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Hong Kong leader says he ‘laughs off’ US sanctions

Island has angered Washington by not taking action against superyacht allegedly owned by Russian oligarch

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Iran students, workers defy protest crackdown

Multi-faceted nature of demonstrations complicate state’s attempts to quell movement

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UK’s top court to assess legal basis for new Scottish independence vote

Opinion polls now indicate that voters nearly evenly divided over secession

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Ukraine denounces Russia as ‘terrorist state’ in UN meeting

Kyiv’s rep to world body blasts ‘unstable and insane dictatorship’ after Moscow’s missile strikes

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UK facing 'painful' cuts to fix public finances: study

Reducing debts solely in this way ‘risks stretching credulity to breaking point’, says think-tank

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Over 154,000 households in 26 provinces hit by floods in Thailand

Discharges from dams filled to capacity inundate many low-lying areas

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Missile strikes on ‘many cities’ of Ukraine: Kyiv

Russian ‘terrorists’ have also launched attack on capital, says mayor

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Second Australia-based Singtel subsidiary hacked

Dialog confirms ‘unauthorised third party may have accessed company data’

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Philippines passes SIM card registration law to combat scams

When buying one, mobile users now required to show photo ID, complete form with personal details

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Air France, Airbus trial to open over 2009 Rio-Paris crash

Court to hear testimony from dozens of aviation experts, pilots over two months of hearings

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Taiwan leader vows ‘no compromise’ on freedom, democracy

President Tsai Ing-wen compares Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to China’s threat to island democracy

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UN to take up Russian annexations in Ukraine

Member countries to debate Moscow’s ‘illegal’ takeover of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson regions

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Putin blames Ukraine secret services for Crimea bridge blast

Russian president calls explosion ‘terrorist act’ aimed to destroy critical civilian infrastructure