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Six months into an offensive against Myanmar’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war.
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Top public relations executive at Chinese technology firm Baidu apologizes after sparking backlash
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China’s Xi receives ceremonial welcome in Hungary ahead of talks with Orbán
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India urges pro-China Maldives to ease tensions and improve their strained relationship
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IS group claims bombing in Afghanistan that killed officers involved in an anti-poppy crop campaign
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The North Korean official whose propaganda helped build the Kim dynasty dies at 94
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3 Indian men charged with killing Sikh separatist leader in Canada appear in court
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Former head of one of China’s top state-owned phone companies sentenced to 16 years for corruption
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Pakistan’s military says March attack that killed Chinese engineers was planned in Afghanistan
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Chinese leader Xi visits the French Pyrenees in a personal gesture by Macron
France’s president has hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings.
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Vietnam celebrates 70 years since Dien Bien Phu battle that ended French colonial rule
Vietnam has started commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops.
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A knife attack at a Chinese hospital kills 2 people and injures 21. The motive is unclear
A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China has killed two people and injured 21 others. No motive was given for Tuesday’s attack at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Yunnan province.
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India votes in third phase of national elections as Modi escalates his rhetoric against Muslims
Millions of Indians across 93 constituencies are voting as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric against Muslims.
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Xi begins Serbia visit on the 25th anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo.
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Why voters in southern India are more resistant to Modi’s Hindu-centric politics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exercised near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region.
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Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast.
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Powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claims to capture base and hundreds of soldiers
A powerful ethnic armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claims it took hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
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Activists in Bangladesh march through universities to demand end to Israel-Hamas war
Thousands of activists in Bangladesh backed by the ruling party’s student wing have demonstrated in the nation’s capital and elsewhere to demand an end to the Israel-Hamas war and the establishment of an independent Palestine state.
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