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Asia

  • A US aircraft carrier and US and Japanese missile destroyers sail in formation during a bilateral exercise in 2024.

    Japan to deploy long-range missiles able to hit North Korea and China

  • Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen on a screen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

    Monday briefing: Is Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest a sign of the ICC’s strength or its limitations?

    In today’s newsletter: the former Philippines president was arrested and taken to The Hague after a tense standoff. It’s a much needed win for the international criminal court – but success is far from a given
  • Boat on fire with another vessel on foreground

    British tourist missing after boat catches fire off Thai island

    Alexandra Clarke, 26, was on a diving excursion near Koh Tao when blaze broke out

  • Life of British man, 79, imprisoned by Taliban is in serious danger, say family

  • Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring militant terror group after train hijacking

  • Rodrigo Duterte appears at ICC hearing in The Hague by video link

  • Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appears by video link in Hague accused of crimes against humanity – as it happened

  • Four months after daughters’ deaths, parents of Laos backpackers face ‘horror scenarios’ amid fight for answers

  • China criticises Hong Kong firm’s sale of majority stake in Panama ports

  • The senator, the priest, the forensic pathologist: the people who brought ex-president Duterte to justice

Asia Pacific

  • Lucy Blakiston at her home office in Wellington, New Zealand

    New Zealand
    How a New Zealander working from her mum’s kitchen started a news service read by Madonna

  • Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivering a speech

    Taiwan
    Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’

  • The chamber of the European parliament in Brussels

    European Union
    ‘Several people’ arrested in EU bribery investigation linked to Huawei

  • Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte arrested<br>Law enforcement officers walk to an aircraft carrying former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after its arrival at Rotterdam The Hague Airport following Duterte's arrest at the request of the International Criminal Court, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

    Rodrigo Duterte
    Rodrigo Duterte says he will accept responsibility after ICC arrest over ‘war on drugs’

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South & central Asia

  • A huge number of South Asians are seen walking along between shacks, vehicles and temporary lighting and electricity poles

    Global development
    The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

  • Raphael Satter in Washington, dressed in grey T-shirt and powder blue blazer

    India
    US journalist sues Indian government after losing his overseas citizenship

  • Pakistan's security services claimed to have rescued about 190 of the 214 hostages
    1:47

    Pakistan
    Baloch Liberation Army release footage of Pakistan train attack – video

  • An injured passenger is carried on a stretcher after arriving on a special train for the wounded and survivors

    Pakistan
    Pakistan operation to free hostages after train hijacking ends with dozens killed

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Pictures & video

  • Safe hostages recount horror of Pakistan train attack – video

  • Duterte was due to be brought before an ICC judge in The Hague for an initial appearance
    3:19

    Rodrigo Duterte arrives in The Hague over drug war killings – video

    Duterte was due to be brought before an ICC judge in The Hague for an initial appearance
  • Rodrigo Duterte sits in a chair with photographers around him
    2:22

    Rodrigo Duterte questions reason for his arrest after ICC warrant – video

    Former Philippine president speaks in video posted by daughter after his detention at Manila airport
  • Duterte is wanted by the international criminal court over his so-called ‘war on drugs’, which rights groups say left up to 30,000 people dead
    0:37

    Rodrigo Duterte under arrest on international warrant for 'war on drugs' – video

  • Yoon said he 'would like to thank the central district court for their courage and determination in correcting the illegality' after his release
    1:39

    South Korea's impeached president released from prison – video

  • At least 15 people were injured in South Korea after bombs accidentally dropped by fighter jets landed in a civilian district
    1:20

    Footage shows moment South Korean missile accidentally hits village – video

  • Firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire in north-east Japan which has been burning for seven days
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    Firefighters struggle to contain seven-day wildfire in north-east Japan – video

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