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Today's news: Japan's new Industry Minister wants to revive microchip production; Tehran executes child bride Samira Sabzian; India - the world's former second largest sugar importer - risks having to import this raw material from 2025 due to climate change;. Fighting continues in Gaza UN postpones (again) Security Council vote on truce; Joint patrol operations on the border between China and Laos.

Today's news: Prison system in Israel is collapsing, over 3,000 more inmates since October alone; International troops on the southern side of the inter-Korean border will rearm in response to the North's increasing military activism; In Pakistan artificial intelligence used to create a rally by former premier Imran Khan, now in prison; Myanmar's civil war has caused more than 2.6 million new internally displaced persons.

Today's news: at UN Security Council new vote on Gaza truce, with over 20,000 dead; Beijing prepares to test first "made in China" ocean drilling ship; Hanoi indicts dozens of people for bribery in 12 billion euro scam; Pakistan uses artificial rain for the first time to combat smog in Lahore; In Kuwait, the funeral of Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was held yesterday.

Today's news: To protect women from abuse, Afghan Taliban locks them in prison; Over19,000 Palestinian casualties in Gaza, Israeli army mistakenly kills three hostages while Tehran executes "a Mossad agent"; Record number of bullying cases in Seoul schools; Tokyo sanctions Russian entities for war in Ukraine; Iranian woman to serve 13 years in prison for social posts regarding the killing of her son in protests over Mahsa Amini.

Today's news: Indonesia will send 100,000 workers to Japan over five years; Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay in the country another two months; China says it has brokered 'a temporary ceasefire' between Burma's coup junta and ethnic militias; Taiwan presidential candidates divided over submarine development; 800,000 Russians have moved to Crimea since 2014.

Today's news: Indonesia deploys army in rice fields to help farmers cope with drought; Another charge against Filipino journalist Maria Ressa dropped; Dozens arrested in Malaysia for illegal mining of rare earths; Iran wants to deploy new troops on the border with Turkmenistan and Afghanistan; In India, two people broke into parliament and sprayed coloured gas.

Today's news: The UN votes on a non-binding resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza; Hundreds of Nepalese are said to be enlisted in the war in Ukraine: Pakistan protested to Afghanistan over the latest attack in which dozens of soldiers died; India asks the US for information about Sikh separatists; Japan tries to keep the squirrels at bay; Plane crashes in Russia increase.

Today's news: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hanoi; Malaysia's premier will be joined by a new finance minister; Scandals continue to haunt the government of Fumio Kishida in Japan; Yemen's Houthis hit a Norwegian oil tanker bound for Israel; No news of Aleksej Naval'nyj from Russia.

Today's news: Myanmar militias make new territorial gains; The Indian Supreme Court confirmed the legality of the withdrawal of Kashmir autonomy; South Korea's government meets with childless couples to counteract under-natality; Chinese dissident who had exposed the spread of Aids in rural areas dies; The possibility of a tragedy in Gaza recedes; Elections in Azerbaijan brought forward; Migrants stranded in Russia recruited for war in Ukraine.

Today's headlines: Japan's prime minister is set to replace his right-hand man. Indonesia’s president blames human trafficking for the increase in Rohingya arrivals. Laos is proposing new economic reforms that do not convince the population. Due to climate change, a flower sacred for one of Taiwan’s indigenous people is disappearing.

Today's news: 309 people have died in attacks by Myanmar's coup junta on civilians since the beginning of the resistance counter-offensive; Widodo's government intends to return almost 1,500 Rohingya to Myanmar. In Russia; Prigožin's son takes over 'family' businesses; North Korea closed its embassies in Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Today's news: 462 Chinese citizens arrested in Laos. Freedom of the press is increasingly squeezed in Malaysia. Taiwan tries again to join the CPTPP. Afghanistan gets the release of some funds from the World Bank. There is an ongoing measles epidemic in Russia. The New Zealand government wants to abolish the use of the Maori language