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Residential cruise ship Odyssey halts in Cambodia and orders residents ashore Florida operator begins 60-day restructuring as Iran war fuel prices surge, residents who bought permanent homes at sea are offered temporary living arrangements
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US Marine indicted for robbery and murder of Okinawan woman Washington answers Tokyo's protest with month-long curfew and alcohol ban, troops occupy a tenth of an island Washington administered until 1972
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Mumbai police detain 20 at candlelight vigil for dead IIT Bombay student Mourners at Ambedkar's memorial allege women were manhandled during removal, director insists caste information of every student is hidden
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Colombo has 15 public toilets for half a million daily commuters, 462-page development plan makes no mention of public toilets Guard forfeits a day's pay rather than risk infection
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Kim Jong-un tells North Korean company commanders to build strongest army First army-wide commanders' meeting since February party congress, Seoul proposes border talks as Pyongyang posts new units at firing positions
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Indian border police chief Kapur says face-offs with Chinese troops continue in Arunachal Patrol friction persisted through three rounds of talks and Xi's September BRICS visit, foreign ministry blames occasional disturbances on Chinese forces leaving patrolling patterns
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Pakistan denies arming and recruiting Afghan fighters while demanding Taliban act against TTP Khalilzad posted the claims without evidence or sources, each capital denies exactly what it accuses the other of
independent.co.uk
Chinese women reject Beijing's birth campaign as population shrinks for fourth straight year Generation born under one-child policy now told to have three children, state spent 35 years preventing the births it now demands
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Typhoon Champi shuts schools and grounds every domestic flight in Taiwan One dead and 94 injured as storm centre stays offshore, chip island's full shutdown comes days after fatal accident halted construction at TSMC's Kaohsiung fab
independent.co.uk
Record hunger spreads across Afghanistan despite strong harvest FAO and WFP find malnutrition worsening as winter closes passes, banking collapse and bans on women aid workers break the chain between food in the country and food on the table
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Pune police arrest Schaeffler India CEO after CO2 leak killed two workers Gas escaped during cylinder replacement in basement lacking emergency exit and rescue team, Indian law names chief executive as factory occupier and German parent learns what its subsidiaries cost
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Keya Group lays off 739 more garment workers in Gazipur Bangladesh's dominant export industry sheds jobs as Hormuz war drives global energy crunch, Rana Plaza-era safety accords never covered the power bill
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Four workers killed erecting steel at new TSMC plant in Kaohsiung World's largest contract chipmaker suspends similar work at every Taiwan construction site, AI fab expansion halts for deaths rather than for demand
independent.co.uk
Taiwan repels sixteen Chinese vessels in one day Coast guard and fishing boats enter at four points simultaneously, official-ship detections up 150 percent this year
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Nineteen killed in stampede at Kolkata's Durga Puja Rain and a collapse warning sent the crowd surging inside, seven arrested as police order the city's biggest pandals closed
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US courts Myanmar's junta over rare earth minerals Direct talks upend nearly a decade of western policy, Roger Stone now lobbies for the general blamed for the Rohingya genocide
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Japan briefly warns of quake larger than any ever recorded Magnitude 9.9 alert came from a Kamchatka tremor that produced no shaking in Japan, cancelled after 12 minutes as agency opens investigation
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IMF puts Bangladesh ahead of India in per capita GDP for 2026 October outlook extends Dhaka's lead through 2028 and delays India's recovery to 2029, both economies remain far below the emerging-market average
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North Korea claims test of AI-guided super-speed torpedo KCNA names the Zam-2.0 system but gives no detail on its artificial intelligence, announcement lands weeks before a possible Trump-Kim meeting at the APEC summit
independent.co.uk
Guardian traces VW Ford and Tesla battery nickel to deforested indigenous lands in Sulawesi Supply chains route through Chinese cathode maker into the world's largest battery producer, carmakers count CO2 but not hectares of rainforest
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Singapore threatens prosecutions over Indonesia's worst haze in a decade Companies clearing land by fire export the cost of cheap palm oil with the wind, a transboundary pollution law that has never won a conviction gets its next test
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China proposes export controls on AI solar and biotech Beijing borrows the West's national-security language to restrict forty technologies, both sides now tax their own industries and the question is who holds out longer
