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Today's news: Gaza and Israel conflict displaces at least 20,000 in Lebanon; South Korea rescues four North Korean defectors; Japan's nominal GDP rises from third to fourth place globally; Pakistan announces that it will not expel Afghans awaiting visas from the West; Tombstones of Stalinist victims disappear in Russia.

Today's news: The Philippines summons the Chinese ambassador over clashes in the South China Sea; In Indonesia, President Widodo's son to run as deputy in elections; In South Korea, number of elderly workerforce is increasing; Iranian journalists who covered death of Mahsa Amini sentenced to prison; Tatarstan wants to use child labour to assemble drones.

Today's news: Qatari mediates release of two women with US citizenship among 200 Gaza hostages; Chinese authorities ban book on the last emperor of the Ming dynasty over online comparisons with Xi Jinping; Kuwait promises Philippines to resolve clash over migrants; Nagorno Karabakh refugees protest in Yerevan.

Today's news: more Israeli air raids on Gaza with dozens of victims, 850 arrests in the West Bank since the beginning of the war. Tension between India and Canada: starting today, the withdrawal of immunity for dozens of Ottawa diplomats in the Asian country. Drought alarm in Bali. The Kiev parliament approved the suspension of religious organisations linked to the Russian Federation.

Today's news: Pakistan aims to repatriate all Iranian and Afghan nationals illegally present in its territory; Student shot by Hong Kong police in 2019 protests convicted in court; Japan cuts deficit by more than 75%; In Minsk Lukasenko negotiates with Tehran's top leadership to deliver assault drones; After the arrest of the first three, Aleksej Naval'nyj's fourth lawyer, Aleksandr Fedulov, leaves Russia.

Today's news: The number of political prisoners in Russia up 15-fold in recent years; Pyongyang's escalation - also nuclear - to regional nation's meeting with the US in Jakarta; India accelerates in space race with the goal of putting an astronaut on the Moon by 2040; Dengue is on the rise in Vietnam.

Today's news: US President Biden meets Netanyahu tomorrow; Ahead of atatck on Israel, Hamas reportedly received millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from a crypto-exchange in Russi; Indonesian President Joko Widodo changes laws to have his son elected as vice-president.

Today's news: Hamas thanks Putin in a statement for 'his support over the years'; Tensions continue to rise between South and North Korea with a mutual display of powerful weapons and alliances; Australia has rejected the inclusion of Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution; India 'dreams' of the 2036 Olympics.

Today's news: Number of Thais who died in Mideast rises to 24. A meeting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Kyrgyzstan over Nagorno Karabakh falls through. In Myanmar, junta drops one of its most powerful bombs on a refugee camp. In Moscow police raided the homes of Alexei Navalny's lawyers. Taiwanese government raises salaries of educators and caregivers of people with physical and mental disabilities.

Today's news: three Chinese victims among the thousands killed in the war between Israel and Hamas; Dozens of Filipino migrants sue US company over working conditions at World Cup construction sites in Qatar; Beijing repatriated over 500 North Korean exiles at the end of the Asian Games; Japan wants to disband the Unification Church; The low-cost carrier flydubai is the first international carrier to operate in Kabul; Opposition' candidate identified for next year's elections in Russia.

Today's news: Vietnamese court sentences Christian activist to eight years; In November, China's statistics bureau will conduct a survey to plan new population policies; Uttar Pradesh authorises the resumption of production at Marion Biotech, blamed for cough syrups that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan; Next week the Constitutional Court in Indonesia rules on lowering the age to run for president. In Russia, the Soviet practice of psychiatric asylums for dissidents returns.

Today's news: Pyongyang sentences a woman to three years for talking on the phone with her daughter who had fled to South Korea; One in seven people in South East Asian countries suffer from a mental illness, still considered a stigma; A new (and powerful) earthquake strikes Afghanistan; Arundhati Roy risks a trial for a 2010 public speech on Kashmir; Beijing's presence in the UN Human Rights Council confirmed with 154 votes.