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Macau closes casinos, most businesses as Covid-19 outbreak worsens

City to enter ‘static management’ for one week starting next Monday, with curfew for residents

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S’pore cops nab man for allegedly inciting violence against PM Lee

Police say 45-year-old committed offence through comment posted on Facebook

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Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa flees as protesters storm home, demanding resignation

Demonstrators surge Presidential Palace gates, incensed at govt over economic crisis

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Four wounded in Shanghai hospital stabbing

Attacker holds people hostage before being subdued by police

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India fines Amnesty nearly US$8 million after funding probe

Agency investigating financial crimes says it breached foreign funding laws, directed overseas contributions to expand local operations

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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts protest curfew after backlash

Authorities withdraw order after opposition parties, rights activists, bar association threaten to sue police chief

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15 pilgrims dead, 40 missing after cloudburst near Amarnath shrine in India

Police say rescue teams searching for people in debris, mud

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Japan mourns as body of assassinated PM Abe returns to Tokyo

Campaigning for upper house election resumes, politicians determined to show murder cannot stop democracy

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Assassination suspect admits targeting Abe: Japanese police

41-year-old says he believes former PM was linked to unnamed group, which media describes as religious

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Fourth arrest in Amazon murders of journalist, guide: police

Man goes to cops to deny claims in press he may have ordered killings

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Biden moves to protect women’s reproductive privacy after abortion ruling

US president under pressure for perceived lack of action following overturning of Roe v Wade 

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Russian ‘McDonald’s’ runs short of french fries

Shortage in chain, now known as ‘Vkusno i Tochka’, linked to Western sanctions hampering imports

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Leave means leave: UK PM Johnson faces calls to go now

Opposition Labour threatens to call no-confidence vote immediately to remove ‘proven liar’