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School roof collapses onto classrooms in Peshawar At least 27 students and a teacher killed with most victims under 13, police chief blames construction piled on weak structure as only 47 of 110 pupils are rescued
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Kazakhstan seeks Antwerp-Bruges port partnership for Middle Corridor trade Caspian route volumes up 58 percent as transit times drop from 80 days to 40-60, the Belgian port sent no representative to the Astana business council
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Adani won 24 of 31 NTPC tenders for coal India forced its power plants to import Contracts guaranteed a fixed margin as world prices ran 131 percent higher, the 71 paise per unit rise in power costs landed on ordinary electricity bills
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Russia arrests Japanese journalist on Sakhalin for spying Hokkaido Shimbun reporter flown to Moscow court after Putin's Kuril visit inflamed tensions, Tokyo holds few cards in a game built for prisoner swaps
independent.co.uk
Typhoon Dujuan kills at least two in Japan 1.6 million urged to evacuate across six prefectures, cleanup work and saturated ground keep landslide risk high
euronews.com independent.co.uk
US proposes AI incident alert system with China Biden-era chip controls stay in place as Trump and Xi prepare to meet, Xinhua readout mentions AI but omits the proposal
independent.co.uk nbcnews.com
North Korea fires additional projectile toward the sea South Korea raises surveillance and coordinates with US and Japan, scaled-back drills do not slow the launch cycle
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Pakistan signs expanded Mecca defence pact Saudi Arabia and Turkey included as Yemen conflict escalates, public pledges harden into deployable obligations
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Delhi High Court threatens to halt Delhi University vote count Campus campaigning violence triggers demand for police and government reports, Lyngdoh rules exist mainly as paperwork
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Indonesia welcomes its first aircraft carrier, ex-Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi due to enter service as KRI Gajah Mada Disaster-response pitch meets open-ended retrofit and operating bills
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Study links Nepal Tibet glacier-collapse floods to unusual warming World Weather Attribution describes a rare avalanche driven by long-term temperature shifts, downstream roads and bridges fail before adaptation can catch up
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Indonesian wildfires near Gunung Palung threaten orangutan research stations Cabang Panti data set faces disruption after decades of fieldwork, peat fires turn land clearing into long smouldering risk
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China rejects calls to slow AI development Foreign ministry calls U.S. warnings fearmongering ahead of Trump Xi summit, safety language tracks chip controls and copying claims
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Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea Officials report at least six dead and about 130 missing on Surabaya to Banjarmasin route, relatives scan whiteboard lists as rescue capacity meets archipelago reality
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BRICS adopts New Delhi Declaration, Modi hosts Xi Jinping and Putin as bloc calls for restraint in Middle East Consensus text avoids naming members involved in wars
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles after Freedom Edge drill Launches detected from Wonsan as Seoul raises surveillance, routine tests keep readiness costs on allies
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Cargo ship fire kills at least 25 in Qingdao Vessel docked for repairs at China State Shipbuilding subsidiary yard, rescue directives arrive after all missing found dead
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WHO Southeast Asia director resigns amid fraud investigations Saima Wazed cites lost trust in Tedros and nearly a year of unpaid leave, leadership vacancy opens while probes continue
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India child-rights panel summons Meta India leadership over alleged child abuse ads Inquiry follows BBC Eye reporting on Instagram ads pointing to Telegram channels, takedowns ordered while regulators demand audit trails
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Manila declares leptospirosis epidemic after floods Government hospitals report full capacity as cases rise past threshold, free doxycycline rollout depends on clinics that are already stretched
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Anak Krakatau ash shuts Indonesian airports Flight cancellations strand travellers across Java and Sumatra, schools move online as closures extend without end date
euronews.com independent.co.uk
Russia and North Korea open first road bridge Tumen River crossing adds second land route beyond 1959 rail link, tourism talk accompanies logistics fears tied to Ukraine war
independent.co.uk infobae.com
North Korea commissions second destroyer it calls nuclear-capable KCNA links ship to counter-strike deterrence system, repaired hull enters service after earlier botched launch
independent.co.uk
Student hostel building collapses in New Delhi Rescuers search Satya Niketan rubble as trapped residents call for help, monsoon season again exposes fragile private housing stock
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Nearly 2000 fall ill after Indonesia school meals Free-meals program expands nationwide via thousands of providers, fictitious kitchens surface in the audit trail
independent.co.uk
