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December 18, 2025

US announces more than $10bn of arms sales to Taiwan

Package includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, and has drawn an angry response from China

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December 17, 2025

Bondi terror suspects spent whole Philippines visit in city and rarely left hotel, staff and police say

Philippine police dismiss speculation Naveed and Sajid Akram underwent training during four-week stay in Davao CityThe Bondi terror attacks suspects...

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December 16, 2025

Governments and rights groups condemn conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai

UK, EU and Australia say guilty verdict against 78-year-old is further blow to democracy and press freedom in territoryGovernments, institutions and...

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December 15, 2025

Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom

Rights groups dismiss ‘sham conviction’ of media tycoon on national security offences in city’s most closely watched rulings in decades

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December 14, 2025

Hong Kong’s last major opposition party disbands amid Chinese pressure

Senior DP members previously allege being told to disband or face severe consequences including possible arrestHong Kong’s last major opposition...

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December 13, 2025

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continues despite Trump claim of renewed ceasefire

Trump announced the agreement after calls with Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet

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December 11, 2025

Half a million evacuated on Thai-Cambodia border as Trump makes diplomatic push to end fighting

At least 15 people killed, while more than 500,000 people have fled border areas near where jets, tanks and drones were waging battleHalf a million...

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December 11, 2025

‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’The climate crisis supercharged the deadly...

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December 11, 2025

Sexually explicit letters about exiled Hong Kong activists sent to UK and Australian addresses

Exclusive: Letters with deepfake images of Carmen Lau in UK and targeting of Ted Hui in Australia part of growing harassmentSexually explicit letters...

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December 10, 2025

‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing...

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December 10, 2025

Trump says he will make a call to end hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia ‘at it again’

After a ceasefire deal he brokered collapsed, Trump told a rally in Pennsylvania that he would ‘make a call’ to ‘stop a war’ between Thailand and...

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December 09, 2025

China’s record trade surplus reveals its biggest strength – and hidden weakness

Booming Chinese exports have driven trade surplus past $1tn but also reveal the extent of country’s reliance on foreign marketsA boom in exports that...

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