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North Korean propaganda village ‘Gijungdong’ is seen from a South Korea observation post inside the Joint Security Area (JSA) during a media tour of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) in the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, March 3, 2023. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Seoul suspends ‘Voice of Freedom’ broadcast to North Korea for first time in 15 years

Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a screen at the media centre during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin September 1, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

China’s Xi slams ‘bullying’ behaviour in world order

Police officers oversee the loading of a car with a smashed window onto a flatbed truck after it crashed into the Russian consulate in Sydney September 1, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Man arrested after ramming car into Russian consulate gates in Sydney

Armed Indonesian military troops prepare at the National Monument (Monas) complex for deployment in Jakarta August 31, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Indonesian student and civil society groups call off protests today, citing heightened security

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr on August 28, 2025, lashed out at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a day after its director Susan Monarez was ousted, saying the storied agency has ‘problems’ and needs to be overhauled. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Directors who quit US health agency warn it is ‘destroying’ protections

The containers, invented in Japan in 1954, were first made of glass or ceramic before mass-produced plastic versions became a global staple. Their small size makes them difficult to recycle efficiently. — Picture via Reddit
World / 01 Sep 2025

South Australia becomes first place to ban fish-shaped plastic soy sauce packets

Protesters rides motorcycles in front of a police headquarters that was burned and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya August 31, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Tense streets: Indonesia boosts security after fatal protests over lawmaker perks

Protesters calling for the closure of The Bell Hotel which houses asylum seekers, gather outside the council offices in Epping August 31, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Protests erupt again at Essex hotel as UK debate over migrant accommodation intensifies

A boy climbs from out of the rubble of a collapsed building that was hit by bombardment in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip August 30, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Report: US could take control of Gaza, displace all its people under Trump-backed postwar plan

Giuliani’s spokesman, Michael Ragusa, said that before the crash, Giuliani had stopped to assist a domestic violence victim. How this incident is connected to the crash remains unclear. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani hospitalised with fractured vertebrae after car crash in New Hampshire

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) taking part in an exercise at JGSDF Camp Naha in Okinawa Prefecture June 9, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 01 Sep 2025

Pacifist Japan’s rearmament drive faces a manpower crisis as China anxiety grows