Covid-19 is spreading like wildfire in North Korea

Yet Kim Jong Un has been reluctant to accept offers of help

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North Korea admits it has an outbreak of covid-19

An unvaccinated population and minimal health infrastructure spell disaster

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Australians are fed up with their two main parties

They may turn to independents in record numbers in elections this month

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Sri Lanka has no money and no government. What now?

The prime minister and the cabinet are gone but the president clings on

6d

The Taliban crave recognition but refuse to do anything to earn it

Afghanistan’s neighbours are wondering how on earth to deal with it

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Fifty years after America returned Okinawa to Japan, it still feels cut off

No one listens to the islanders’ complaints about American bases

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How Narendra Modi is remaking India into a Hindu state

The prime minister and his party are laying waste to the secular underpinnings of the constitution

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Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigns in the face of escalating protests

The violence will make the country’s crisis even harder to resolve

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Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos wins the Philippine presidency in a landslide

Mr Marcos and his running mate, Sara Duterte, each took some 60% of the vote

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Indian power plants are running out of coal

The dysfunctional power sector is struggling to handle surging demand

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