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Trial balloon: Japan PM Takaichi contemplates Feb. snap election

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Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Talaud Islands

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6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Talaud Islands

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Beijing’s long game in a post-Maduro Venezuela

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Rescuers race to find dozens missing in deadly Philippines landfill collapse

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Greenland's parliament will bring forward meeting to discuss US threats, party leaders say

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Beware of bears: Japan’s 2025 kanji character reflects worries over attacks on humans

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Man arrested on suspicion of hiding woman’s body in wall of bar he runs in Japan’s Hokkaido

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Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images

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20 Air Force officers believed to be involved in ‘yeye’ culture, says RMAF chief

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China, Russia, Iran start 'BRICS Plus' naval exercises in South African waters

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Indonesia records first death linked to ‘super flu’

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Death toll in Philippines landfill collapse rises to 4

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20 Malaysia air force officers face disciplinary action over military camp scandal

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Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images

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Malaysia border agency advises foreign travellers to use NIISe app following autogate crash

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Estate in deadly Hong Kong fire won’t be reused as housing, minister tells broadcaster RTHK

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Physiotherapy, not surgery, to aid Malaysia’s ex-PM Mahathir as he recovers from fall, says aide

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Chinese villagers in Hebei province struggle for heat as gas subsidies fade

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Death toll climbs after trash site collapse buries dozens in Philippines

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Indonesia’s new sex laws could turn bedrooms into ‘Batman traps’ for the unwary: Analysts

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Chinese villagers struggle for heat as gas subsidies fade

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Philippines’ Mayon Volcano logs 150 rockfalls, 90 pyroclastic currents in 24 hours

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China sells the world on its duty-free Hainan island, amid a $1.28 trillion trade surplus

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North Korea accuses South Korea of another drone incursion

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Malaysia's unemployment rate hits 11-year low amid strengthening ringgit

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‘Racing against time’: Death toll up as search goes on for survivors in Philippine dump site collapse

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Landfill collapse in Philippines: Death toll rises to 3, 35 others still missing

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Bessent says Australia, India invited to G7 meeting on critical minerals

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Is Melaka still worth visiting despite the crowds? Here’s when to go and what to see

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‘Extreme and dangerous’ weather: Australian bushfires raze homes, cut power to tens of thousands

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‘Extreme and dangerous weather’: Australian bushfires raze homes, cut power to tens of thousands

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Australia’s PM Albanese warns of extreme and dangerous weather as bushfires rage in Victoria

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Australia PM warns of extreme and dangerous weather as bushfires rage in Victoria

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Capitalism at war: America’s foreign policy reckoning

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China plays rare-earth card on Japan, but keeps it subtle

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Venezuela crisis’s impact on the Korean Peninsula peace process

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North Korea says another South Korean drone entered its airspace on Jan 4

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North Korea says South Korean drone entered its airspace on Jan 4

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