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Protesters at a rally against impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. — AFP

Thousands of South Koreans take to Seoul streets for rival protests over impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) extends a handshake toIndonesia's President Prabowo Subianto at the presidential palace in Bogor, West Java, on January 11, 2025. — AFP pic

Japan pledges patrol boats to Indonesia amid rising South China Sea tensions

A flight information display shows cancelled flights at Washington Dulles International airport, Virginia on January 6, 2025. — AFP pic

Air travel chaos in US as thousands of flights cancelled, postponed by severe storm

Thai and Cambodian authorities are investigating the fatal fall of a Thai man from a building near their borders on January 7, 2025, said to be a central location to house a call centre scam run by a Chinese national. — File picture by Hari Anggara

CCTV footage of Thai man’s fall to death sparks investigations into border town building alleged by ex-PM Thaksin to be Cambodian scammer HQ

Former Miss Thailand And Miss Universe Porntip Nakhirunkanok said her Malibu home of 25 years had been razed to the ground in the wildfires. — Picture from Facebook/Porntip Nakhirunkanok (Bui Simon)

Former Miss Universe Porntip Nakhirunkanok loses Malibu home to LA wildfires

Composite pictures show a forest fire raging on Khao Loi mountain in Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima since January 3, 2025 that is threatening to destroy the Khao Yai National Park, a Unesco World Heritage site in Thailand. — Pictures from Facebook/Thanasak Love King

Thailand’s Unesco-heritage listed Khao Yai National Park at risk as wildfires burnt 400-ha forest since Jan 3

Police tape is pictured where a Cambodian MP was reportedly shot, in Bangkok on January 7, 2025. — AFP pic

Cambodia sends suspected political assassin back to Thailand

Smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire burn toward the Encino neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, January 10, 2025. — AFP pic

Finger-pointing starts even as LA burns on

Undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location released on January 1 by South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport shows the flight data recorder (FDR) retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216. — AFP

South Korea Transport Ministry say Jeju Air flight 2216 black boxes stopped recording four minutes before crash

US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2025.  — AFP pic

Biden denounces ‘shameful’ Meta decision to abandon fact-checking, says could cause ‘real-world harm’ globally

A burned sign sits following the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood in Los Angeles, California, US on January 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

Thousands homeless as flames ravage LA, destruction mounts in unprecedented wildfire crisis

US President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing at the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York City, US, January 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

Judge in Trump’s hush money trial sentences US president-elect to… nothing

The wind whips embers while firefighters battle the fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson as the wildfires burn in the Los Angeles area, during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, U.S. January 9, 2025.  — Reuters pic

As LA burns, right-wing disinformation finds blame in everything from DEI strategy to ‘liberal’ policies

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024. — AFP pic

Deadly heat at Haj: How Saudi Arabia can plan to prevent another tragedy for Muslim pilgrims

Fertility rates in Iran have plummeted, from an average of 6.4 children per woman to just 1.6 in 2023. — AFP pic

Not enough money, not enough optimism: Iran wants more kids, but families reluctant amid economic turmoil

The Death Valley National Park in Southern California on July 7, 2024. — AFP pic

Climate crisis intensifies: 2024 pushes global temperatures past critical thresholds