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Saturday, March 2, 2019

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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Friday, March 1, 2019

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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Thursday, February 28, 2019

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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