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WikiLeaks’ Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fight
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to a single felony charge for publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security.
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Who is Julian Assange, the polarizing founder of the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks?
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North Korea’s latest missile test likely ended in failure, South Korea’s military says
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Britain’s King Charles III welcomes the visiting Japanese emperor and empress
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Doctors treat thousands of heatstroke victims in southern Pakistan as temperatures soar
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A Chinese lunar probe returns to Earth with the world’s first samples from the far side of the moon
The moon program is part of a growing rivalry with the U.S. — still the leader in space exploration — and others, including Japan and India.
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Nepalese spiritual leader ‘Buddha Boy’ convicted of sexual assault on minor
A court in southern Nepal has convict a controversial spiritual leader known as “Buddha Boy” on charges of sexually assaulting a minor.
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UN World Food Program decries looting and burning of its warehouse in western Myanmar combat zone
The United Nations’ food agency has strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses in a war-torn area in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.
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Hong Kong court edges closer to sentencing democracy activists involved in unofficial primary
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began to hear pleas for lenient sentences from some prominent pro-democracy activists who were found guilty in the city’s biggest national security case and now face up to life in prison.
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The Taliban confirm they will attend a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan
The Taliban have confirmed their delegation will attend an upcoming U.N.-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after the organizers said last week that women would be excluded from the gathering.
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Knife attack at a school bus stop in China wounds 3, including a Japanese mother and child
The Japanese embassy in China says a man has been detained after a knife attack that injured three people at a bus stop in the city of Suzhou.
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Australian leaders cautiously welcome expected plea that could bring WikiLeaks founder Assange home
Australian leaders are cautiously welcoming an expected plea agreement that could set free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The U.S.
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Timeline of the Julian Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents.
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Indonesia won’t pay an $8 million ransom after a cyberattack compromised its national data center
Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay.
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South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South, probably carrying trash
South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South that are likely to be carrying trash.
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Vietnam’s VinFast looks to tiny EV, priced at less than $10,000, to change its fortunes
Vietnamese automaker VinFast has a big problem: It just can’t sell enough cars. Idle factories bleed money and the company’s financial health is at stake.
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South Korean investigators search in factory ruins after fire killed 23, mostly Chinese migrants
Forensic and other experts are combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South Korea’s capital to find the cause of a fire that killed 23 people, mostly Chinese migrant workers.
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Indonesia says a cyberattack has compromised its data center but it won’t pay the $8 million ransom
Authorities say Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government won’t pay.
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Malaysia Airlines flight to Bangkok makes a U-turn due to a pressurization issue
Malaysia Airlines says one of its plane en route to Bangkok made a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport after experiencing a “pressurization issue.”
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Philippine villagers smear mud on their bodies to show devotion to St. John the Baptist
BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — It is well before daybreak in Bibiclat, a village in the northern Philippines surrounded by rice fields.
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Pakistani police charge 23 people with being part of a mob that murdered a blasphemy suspect
Police in Pakistan have arrested 23 people accused of being part of a mob that killed a man suspected of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
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Leader of NATO member Poland visits China, talks to Xi about Ukraine, peace and trade
Polish President Andrzej Duda has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks on Ukraine, peace and bilateral trade on a visit to Beijing that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Chinese hackers have stepped up attacks on Taiwanese organizations, cybersecurity firm says
A cybersecurity intelligence company says a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has intensified attacks on Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as the government, education and technology.
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Killing of young Cambodian couple by businessman with honorary title revives concerns about impunity
A court in Cambodia has formally charged a real estate entrepreneur who held a royally bestowed title with the premeditated murder of a young couple in the capital Phnom Penh.
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Philippines says it won’t back down, but won’t start a war, after clash with Chinese Coast Guard
The president of the Philippines says his country will not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines will never instig
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India boosts defense ties with Bangladesh as it tries to become a counterweight to China
India and Bangladesh on Saturday moved to bolster their defense relationship and signed agreements for expanding cooperation in maritime security, ocean economy, space, and telecommunication sectors, as New Delhi tries to present itself as a regional power and a counterweight to China.
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UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
The United Nations’ top official in Afghanistan is defending the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries.
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A year ago, Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin with a mutiny
On a lazy summer weekend a year ago, Russia was jolted by the stunning news of an armed uprising. The swaggering chief of a Kremlin-sponsored mercenary army seized a military headquarters in the south and began marching toward Moscow to oust the Defense Ministry’s leaders, accusing them of starving
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A vocational school student stuns China by besting university competitors in a math contest
A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on Chinese social media after getting into the final round of a math competition, beating many others from elite universities while raising questions about the education system.
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China sanctions several Lockheed Martin units, three executives over arms deals with Taiwan
China says it has banned a number of business units of American aviation maker Lockheed Martin Corporation and three of its executives over arms deals with Taiwan, the self-ruling island it claims as its own territory.
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Philippines won’t invoke mutual defense treaty with US after Chinese confrontation at disputed shoal
The Philippines says it has no plans to invoke its mutual defense treaty with the United States after the Chinese coast guard reportedly rammed, boarded and used machetes and axes to damage two Philippine navy boats in a chaotic faceoff that injured several Filipino navy personnel at a disputed shoa
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Vietnam says it’s ready to hold talks with Philippines on overlapping continental shelf claims
Vietnam says it’s ready to hold talks with the Philippines to settle their overlapping claims to the undersea continental shelf in the South China Sea.
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Pakistan police register a case against a mob that killed a man suspected of desecrating the Quran
Police in northwestern Pakistan have registered a case against hundreds of people who attacked a police station and killed a man being questioned there on suspicion of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
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South Korea summons Russian ambassador as tensions rise with North Korea
South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a defense pact with North Korea, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement vowing mutual defense with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a state visit to Pyongyang.
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Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit
An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make a fortune from it, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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A Muslim mob in Pakistan torches a police station and lynches a man after accusing him of blasphemy
A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan has lynched a man over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
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Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal granted bail after arrest in bribery case
Indian opposition leader and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by a court in the capital after he was arrested in a bribery case in March.
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Extreme heat in India has killed more than 100 people in the past three and a half months
Data from India’s Health Ministry shows a monthslong heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the last three and a half months.
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Pakistani rescuers call off search for a Japanese climber, days after his colleague’s body was found
Rescuers have called off a search for a Japanese mountaineer who went missing a week ago while trying to scale one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan.
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Mutual defense pact between North Korea and Russia raises new questions, but it’s far from unique
A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commits each country to come to the other’s aid if attacked.
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