Philippine news site and company chief face charges

The Philippine Department of Justice has charged one of the country's top media outlets and the company's president with tax evasion.

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Sri Lanka's President dissolves parliament amid political crisis

The President of Sri Lanka dissolved parliament on Friday and called a snap election for January 5, in a move aimed at ending a political standoff that has disrupted its capital, Colombo, for weeks.

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How Hong Kong plans to replace 100,000 trees

Downed trees and fallen branches still litter Hong Kong nearly two months after Typhoon Mangkhut ripped through the city.

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Melbourne terror attack: Gas canisters found in car

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Imelda Marcos arrest warrant issued after failing to appear in court

An arrest warrant has been filed for Imelda Marcos after the former Philippines First Lady failed to appear in court at the end of her corruption trial, according to a court official.

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BTS performance in Japan canceled amid anger over atomic bomb shirt

One of Japan's biggest television stations has canceled a performance of the massively popular K-pop group BTS amid allegations that one of the band members wore a shirt that appears to show the atomic bombing of Nagaski.

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Australia's plan to challenge China in the South Pacific

On the day Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne met Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing to signal the beginning of a thaw in the Australia-China bilateral relationship, her boss, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, announced a $2.2 billion infrastructure package as part of the government's "step-up to the Pacific."

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'Grave infringement of press freedom': Hong Kong denies entry to senior British journalist

A senior British journalist denied a work visa by the Hong Kong authorities was barred from entering the city as a tourist Thursday, in the same week a talk by exiled Chinese dissident writer Ma Jian was canceled, raising new fears over press freedoms in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.

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Asia Bibi seeks asylum in the Netherlands

An asylum application has been filed in the Netherlands for Asia Bibi, the Christian Pakistani woman acquitted last week of blasphemy charges, her lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

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Lion Air: Sensor was replaced day before crash but problems persisted

Problems were reported on a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea off Jakarta even after technicians replaced a sensor on board the aircraft, investigators said.

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Asia Bibi moved to another part of Pakistan

Asia Bibi, a Christian woman whose death sentence was overturned last week by Pakistan's Supreme Court, has been moved from her jail cell to an undisclosed location in another part of the country, intelligence sources in Pakistan told CNN on Thursday.

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Boeing issues operational manual to airlines following Lion Air crash

Boeing has issued operational guidance to airlines as investigators continue to probe what happened to Lion Air Flight 610 which crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 passengers.

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High-level US-North Korea meeting postponed without reason

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Delhi's auto rickshaw drivers brace for deadly winter air pollution

In Delhi the air is ranked among the the worst in the world. For those whose jobs require them to be outdoors the risks are particularly acute.

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China's trade war woes won't go away after Democrats' midterm gains

The Democrats have retaken the US House of Representatives, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump's domestic agenda, but if anxious politicians in Beijing think that means a reprieve from the White House, they should think again.

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Bill Gates uses poop as prop to pitch futuristic toilet

The Microsoft founder stunned the crowd at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing with a jar of human feces in his hand.

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Prosecutors investigate 'whale jail' in Russian Far East

Local reports emerged of more than 100 orcas and beluga whales in captivity in Srednyaya Bay, near the city of Nakhodka.

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Widow: Utah mayor died for democracy so it's 'fitting' his body comes home on Election Day

The widow of a Utah mayor fatally shot while serving in Afghanistan met his body in Dover, Delaware, on Tuesday before delivering a poignant statement on the importance of voting, a cause for which her husband was willing to die.

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Uyghur crackdown in Xinjiang doubles security spending in one year

Spending on prisons and security-related construction in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang doubled between 2016 and 2017 new research has revealed, undermining China's denial of the existence of mass internment camps.

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Japan's youth suicide rate highest in 30 years

More Japanese children and teenagers killed themselves between 2016 and 2017 than in any year since 1986, according to a new government report.

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Fisherman saves toddler floating face-down in the ocean

Gus Hutt rescued the toddler on the coast of New Zealand, after spotting the child floating in the water.

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Asia Bibi stuck in Pakistani prison over death fears

A Pakistani Christian woman whose death sentence for blasphemy charges was commuted last week is trapped in a prison that has been converted into a safe house, a source told CNN on Monday.

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Lion Air crash: Plane was intact when it crashed, investigators say

Lion Air Flight 610 was intact with its engines running when it crashed at high speed into the Java Sea, the head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said Monday.

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Diwali: One festival, many customs

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China's Xi Jinping slams 'winner-takes-all' approach to trade

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken a veiled swipe at US President Donald Trump the day before the US midterm elections, denouncing a "winner-takes-all" attitude to international trade.

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What Sri Lanka's political crisis means for India and China

Observers in Beijing and Delhi are watching events in Sri Lanka closely to see what the country's constitutional crisis means for a bigger contest: the race for influence in the Indian ocean region.

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Pakistan's new government has given in to extremists, and not for the last time

On October 31, Pakistan's Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, a Christian woman languishing on death row since being convicted of blasphemy in 2010. It was a landmark decision for Pakistan, where the law is frequently unkind to religious minorities, and particularly to those accused of blasphemy.

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North Koreans issue nuclear threat ahead of high-level talks with US

As the United States and North Korea prepare for another round of high-level talks this week, Pyongyang's increasingly heated rhetoric has analysts worried that the stalemate between the two sides could lead to a breakdown in negotiations.

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Pacific island votes to remain part of France in independence referendum

The tiny Pacific territory of New Caledonia has voted to remain part of France in a long-awaited independence referendum which saw a much closer final result than expected.

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Lunar New Year Fast Facts

Read CNN's Fast Facts about the Lunar New Year, which is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.

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Can India's traffic be solved by Japanese tech?

Bangalore, the capital of the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka, is hoping that an innovative new system will solve its notorious congestion.

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Like many Indian cities, Bangalore suffers from major traffic problems. It has received a grant from a Japanese development agency to install a smart transport system across the city that aims to cut traffic at key intersections by 30%.

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Can South Korea fix its deadly working culture and give people their lives back?

It takes Park Hyun-suk, a widow who lost her husband to gwarosa -- the Korean word for death by overwork -- a long time to find a photo of them together.

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Asia Bibi's lawyer flees Pakistan in fear for his life, associate says

The lawyer representing acquitted Pakistani Christian woman, Asia Bibi, has fled Pakistan in fear for his life, an associate told CNN on Sunday.

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Lion Air crash: Signal from black box lost, searchers say

Divers searching for the wreckage of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 can no longer hear a signal from the aircraft's missing cockpit voice recorder, the head of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday.

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