Taiwan used to be home to a huge number of bears. No one really knows how many are left

Classified as "endangered" by the Taiwan government, Formosan black bears are being pushed to the brink of extinction by illegal hunting and land clearing.

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India's election spending surges past US to record high

India's general election wasn't just the world's biggest.

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Mass protest in Hong Kong over law critics fear could allow China to snatch anyone

Tens if not hundreds of thousands of protesters are due to take to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday to oppose a controversial extradition bill that would enable China to extradite fugitives from the city.

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India's trash mountains are a fetid symbol of the country's plastic problem

Ravidas in New Delhi is a slum like no other. There are no fetid open sewers brimming with human waste or piles of trash lining every alley and corner. The residents of this ramshackle community run a tight ship.

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Vietnamese blogger sentenced to 6 years in jail for environmental protest

A Vietnamese environmental activist and blogger has been sentenced to six years in prison under the country's new law that cracks down on online dissent.

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94 Taiwanese criminal suspects extradited from Spain to Beijing

A charter flight carrying 94 Taiwanese criminal suspects arrived in Beijing from Spain on Friday morning, making it the first large-scale extradition from Europe to China, state media reported.

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Australian authorities make the largest onshore meth bust in the country's history

Australian authorities made the country's largest onshore methamphetamine seizure when police found 1.6 tons of drugs hidden in a shipment of stereo speakers from Thailand, the federal agency announced on Friday.

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Gaokao: Can you pass China's toughest exam?

Millions of Chinese high schoolers will sit the country's grueling two-day college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, this week.

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Why seahorses are being used as a natural Viagra

A popular treatment for male sexual dysfunction, many seahorses are becoming endangered. Is Chinese medicine to blame?

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Cardinal Pell back in prison while judges consider appeal

Cardinal George Pell will remain behind bars while an Australian appeals court considers whether to overturn his conviction on five charges of sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.

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Indian military plane vanishes mid-flight

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Thailand's junta chief elected as country's next prime minister

Thailand's military junta chief, Prayut Chan-o-cha, was elected as the country's first civilian prime minister since he took power in a coup in 2014 by members of Thailand's lower and upper houses of Parliament Wednesday night.

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China ratchets up anti-US rhetoric with old war films and travel alerts

China's latest message to its people: The United States is evil -- don't go there.

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North Korea's famed Mass Games put on pause after Kim Jong Un criticism

North Korea's famed Mass Games is being put on pause, according to tour groups that organize visits to the country, two days after Kim Jong Un was reported to have criticized the creators of this year's performance.

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Man falls for cash-for-sex scam and tries to cover it up with kidnapping story, police say

A Singaporean man is being investigated by police after allegedly lodging a false kidnapping claim in an attempt to cover up his involvement in a cash-for-sex scam.

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Xi to meet 'best and bosom friend' Putin amid raging US trade war

Chinese President Xi Jinping will touch down in Russia Wednesday to meet his "best friend" President Vladimir Putin, cementing economic ties between Moscow and Beijing amid China's heated trade war with the United States.

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Poor weather hampers search for UK hiker missing in New Zealand mountains

Poor weather conditions are hampering the search for a British hiker who has been missing for five days in New Zealand.

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Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Texas couple on holiday in Fiji die from unidentified illness

The deaths of an American couple who became ill while vacationing in Fiji late last month are being investigated by health officials on the South Pacific Island, with help from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, authorities said Tuesday.

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Tiananmen Square Fast Facts

View CNN's Tiananmen Square Fast Facts for more information about the events in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989.

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Cardinal Pell's lawyers seek to free convicted sex attacker on appeal

Cardinal George Pell, who was once one of the most powerful men in the Roman Catholic Church, could be released from prison this week, if an Australian appeals court overturns his conviction for historical sexual abuse.

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Swathes of India are sweltering under a severe heatwave with temperatures touching a blistering 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in the northwest of the country.

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'Executed' North Korean diplomat is alive, sources say

The North Korean diplomat who South Korea's largest newspaper said had been executed by firing squad is alive and in state custody, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

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Narendra Modi Fast Facts

View CNN's Narendra Modi Fast Facts and learn more about India's Prime Minister.

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China warns students: Be careful if studying in US

The Chinese Ministry of Education has warned students to be careful if studying in the United States -- the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries.

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'Purged' Kim Yong Chol's reappearance punches hole in sensationalist story

High-ranking North Korean diplomat Kim Yong Chol was identified attending an art performance alongside leader Kim Jong Un in the country's state media on Sunday -- two days after one of South Korea's biggest newspapers said he had been banished and sentenced to hard labor and his deputy executed.

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Rescue team finds buried backpack in hunt for 8 missing in Himalayas

A helicopter search team in the Indian Himalayas has reportedly spotted a backpack in the snow on the unnamed peak where eight climbers are believed to have gone missing a week ago.

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Tiananmen massacre a 'vaccination' against turmoil: Chinese state media

A Chinese state-run newspaper has described the massacre that ended mass pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 as a "vaccination" that protected the country from future "political turmoil."

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5 dishes every Hanoi visitor needs to try

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Best places to visit for the ultimate Asia experience

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Tiananmen Square massacre: How Beijing turned on its own people

As the sun rose on the morning of June 4, 1989, the Chinese people woke to a country which had changed overnight.

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They faced down the tanks in Tiananmen Square. Now they want their children to forget it

Thirty years ago, in the heart of the Chinese capital Beijing, Dong Shengkun threw two flaming, gas-soaked rags at a military truck after a night of bloody violence in the city. It was a move that would ruin his life.

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Philippine President Duterte says he 'used to be gay'

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told a crowd he "used to be gay" before he "cured" himself.

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Rescuers 'hopeful' of finding eight climbers missing in Himalayas

Rescuers say they are still "hopeful" of finding alive eight climbers who have been missing on a notoriously difficult to climb mountain in the Indian Himalayas for a week.

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