon, saw Hindu nationalism as part of a ‘great revolt’. The way things are going, the resistance might begin at home
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A small monkey found abandoned in China’s eastern Jiangxi province has made a new family with a farmer’s herd of goats
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A 30-metre sinkhole on a busy street in the Japanese city of Fukuoka has been repaired astonishingly quickly
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An estimated 170,000 protesters marched through the streets of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday, calling for President Park Geun-Hye
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