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'Slow-moving crisis' as Beijing bolsters South China Sea war platformUS thinktank reveals satellite images showing new munitions depots, radar systems and fighter jet deployments to disputed region in 2017 -
Nigerian man jailed for role in global email scamsDavid Chukwuneke Adindu tricked victims into wiring more than $25m into bank accounts he opened in China -
Delhi high court takes up lawsuit into Adani Group fraud allegationsIndian government ordered to respond to claims energy firms conspired to siphon money from state and defraud consumers
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The Guardian view on Myanmar: telling the truth about the RohingyaEditorial: Research by Médecins Sans Frontières suggests that at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of attacks in Rakhine state
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6,700 Rohingya Muslims killed in one month in Myanmar, MSF saysAt least 730 young children among people shot, burned or beaten to death in Rakhine state between August and September
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Bollywood sexual harassment: minister for women writes to film-makersProducers and actors are asked to provide safer work environment, a day after actors’ accounts of harassment emerge
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Living alongside elephants: a study of human and animal habitatsA new book commissioned by David Attenborough’s charity, The World Land Trust, documents life on the small and important elephant corridor which allows the animals to cross safely between ranges in Kerala, India
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'A gift from the sky': record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan – video
A professor in Taiwan claims to have witnessed the longest ever visible rainbow, clocking in at nearly nine hours, and plans to submit it for a world record.
The rainbow lasted for eight hours and 58 minutes in the mountains around the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, according to Chou Kun-hsuan, a professor at the Chinese Culture University.
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Panda cub growls and jumps at France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron – video
The ceremony at the Beauval zoo, south of Paris, was an important diplomatic moment, but the four-month-old male cub decided otherwise, making a growling sound and jumping towards Macron when she put her hand over a glass wall to pet the panda
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‘Not much time left’ to solve North Korea problem without conflict, says Trump adviser – video
HR McMaster called North Korea's attempts to develop long-range nuclear weapons the 'greatest immediate threat to the United States'
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Mount Agung volcano erupting in Bali – in picturesIndonesian authorities have raised the alert to the highest level and ordered people within 10km of Mount Agung to leave the area. The volcano, rising about 3,000 metres above Bali’s Karangasem district, had its last major eruption in 1963, killing about 1,100 people
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Pope Francis meets Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh - video
Pope Francis has called for 'decisive measures' to resolve the political crisis causing mostly Muslim refugees from neighbouring Myanmar to flee to Bangladesh
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Pope Francis visits Myanmar and Bangladesh – in picturesPope Francis visits Myanmar, a country facing global condemnation over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims, and travels on to its neighbour
Japanese kanji of the year is 'north' – thanks to Kim Jong-un