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Pro-independence activist Edward Leung walks inside a detention centre before leaving for the High Court for a sentencing hearing in Hong Kong. / Internet photo

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist jailed six years for rioting, assaulting police

Monday, June 11, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a photo session of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Heads of State ahead of a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State in Qingdao, China June 10, 2018. (L-R): Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Republic of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain. / Internet photo

Chinese newspapers contrast security summit success with G7 disarray

Monday, June 11, 2018

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. / Internet photo

Rouhani criticizes U.S. 'unilateralism' over nuclear deal

Monday, June 11, 2018

Smoke rises from a storage site in Baghdad, housing ballot boxes from Iraq's May parliamentary election. / Internet photo

Iraqi ballot box storage site catches fire in Baghdad

Monday, June 11, 2018

Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S. in September 2013. / Internet photo

Panama’s former president to be extradited home Monday: lawyer

Monday, June 11, 2018

Security forces carry ballot boxes as smoke rises from the storage site in Baghdad. Net photo.

PM al-Abadi: Fire at ballot-box warehouse plot to harm Iraq

Monday, June 11, 2018

Pope Francis. Net photo.

Climate change: Pope urges action on clean energy

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Social media site Facebook. The social media giant has denied claims that it allowed hardware makers access to its personal user data. Net photo.

Facebook data war now turns to device makers

Sunday, June 10, 2018

EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini along with Foreign ministers from Britain, Germany and France meet Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Brussels, Belgium, May 15, 2018. / Internet photo

EU officially asks for exemptions from Iran sanctions

Thursday, June 07, 2018

Soldiers search for remains at an area affected by the eruption of the Fuego volcano at El Rodeo in Escuintla, Guatemala June 6, 2018. / Internet photo

Rescuers search for missing near Guatemala volcano as death toll climbs

Thursday, June 07, 2018

The mosque is frequented by supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada's al-Sadr whose Sairoon coalition won a plurality of seats, 54 in total, in the last parliamentary elections earlier in May. / Internet photo

Deadly twin blasts hit a Shia mosque in Baghdad

Thursday, June 07, 2018

A photo distributed by the Houthi Military Media Unit shows the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Saudi Arabia March 25, 2018. / Internet photo

Yemen peace plan sees ceasefire, Houthis abandoning missiles

Thursday, June 07, 2018

AH-64 Apache helicopter fires flares during Han Kuang military drill simulating the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) invading the island, at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, in Taichung, Taiwan June 7, 2018. / Internet photo

Taiwan holds large-scale military drills amid China tensions

Thursday, June 07, 2018

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Southeast Asia's plastic 'addiction' blights world's oceans

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

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Philippines' Duterte says will quit if enough women protest his kiss

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

A view of Sentosa island and the skyline of the central business district in Singapore June 4, 2018. / Internet photo

Singapore to restrict airspace during U.S.-North Korea summit

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Jordanian protesters shout slogans and raise a national flag during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's office in the capital Amman late on Friday. / Internet photo

Jordan's prime minister steps down after mass protests

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

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Guatemala volcano explodes again, evacuations ordered

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Esraa Albuti, an Executive Director at Ernst & Young, holds her new driving licence issued by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. / Internet photo

Saudi Arabia issues its first driver's licenses to women

Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Workers at a uranium conversion facility in Iran, pictured in 2005. / Internet photo

Iran nuclear deal: Tehran to give notice of uranium work

Tuesday, June 05, 2018