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Taliban score successes with embassy closures, COP attendance

Afghanistan embassies in Britain and Norway loyal to the pro-Western authorities ousted by the Taliban in 2021 discreetly shut down this autumn, as the West seeks a more pragmatic approach to the country’s Islamic rulers...

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Toxic smog smothering Delhi smashes WHO limit

Residents of India’s capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum...

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11 killed in airstrike on Myanmar teashop

Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for a...

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Manipur police station attack kills 10

Indian police in troubled northeastern Manipur state on Monday battled with Kuki minority forces and killed at least 10 people after their station was attacked, a district official said on Monday.

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Pakistani separatists kill 26 in station blast

A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 26 people including 14 soldiers at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

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Famine looming in Rakhine state: UN

Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country’s civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production.

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Delhi plans drone flights to combat smog crisis

India’s capital unveiled plans Friday to fly special drones to clear pollution from its smog-choked skies — a plan derided by experts as another ‘band-aid’ solution to a public health crisis.

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Myanmar junta chief discusses civil war with China

Myanmar’s junta chief has held talks with prime minister Li Qiang of key ally China on the civil war roiling his country, state media said on Thursday, during his first visit to the...

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Punjab shuts schools in smog hit main cities

Pakistan’s most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday ordered schools closed in smog hit main cities, shifting them to online learning until November 17, a minister said, as the...