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    Imran Khan Says, Paying Price for Independent Foreign Policy

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed that there was a “foreign conspiracy hatched by the United States” to topple his government through the opposition’s no-confidence motion.

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    Indonesia Teacher Gets Life In Jail For Raping 13 Students, Impregnating 8

    An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life in prison for the rape of 13 students, in a case that has drawn national attention to sexual abuse in some of the country's religious boarding schools.

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    India Rejects China-Pakistan Statement on Kashmir, CPEC

    India today rejected the references to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement issued by China and Pakistan during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent visit to Beijing.

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    Hundreds Of Myanmar Parents Publicly Disown Children Who Oppose Junta

    Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country's state-owned newspapers cutting ties with sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren.

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    North Korea tests longest-range missile since 2017

    North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since President Joe Biden took office, as it revives its old playbook in brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington.

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    Thailand Beach Declared Disaster Area After Oil Spill

    A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash ashore and blacken the sand.

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    Pak Boy, 14, Shoots Dead Entire Family Under PUBG Influence: Police

    A 14-year-old boy shot dead his entire family, including mother and two minor sisters, allegedly "under the influence" of online game PUBG, police in the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province said on Friday.

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    UN human rights chief allowed to visit Xinjiang after Olympics

    China has agreed to allow United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Michelle Bachelet to visit Xinjiang in the first half of 2022 after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

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    China ‘surprised’ US with hypersonic missile test

    China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, showing a capability that caught US intelligence by surprise, the Financial Times reported, citing five unnamed sources.

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    Myanmar airstrikes reported as internet is cut in more areas

    Myanmar’s army launched air strikes on the weekend after clashes with fighters against the junta in the Sagaing area, in keeping with media and a militia member, as cellphone strains.

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    China’s biggest airshow to highlight military prowess

    China’s military will display some of its most advanced weaponry and equipment when the country’s largest airshow gets under way this week.Airshow China opens in the southern city of Zhuhai.

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    'Is our blood so worthless?' Afghan family demands answers for US drone strike that killed 10

    It felt like hell itself had opened up, said Ramal Ahmadi, who was watching cartoons with his nephew when a US drone slammed into his family’s courtyard where just moments before.

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    China Sends 1.1 Million Party Members to Share Uighurs’ Homes

    One was his 39-year-old sister; standing at her side was an elderly woman Idris did not know. Their grins were tight-lipped, mirthless. Her sister had posted the picture on a social media account along.

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    Will an ambitious Chinese-built rail line through the Himalayas lead to a debt trap for Nepal?

    China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has ambitions to reshape the global economy by connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa through trade and infrastructure projects.

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    Indonesia's vigilante mobs deliver brutal 'justice'

    India has sought from the US 24 multi-role MH-60 Romeo anti-submarine helicopters at an estimated cost of USD 2 billion, defence industry sources said on Friday.

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    Amnesty International strips Suu Kyi of ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ award

    Human rights watchdog Amnesty International Monday revoked Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour, citing her ‘indifference’ over the human rights violations by the country.

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    China grilled over Uighur internment camps, civil rights at UN human rights review

    China faced harsh criticism over its rights record during a review before the United Nations on Tuesday, with countries voicing alarm at the country’s mass detainment of ethnic Uighurs.

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    Indonesia protests after Saudi Arabia executes domestic maid

    Tuti Tursilawati, a mother of one, had been convicted of murdering her employer, who workers rights’ group Migrant Care said was trying to rape her at the time. 

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    Indonesian plane crashes into sea with 189 passengers, crew

    An Indonesian Lion Air Boeing 737 carrying 189 passengers and crew crashed into the sea off the Indonesian coast shortly after take-off from Jakarta, the search and rescue agency said on Monday.

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    Malaysia's Mahathir: Uighurs freed because they did nothing wrong

    Malaysia freed 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who fled to the Southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak because they did nothing wrong, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday.

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    Myanmar Buddhists rally to support military in crimes against Rohingya

    Myanmar’s extremist Buddhists rally in Yangon to voice support for the military’s state-sponsored crackdown campaign against Rohingya Muslims, vowing to “fight back” any international.

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    Defying China, Malaysia releases Uighur detainees

    Mala­ysia has freed from detention 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who fled to the southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak last year, and sent them to Turkey, their lawyer said on Thursday.

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    China launches anti-halal campaign in Xinjiang

    Urumqi, capital of the largely Muslim Chinese region of Xinjiang, will crack down on activities that blur the boundary between religion and secular life and encourage “extremism,” the local government said.

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    Myanmar 'unwilling' to probe Rohingya abuse, UN must act: rights envoy

    Myanmar is “unable and unwilling” to investigate its abuses against Rohingya Muslims, a UN rights envoy has said, bolstering calls for the country’s generals to be hauled before an international.

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