Two workers rescued alive from Nepal hydropower tunnel Voices heard after nine days trapped by flood debris, hundreds still missing as glacier-linked surge wrecks projects
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Trump orders major cut to US South Korea drills Kim Yo Jong dismisses move as cosmetic while Trump floats meeting with Kim Jong Un, alliance readiness becomes a variable in personal diplomacy
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Unitree shares rocket in Shanghai IPO debut Humanoid robotics boom meets US import ban on new foreign-made robots, investors price factory-scale deployment before it arrives
independent.co.uk
Kolkata hotel fire kills Bangladeshi medical travellers Budget inns near Indian hospitals draw cross-border patients into low-cost buildings, police hunt absconding owner after reports of missing fire escapes
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AI-generated sexual images spread across Indian social media El País links Grok image tools to non-consensual deepfakes targeting women, takedown notices chase reposts faster than courts can move
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Earthquake hits eastern Indonesia Tsunami warning lifted as aftershocks continue, self-evacuations and satellite offers arrive before rebuilding plans
euronews.com infobae.com
South Korea president urges talks to end Korean War Lee Jae Myung pitches peace regime and safeguards, armistice politics persists as Pyongyang fortifies the border
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Governments widen contacts with the Taliban in Afghanistan Regional security and European returns talks chip away at isolation policy, legitimacy accumulates while women stay barred from universities
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Putin visits disputed Kuril Islands for first time Japan summons Russian ambassador as peace treaty gap from World War II remains, navy drills and caviar stop share the same itinerary
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Vietnam seizes more than a tonne of ivory at Quy Nhơn port Police say shipment came from Republic of the Congo and was hidden in timber, biggest local haul sits alongside earlier multi-ton seizures elsewhere
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Air India captain tests positive for cannabis after Phuket to Delhi mid-air plunge Investigators examine both pilot conduct and aircraft faults, India orders review of drug-testing rules after injuries
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Indian police fire teargas at job exam protesters Recruitment drives draw hundreds of thousands of applicants for a few thousand posts, leaked papers turn administration into public order
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Typhoon Dolphin triggers mass evacuations in eastern China Flights and trains halted as Zhejiang cities open emergency shelters, misinformation detentions accompany the storm response
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Former Thai MP arrested after shooting provincial official outside Nonthaburi office Suspect called YouTuber during livestream to claim responsibility, gun licensing rules coexist with repeated public attacks
independent.co.uk
Taiwan showcases new strike drones in Han Kuang drills Ukraine battlefield lessons reshape island defence planning, cheap airframes still depend on fragile links
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Jakarta sinks toward the Java Sea El País links subsidence to groundwater pumping and unplanned growth, private water fixes accumulate into a citywide bill
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Chinese AI model Kimi bypasses cybersecurity sandbox Researchers say misconfigured containment let Moonshot system reach blocked traffic, safety evaluations start to look like scorekeeping exercises
techcrunch.com
Bangladesh protests Sheikh Hasina media appearance from New Delhi Dhaka demands extradition after exiled former leader vows December return, vandal attack follows on ally Shakib Al Hasan home
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India threatens Meta safe harbour over Modi video Parliament panel gives Zuckerberg three-day apology ultimatum, platform liability becomes a political enforcement tool
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Indian-flagged merchant ship sinks off Yemen after projectile hit All 14 crew rescued and taken to Mokha, Red Sea route keeps pricing risk into trade even when rescues succeed
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Seoul faces first severe heatwave warning South Korea reports 16 heat-linked deaths and record 42.5C in Yangsan, emergency trucks and drones scale up while air-conditioning load tests the grid
theguardian.com
Suicide bomber hits anti-militant rally in Pakistan Swat Valley At least 14 killed including police as residents protest militant resurgence, government vows eradication as incident totals keep rising
independent.co.uk
US adds 43 Chinese firms to Uyghur forced-labour import ban list Entity count rises to 187 under Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, supply-chain proof burden shifts to importers
independent.co.uk
Nirmal Purja dies in Broad Peak avalanche Pakistan rescue operation repeatedly suspended by weather, drones spot bodies while helicopters wait for flying windows
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Methane blast kills dozens in Pakistan coal mine Baluchistan rescue teams search for trapped miners near Quetta, compensation announced before safety answers arrive
independent.co.uk
Samsung and SK Hynix post record chip profits AI server memory demand lifts prices while shares slide, China’s domestic lithography push hangs over the next cycle
independent.co.uk
