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China uses maritime militia to assert claim on South China Sea (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

There may be as many as 300 vessels from China’s maritime militia patrolling the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea at any one...

Collapse of tourism cost five Asian nations 1.6 million jobs: UN (John Power, Al Jazeera)

The collapse of tourism due to the pandemic wiped out 1.6 million jobs in five Asian countries alone last year, according to the International...

Taiwan opens Lithuania office as China condemns ‘egregious’ move (Al Jazeera)

Taiwan has opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania in a diplomatic breakthrough for the self-ruled democratic island that China, which described the move...

Amazon deforestation in Brazil surges to 15-year high (Al Jazeera)

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest soared 22 percent in one year to the highest level since 2006, according to the government’s annual report, undercutting President Jair...

‘We are all suffering’: What’s going on inside Ecuador’s prisons? (Kimberley Brown, Al Jazeera)

More than 300 people have been killed inside Ecuador’s prisons so far this year, as a series of violent riots between rival gangs left officials scrambling...

Yunior Garcia: Cuban activist who fled promises to return home (Al Jazeera)

A leading Cuban pro-democracy activist has pledged to return to his home country after arriving in Spain with his wife. Yunior Garcia, a 39-year-old playwright, told reporters...

Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill closer to law (Al Jazeera)

Democrats in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill — despite a non-partisan arbiter’s...

Families bury bodies of Kashmir civilians, shutdown in protest (Al Jazeera)

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have exhumed the bodies of two civilians and returned them to their families who claim Indian troops used them as...

India’s Modi says will repeal controversial farm laws (Al Jazeera)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a...

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