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Afghan women footballers celebrate 'historic moment'

 A FIFA rule change allowing Afghanistan's women footballers to compete in official matches is a "historic moment" and "basic human right", former captain Khalida Popal told AFP on Thursday.Afghanistan will in...

Khalida Popal, founder of the Afghanistan women's national soccer team, poses

Direct Bangladesh-Pakistan flights to resume after 14 years

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Indonesia's flood kills 16, displaces hundreds

People use a rope to cross a river in the aftermath of flash floods that destroyed adjacent villages in Ketol, Indonesia's Aceh highland province on January 6, 2026. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

Thailand says Cambodia violated truce with 'accident'

A royalist activist protests in front of the Royal Embassy of Cambodia, in Bangkok. — Reuters

China hopes for stable ties with South Korea

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (L) takes a selfie with China's President Xi Jinping (R), in Beijing. — AFP

Strong quake hits western Japan, no tsunami warning

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Xi urges S Korea's Lee to make 'right choices'

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping (R), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. — AFP

Sri Lanka targets 3 million tourists to aid cyclone recovery

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Malaysia to introduce 10-year term limit for prime minister

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Sushi chain pays record $3.2 million for tuna

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China, Pakistan pledge deeper cooperation in trade

ndor with his face covered in cloth carries food items on a bicycle along a street amid dense smog in Lahore on December 30, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

Indian diaspora magazine launched

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N Korea fires ballistic missiles in first test of 2026

People sit as news broadcast with footage of a North Korean missile test, in Seoul. — AFP

South Korea's president lands in China

South Korea President Lee Jae Myung (R) and his wife Kim Hea Kyung (L) board their plane to depart for China at Seoul Air Base. — AFP

Cambodia demands Thailand withdraw border troops

A man kneels beside unexploded mortar shells in Boeung Trakoun village. — AFP

Thailand releases Cambodian soldiers held since July

Cambodian people welcome soldiers as a bus passes by in Phnom Penh. _ AFP
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