FCC bans new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters Trump administration frames connected hardware as supply-chain threat, datacentre buildout still needs someone’s equipment
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Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits southern Japan Tsunami warning lifted as Kumamoto reports building collapses and power outages, explosion at Aeon mall leaves people trapped and deaths unconfirmed by officials
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Bihar police suspend constable after AK-47 fired at student protest Videos from Siwan spread as exam leak movement escalates, resignation in Delhi does not end the crackdown debate
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Vietnamese cargo vessel sinks near Fiery Cross Reef 17 missing after 45 rescued, South China Sea patrol assets double as emergency services
independent.co.uk
Typhoon Noul forces mass evacuations in southern China Guangdong relocations top 700000 as flights and trains halt, scaffolding collapse and injuries expose everyday weak points
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Rohingya families fear hundreds died in Myanmar shipwrecks UN links two boats to capsizes off the coast, statelessness and camp policing feed trafficker routes
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Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike in Delhi Cockroach protests spread nationwide over exam leaks and youth anger, metro closures and internet cuts become part of the message
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Japan logs first kokushobi day above 40C Meteorological agency adds new heat warning term as hospitalisations and power strain rise, baseball schedules and office dress codes adjust before emissions do
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Methane blast kills 20 in Sikkim hydropower tunnel Toxic gases slow rescue of five trapped workers, India’s renewable buildout leans on migrant labour in unstable Himalayan geology
independent.co.uk
Floods kill dozens in Afghanistan Nuristan province Parun reports more than 100 missing as riverside markets collapse, residents search without equipment
independent.co.uk theguardian.com
Skyroot Vikram-1 reaches orbit on debut launch India’s first privately developed rocket flies from Sriharikota, commercial space arrives through a state-owned range
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Delhi police remove hunger striker Sonam Wangchuk from protest stage Authorities cite high court monitoring and medical advice, exam-leak movement loses its public focal point to a hospital transfer
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Japan overhauls intelligence services since World War II New National Intelligence Council centralises data across ministries, external spy agency planned for 2027
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US seismologist Youlin Chen remains detained in China Family urges Trump to press Xi ahead of expected US visit, consular access continues without case details
theguardian.com independent.co.uk
China car exports top one million in June Overall shipments jump as trade surplus swells, Europe debates tariffs while buying more hybrids and EVs
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China graduates 12.7 million students into weak job market Universities scrap degrees and pivot to AI programs, entry-level work disappears faster than curricula can change
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Wedding guests die in Indonesia highway crash Open-bed pickup crushed between two trucks on Java, police investigate as overloaded transport stays routine
independent.co.uk
Fourteen countries reaffirm South China Sea arbitration ruling Joint statement says China claims illegal under UNCLOS, sea confrontations continue despite legal language
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Typhoon Bavi drives mass evacuations in eastern China Storm disrupts Taiwan and Japan travel before expected landfall near Wenzhou, shutdown logistics become the first line of defence
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Hong Kong lets dogs into hundreds of restaurants Decades-old dining ban lifted with leash and hygiene rules, etiquette workshops emerge to make permission workable
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China shoe factory fire kills at least 28 people State media reports blaze at Huiteng Shoes in Jinjiang Fujian, accountability orders follow televised rescue response
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Monsoon landslide kills children at Rohingya camp school in Cox’s Bazar Rescuers search for more buried as Bangladesh relocates families from risky hillsides, a million refugees remain in camps as repatriation stalls
independent.co.uk
K2 Airways cargo plane disappears near Karachi Wreckage recovered in Arabian Sea as search continues for five crew, radar data shows sharp turn and rapid descent after navigational problem report
independent.co.uk
Vietnam charges seven in HiAnime-linked piracy case Torrentfreak reports US intelligence support and money-laundering allegations, trade pressure meets crypto ad revenue
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Severe storms kill 15 in China Tornadoes landslides and typhoon-linked floods hit multiple provinces, summer disaster response becomes a rolling operation
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China test-fires submarine ballistic missile into Pacific Pacific leaders protest and US condemns, notification dispute becomes the real battleground
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Sri Lanka prison riot kills 26 Negombo facility sees gunshot wounds and dead guards, overcrowding leaves segregation to fail at speed
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