Instead of being supportive, Australia is taking away Afghans’ only reason for happiness, an Afghan cricketer said.

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No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but it is believed to be the work of the Islamic State Khorasan Province.

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Afghan society has always frowned upon women participating in sports, but unlike the Taliban, previous governments encouraged girls to play.

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Alluding to the two countries’ territorial dispute in the South China Sea, Marcos said he looks forward to discussing bilateral and regional political and security issues.

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The decision will hurt the regime’s efforts to win recognition from foreign governments and international donors.

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Minister Penny Wong’s trip is raising hopes for progress on issues ranging from trade restrictions to detained Australians.

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Jose Maria Sison had lived in self-exile in The Netherlands since his release from prison in 1986.

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The new pact comes amid a ramped up competition with China in the Pacific, following Beijing’s own security deal with Solomon Islands.

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The shelling has come at a time of mounting bilateral tensions over Pakistani border posts and Taliban sheltering anti-Pakistan militants.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences was crippled for nearly two weeks following a hack into servers that store patient records.

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The National Health Commission scrapped many of China’s most stringent anti-pandemic regulations, including routine, mandatory PCR testing.

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Current Communist Party leader Xi Jinping praised Jiang in an hour-long address at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.

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The State Department added four leaders of TTP and al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent to its list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”

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In an unusual move, the Navy’s 7th Fleet issued a rebuttal to China’s objections to Tuesday’s mission in the South China Sea.

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Nearly 5 million people in the southern Chinese city are under lockdown orders, raising the specter of more supply chain disruptions from China’s zero-COVID policy.

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Debris found in two separate locations were likely remnants of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched last week from Hainan island.

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In collaboration with Japan, Cambodia will dispatch experienced demining specialists to Ukraine.

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The Wire website had alleged in a now-retracted report that Meta granted the BJP official special powers to censor Instagram posts.

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Recent reports shed light on China’s “overseas police stations” – many of which operate unbeknownst to the host nation’s government.

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Lawyers representing the Uyghurs will argue that the British government’s inaction breaches existing U.K. laws prohibiting goods made in foreign prisons or linked to crime.

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The chairman of the country’s Election Commission said that a two-week campaign period will begin on November 5.

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A spate of crimes victimizing Chinese workers at illegal online gambling businesses sparked the crackdown, which Beijing supports.

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Chipmakers are benefiting for demand for next-generation telecoms, high-performance computing and chips for use in products from cars to medical devices.

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Altaf Ahmad Shah was in Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2017 in a terror funding case.

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As is often the case with China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy, the measures seemed out of proportion to the number of cases detected.

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Bangladesh’s recent impressive economic growth has been threatened by power shortages.

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Russian officials said they would hand call-up notices to all eligible men who were trying to leave the country.

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Liu Yanping is the latest in a series of high-level officials to fall before the upcoming Party Congress.

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The Asian Development Bank’s plan calls for improving long-term food security by strengthening farming and food supplies to cope with climate change and loss of biodiversity.

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