This handout from The Chaser News taken on October 16, 2022 and released to AFP on October 17 shows an incident involving a scuffle between a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester (C) and Chinese consulate staff, as a British police officer attempts to intervene, during a demonstration outside the consulate in Manchester. Photo: AFP
18 October 2022
The British prime minister's spokesman said Monday the government was "deeply concerned"...
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, 16 October 2022. Photo: EPA
18 October 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping doubled down on his policies at the opening of the Communist...
18 October 2022
A Burmese sailor was the only fatality when a South Korean tanker sank in the Taiwan...
 This handout photo taken and released on August 5, 2022 by the Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation shows firefighters working to contain a fire at the Mountain B nightclub in Sattahip district in Thailand's Chonburi province. A fire tore through a Thai nightclub early August 5 killing at least 17 people. Photo: AFP
17 October 2022
The death toll from a fire that ripped through a Thai nightclub in early August has risen...
17 October 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday hailed his Communist Party's zero Covid policies...
Members of Bangladesh security personnel stand guard beside Rohingya refugees rescued from the sea after a Malaysia bound boat sank off the Bangladesh coast in Teknaf on October 4, 2022. Photo: AFP
17 October 2022
A mob of a dozen people hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh,...
People effected by floods move to higher grounds in Khairpur Nathan Shah, Dadu district, Sindh province, Pakistan, 03 September 2022. Photo: EPA
16 October 2022
Pakistan's finance minister has promised international lenders to stay true to economic...
 In this photo taken on August 10, 2022, fisherman Christopher de Vera (C, in green shirt) supervises the loading of ice and provisions to their fishing “mother” boat in the village of Cato, Infanta town, Pangasinan province, as he and his crew prepare to leave for a fishing expedition to the South China Sea. Photo: AFP
16 October 2022
Filipino fisherman Mariel Villamonte had spent years plying the turquoise waters of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference following the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Heads of State Council meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, 14 October 2022. Photo: EPA
15 October 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow was "doing everything right"...
 An undated photo released on 10 October 2022 by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un overseeing a military drill carried out to check and assess the war deterrent and nuclear counterattack capability of the country, amid ongoing joint military exersizes involving US and South Korean forces in the waters near the Korean Penninsula. Photo: EPA
15 October 2022
North Korea on Friday fired a short-range ballistic missile, conducted multiple artillery...
Protesting against Xi’s authoritarian rule, several photos and videos of the banners have gone viral on social media. Photo: Twitter
15 October 2022
China's internet censors removed on Friday virtually all references to reports of a rare...
A tourist ship is sailing in front of the Kremlin during a sunny autumn day in Moscow, Russia, 14 October 2022. Photo: EPA
15 October 2022
The junta Military Council has asked Russia to invest in developing new industrial zones...

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