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UFOs, boats and castles: Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’

Local residents and volunteers gather and wait for the arrival of victims of gunmen firing incident on passenger vehicles, at a hospital in Parachinar, in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dilawar Hussain)

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At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with leading officials of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 10, 2024. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA.

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FBI seizes websites that North Koreans allegedly used to impersonate American companies

A woman walks past the US Embassy in Kyiv on November 20.

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View of the production line of the 100% electric Ford Explorer at the Ford Electric Center Factory in Cologne, western Germany, June 4, 2024.

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Ford to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe

An official holds a tarantula that was seized from a South Korean national as he was attempting to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes along with bullet ants out of the country at Jorge Chavez International Airport, in Lima, Peru, in this handout distributed on November 13, 2024. Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Smuggler arrested with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body

Stealth fighters and a massive mothership drone: The high-tech weapons China unveiled at its largest airshow

Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time

Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

China rebuffs meeting with US defense secretary

The $50 trillion guardrail on Trump

Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media

Weight-loss drug Wegovy launched in China

Biden authorizes Ukraine to use long-range US weapons in Russia

Biden’s green light for Ukraine to use ATACMS in Russia just raised the stakes in a war Trump will inherit

Trump might nix America as a climate tech leader. 5 charts show China winning that race

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<p>"Have I Got News For You" host Roy Wood Jr. quizzes people on the street in London to see how much they know about the US presidential election.</p>

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Video ‘Oh, now you’re talking’: Comedian Roy Wood Jr. quizzes UK audience on US election 3:18

China

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 25: The national flags of the United States and China flutter at the Fairmont Peace Hotel on April 25, 2024 in Shanghai, China. At the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China from April 24 to April 26. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)

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Indian international students in the US outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years

Hong Kong hears from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai for the first time in four years at his trial

How different a commander in chief will Trump be?

Eight killed and 17 injured in mass stabbing in eastern China

Trump looms over Biden’s final meeting with Xi in Peru

India

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Commuters step out in a foggy winter morning amid rising air pollution, on November 19, 2024 in Greater Noida, India.

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‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Life in the world’s most polluted city

The disputed region of India that bakes bread to rival France

India’s successful test of hypersonic missile puts it among elite group

Hospital fire kills 10 newborn babies in northern India

US returns looted antiquities worth $10 million to India

Japan

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U.S. Navy <em>Clemson</em>-class destroyer USS <em>Edsall</em> (DD-219) (misidentified as "HMS Pope") being sunk on 1 March 1942 south of Java.

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Wreck of US Navy’s heroic ‘dancing mouse’ WWII warship found off Australia

Long-lost ocean worms photobomb tiny seahorses, surprising scientists

American tourist arrested for allegedly defacing gate at Tokyo shrine

Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101

Nissan shares slump after it announces 9,000 job cuts and a plan to slash production

North Korea

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Elon Musk gives a tour to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and lawmakers of the control room before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, a Trump confidante, has been tapped to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Trump’s turn to bask in Musk’s reflected glory

Bad news mounts for Ukraine across the frontlines. But Russia is under pressure too

North Korea to mass produce self-detonating explosive drones, state media reports

Senior commanders react to Trump’s new cabinet picks

Ukraine is fighting 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says

Pakistan

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Satellite imagery from NASA Worldview shows heavy smog over Pakistan’s Punjab province and parts of northwest India on November 10, 2024.

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Toxic smog in Pakistan is so bad you can see it from space

Dozens killed in Pakistan train station suicide blast, as militants claim responsibility

Pakistan province calls for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India as record smog chokes major city

Thick smog chokes northern India and eastern Pakistan ahead of Diwali

A million children in Pakistan miss polio vaccine shots as cases spike

South Korea

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Hwang Dong-hyuk attends Netflix's FYSEE Showcase Photocall for "Squid Game" Season 2 at TUDUM Theater on November 03, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

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‘Squid Game’ creator Hwang Dong-hyuk put his actual teeth into making the show

After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement

South Korean actor Song Jae-lim dead at 39

South Korean president takes up golf again to prepare for Trump’s second term

Trump claims Kim Jong Un ‘misses’ him. But he faces a very different North Korean leader this time around

Southeast Asia

Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is escorted by officers at a police station in Bangkok, Thailand on April 26, 2023.

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Thai court gives death penalty to woman accused of cyanide serial killings

Indonesia to return death-row drug convict to Philippines after yearslong appeal for mercy

Weary Philippines cleans up after Super Typhoon Man-yi becomes fourth major storm to hit in the past fortnight

Duterte returns as Philippines’ political clans wage ‘a fight to the death’

The ancient UNESCO-listed city that’s considered the cradle of Thai culture