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US policy document suggests South Korea take primary responsibility, as Pentagon prioritises defending US homelandThe Pentagon foresees a “more limited” role in deterring North Korea, with South Korea taking primary responsibility for the task, a Penta…
Rescue efforts at Mount Maunganui site switch to recovery operation that police say could take several daysEfforts to rescue six people buried by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended on Saturday, with police shifting into a recovery operatio…
Conservationists hail the ‘desperately needed’ measures and urge greater protection after up to 11% of endangered Tapanuli orangutans wiped outThe floods and landslides that tore through Indonesia’s fragile Batang Toru ecosystem in November 2024 – kill…
Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be solved, after an alarm sounded during start-upThe restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a d…
Search-and-rescue teams worked through the night at the campground, but there had been no progress in finding missing people, officials sayNew Zealand is ‘full of grief”, the prime minister has said, after landslides tore through a house and busy campg…
Opposition lawmakers say they will seek to impeach José Jerí over undisclosed meetings in Lima’s ChinatownPeru’s interim president, José Jerí, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing polit…
Development charity’s new co-chairs signal shift from controversial sponsor a child scheme launched in 1972 to long-term grassroots fundingChild sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry racialise…
Reporters Without Borders said the ruling against the 26-year-old journalist showed a ‘blatant disregard for press freedom’ in the Southeast Asian nationA young Filipino journalist who spent nearly six years in a crowded provincial prison was found gui…
Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, who led Tiananmen Square vigils, accused of inciting subversion The national security trial of three pro-democracy activists who organised an annual memorial in Hong Kong to mark the Tiananmen Square massacr…
Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years agoThe faded outline of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it…