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A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on June 26, 2024. - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on June 26, the South Korean military said, according to the Yonhap news agency. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles, one fails

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles but one launch failed, South Korea’s military said Monday, a day after Pyongyang warned of “fatal consequences” following major joint exercises in the South. South
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A Taliban spokesman addresses a press conference in Kabul on June 29, 2024. - Afghanistan's Taliban authorities will meet international envoys on June 30, in Qatar for talks presented by the United Nations as a key step in an engagement process, but condemned by rights groups for sidelining Afghan women. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)

Taliban to press international community on Afghanistan sanctions

Taliban authorities said Monday they would press the international community over economic sanctions as they attended a UN-hosted summit in Doha with special representatives to Afghanistan for the first time. The two-day
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The photo taken on June 6, 2024 shows Corinne Wilson sticking a flyer in the hope of finding her adopted daughter Loulee's biological parents on a faded billboard with a slogan that reads "A daughter is like a slice of heaven, she'll take good care of you when you're old", which used to promote China's "one-child" policy in Dianjiang county, in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality. - Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents fearful of violating the country's "one-child" policy, which punished families for having additional children until its abolition in 2015. (Photo by Matthew WALSH / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'CHINA-ADOPTION-POPULATION, FOCUS' BY CELIA CAZALE AND MATTHEW WALSH

China’s adopted children return from overseas to seek their roots

At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag –- a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a
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(FILES) This aerial view shows Muslims gathered to pray in the courtyard of the Al-Nuri mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, during the Eid al-Adha holiday, on July 9, 2022. - Concealed seven years ago by the Islamic State group, five bombs have been discovered in a wall of the al-Nouri mosque, Iraq's heritage jewel undergoing restoration in the metropolis of Mosul, UNESCO told AFP. (Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP)

Five IS bombs found hidden in iconic Iraq mosque- UN agency

The United Nations said they discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul’s iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by the Islamic State group, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city.
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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka inflation climbs as food prices rise

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s annual inflation almost doubled to 1.7 percent in June, up from 0.9 percent the previous month, as food prices began rising again, official data showed Saturday. The Census and
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(FILES) This file photo taken on March 28, 2024 shows a man walking past signage for Kobayashi Pharmaceutical outside of the company's office in Tokyo. - Japanese health supplement maker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said on June 28, 2024 it was probing 76 more deaths possibly linked to its tablets containing red yeast rice, or "beni koji", meant to lower cholesterol. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP)

Japan firm says probing 76 more deaths in supplement scare

Japanese health supplement maker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said Friday it was probing 76 more deaths possibly linked to its tablets containing red yeast rice, or “beni koji”, meant to lower cholesterol. It deepens
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(FILES) This file photo taken on October 22, 2022 shows China's President Xi Jinping attending the closing ceremony of the 20th Chinese Communist Party's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. - China will hold a key political meeting historically watched for signals on economic direction from July 15-18, state media reported on June 27, 2024. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

China’s economy in focus ahead of key July political meeting

A key political meeting that is watched for signals on China’s economic direction will be held in mid-July, state media said Thursday, as policymakers seek to shore up a stuttering recovery. A
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Landslides, lightning and floods kill 14 in Nepal

Torrential monsoon storms in Nepal have triggered landslides, lightning and flooding killing at least 14 people, a disaster official said Thursday. Monsoon rains from June to September bring widespread death and destruction
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