South Korea's plastic problem is a literal trash fire

Uiseong, a picturesque South Korean farming county, was a backwater until homegrown heroes the Garlic Girls became breakout stars and curling silver medalists at last year's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

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Crisis may be easing, but nuclear threat still hangs over India and Pakistan

Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the past two decades.

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Pakistan Fast Facts

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Pakistan and learn more about the country that borders Iran, Afghanistan and India.

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Kashmir Fast Facts

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Kashmir, a region in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. India, Pakistan and China all claim partial or complete ownership.

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How the Wagah border post became a symbol of India-Pakistan rivalry

Pakistan was due to hand a captured pilot over to India on Friday at the Wagah border post, which has taken on a symbolic role in the decades-long rivalry between the two nuclear-armed countries.

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Hope fades for 3 dozen trapped gold miners

Hopes for the survival of about three dozen miners trapped in a collapsed illegal gold mine in Indonesia have severely diminished as oxygen levels at the site fall.

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Philippines journalist Maria Ressa's court appearance postponed

Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist and outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, has had her court appearance postponed, after she filed a motion to quash her controversial libel case.

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Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong seek visa extension as they scramble to secure safe haven

Two women who fled Saudi Arabia for Australia, only to become trapped in transit in Hong Kong, are seeking a last minute visa extension from the city's authorities as they try and secure a more permanent refuge.

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Why China doesn't want to get caught in the middle of a India-Pakistan conflict

Beijing is on the verge of being sucked into an India-Pakistan crisis, amid rising tensions in the Kashmir region that borders China.

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North Korea asked for only a partial lifting of sanctions at summit with Trump, its foreign minister said

North Korea only asked for a partial lifting of sanctions during its meeting this week with US President Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said Thursday during a rare news conference.

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Indian PM Modi's reputation as a strong leader put to the test

As tensions between India and Pakistan escalate yet again with Delhi launching airstrikes on what it says was a terrorist training camp across its de facto border with Islamabad, all eyes are on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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How people are trying to end the India-Pakistan crisis one tweet at a time

As tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan simmer, some people -- mostly youths -- are trying to build bridges and dialogue between the two neighboring countries.

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Will Khan and Modi stand down from Kashmir conflict?

When two populists go to war, there is every chance their people will suffer more than they will.

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Is Imran Khan ready for his first big political test?

During Pakistan's national election campaign last year, Imran Khan was dismissed by detractors as a political lightweight and foreign policy novice who relied on populism and deference to the country's influential military for support.

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Why Kashmir means so much to both India and Pakistan

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Thousands of flights disrupted as Pakistan airspace closed

Pakistan airspace remained closed Thursday morning local time as the country's increasingly fraught tensions with India disrupted thousands of flights for the second straight day.

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India demands return of captured pilot

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Deadly landslide engulfs illegal Indonesian gold mine

A landslide that engulfed an illegal gold mine in Indonesia has killed at least one person and left dozens feared trapped. Fourteen others have been rescued.

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Vietnam's history holds lessons for Trump and Kim ahead of summit, PM says

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said his country will "spare no effort" to host a successful summit between North Korea and the United States because in the end, it would be less costly than a war.

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Singapore wants self-driving cars to help its aging society

It may look like a giant robotic bug but the MooAV could be the car of the future.

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The eSports giant that started with a click

Will Ripley investigates how an eSports boom helped Singapore-based startup Razer become a billion-dollar tech giant.

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What does a win for Kim look like in Hanoi?

The stakes are high for Trump-Kim round two.

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UN court orders UK to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius

The UK must return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius "as rapidly as possible," the United Nations' highest court ruled Monday, branding its occupation of the Indian Ocean archipelago illegal.

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Kim Jong Un arrives in Vietnam to a red carpet welcome ahead of summit

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Vietnam in his heavily armored train, ahead of his two day summit with US President Donald Trump in the capital Hanoi.

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Trump-Kim summit: What defectors think will happen

Arguably no group is more surprised by the rapidly changing image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un than the 30,000 people who successfully escaped his country for a new life in the south.

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Suspected Bangladesh plane hijacker shot dead

Bangladeshi commandos have stormed a passenger plane and shot dead a man who allegedly tried to hijack it, authorities said.

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Trump could try to sell North Korea a Vietnam model. But Kim's unlikely to be buying

The night before his historic summit with US President Donald Trump last June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took a surprise stroll in downtown Singapore to see the sights of the wealthy capitalist city.

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