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Today's news: Crowds rush to return to Gaza City but Israeli army does not open check-point; Landslides in Sulawesi cause 18 deaths; Hanoi also wants to establish a demarcation line in the Gulf of Tonkin, in response to China; Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes let fellow Chinese win the Beijing half-marathon.

Today's headlines: Jewish settlers attack a Palestinian village after a teenager disappeared from their West Bank settlement, leaving one resident dead and several wounded. People in Kerala raise money to save the life of an Indian migrant sentenced to death for carelessly causing the death of a disabled child. An engineer who worked on North Korea’s missile programme is elected to parliament in South Korea. The number of single-parent households is up in Russia.

Today's news: over 243 million children in East and Southeast Asia at risk from heat waves:; Beijing denies top management access to two US companies for selling arms to Taiwan; The Taliban want to black out Facebook (and social media) by blocking the few sources of information; Islamabad negotiates the renewal of the rescue plan with the International Monetary Fund; Over 98,000 people evacuated in Kazakhstan due to flooding.

Today's news: Hong Kong denied access to a Reporters Without Borders representative, who was searched and then deported; At least 16% of the candidates in the first phase of the Lok Sabha vote have pending criminal cases; Taiwan earthquake death toll rises to 16, over 1100 injured; The Houthis claim an attack on four boats in the Gulf, also a 'US warship'.

Today's news: Indian court dismisses appeal against arrest of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvid Kejriwal; Sunni militants kill five policemen in Sistan-Baluchestan; South Korea invests billions in artificial intelligence; Protests in Manila against Chinese 'aggression', Xi Jinping's image trampled.

Today's news: Record gold seizure at Hong Kong customs worth more than $10 million; For the Thai premier, it is time for talks with the coup junta in Myanmar, which is starting to 'lose strength'; Beijing blocked a popular Tibetan-language blog; Meeting between the foreign ministries of Russia and China, Putin's visit to Xi Jinping on the agenda.

Today's news: reports of workplace abuse have doubled in South Korea in five years; Baghdad will send 10 million liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip; Public apology from a company in Malaysia for a shoe logo that resembles the word "Allah"; The Taliban have built a wall around the Eidgah mosque in Kandahar for fear of ISIS attacks: Moscow has slowed issuing work permits to migrants from Central Asia.

Today's news: Three killed overnight in Gaza as Israeli police arrest dozens after al-Aqsa prayer; In Taiwan over 600 earthquake victims still waiting to be rescued; In India, consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2019; Hundreds of arrests in a joint police operation against child pornography in Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.

Today's news: Taiwan quake injured rises to 1,000; Thousands bid farewell to South Korean-born panda that will return to China; By-elections in Pakistan delayed for a group of senators, PTI protests; Clashes in Turkey over the removal of a pro-Kurdish mayor, later readmitted to office.

Today's news: Phone call between Biden and Xi Jinping; Most Japanese feel insecure economically; In Thailand, the Move Forward party is getting closer to disbanding; Chinese military exercises on the border with Myanmar; New winds of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Today's news: Pakistani court suspends sentence against former premier Imran Khan; Southeast Asians would rather side with China than the US; Pyongyang launches another missile towards the coast; King of Malaysia signals the end of 'honeymoon' for head of Anti-Corruption Commission; In Kazakhstan this year's floods were the most disastrous in three decades.

Today's news: Economic growth is expected in all developing Asian countries excluding China; In India, Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, will be jailed for another 15 days; In South Korea, a series of cameras were discovered at polling stations for the upcoming elections.