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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivering a video speech to the United Nations Climate Summit 2025 held in New York on Sept. 24, 2025

China eyes reshaping global order as US influence wanes

PoliticsFebruary 2, 2026
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February 2, 2026

China: Four more people executed in Myanmar scam crackdown

February 1, 2026

India sets record budget for infrastructure, defense

February 1, 2026

Pakistan: 145 militants killed after suicide and gun attacks

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Reports & Analysis

Indien Westbengalen | Teeanbau für Eco India

Climate change reshaping West Bengal’s tea industry

Climate change reshaping West Bengal’s tea industry

New methods aim to protect incomes and improve the lives of women workers who power a tea sector hit by erratic weather.
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 2, 202605:47 min
Jimmy Lai waits seen between two prison walls topped with barbed wire at the Stanley prison in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023

Jimmy Lai: A life that rose and fell with Hong Kong

Jimmy Lai: A life that rose and fell with Hong Kong

Through objects linked to the Hong Kong media tycoon, scholar Chan Kin-man reflects on Lai's dramatic rise and fall.
PoliticsFebruary 2, 202605:58 min
A group of seated people seen from behind. They are listening to a speaker in front of a white banner.

Bangladesh's Gen-Z party tested by electoral politics

Bangladesh's Gen-Z party tested by electoral politics

Born out of a student uprising that toppled a government, Bangladesh's National Citizen Party is now chasing votes.
PoliticsFebruary 2, 202602:38 min
A huge computer simulation of the planned Chinese space aircraft carrier Luanniao from a CCTV video

China's space aircraft carrier: superweapon or propaganda?

China's space aircraft carrier: superweapon or propaganda?

China's gigantic space carrier Luanniao: A vision for war in space — or science fiction?
ScienceFebruary 2, 2026
Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a detained Filipino journalist, gestures as she arrives at Tacloban Regional Trial Court in Leyte island on January 22, 2026

Philippines: Are terror laws being used to silence critics?

Philippines: Are terror laws being used to silence critics?

The conviction of a local journalist on terror-financing charges has raised concerns over press freedoms in the country.
Law and JusticeFebruary 1, 2026
Security officials examine damaged vehicles at the site of a powerful car bombing, in Quetta, the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Pakistan: Dozens killed in clashes with Baloch separatists

Pakistan: Dozens killed in clashes with Baloch separatists

At least 10 security personnel and dozens of rebels were killed in a series of gun battles, officials said.
ConflictsJanuary 31, 202601:31 min
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protesters against Taliban joining the Afghan embassy in Berlin

Germany: Afghanistan's consulates pose threat to refugees

Afghanistan's consulates in Germany are being taken over by Taliban officials, posing a threat to Afghan refugees.
PoliticsFebruary 1, 2026
Silhouette of a member of Bamar People's Liberation Army (BPLA) stands guard, seen in profile, against a mountain range

Myanmar marks bitter 5-year anniversary of 2021 coup

After half a decade of bloody fighting, a resurgent military faces a determined but splintered armed resistance.
ConflictsJanuary 31, 2026
A rabies information seminar at Mararison Elementary School on Mararison Island in Culasi, Antique, Philippines

Inside the Philippines' struggle for rural health care

The Philippines' "doctors to the barrios" model reveals why rural care remains fragile despite years of reforms.
HealthJanuary 28, 2026
South Korea's National Assembly passes a bill allowing heavy punitive damages against traditional news and internet media. Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, December 24, 2025

South Korea's 'fake news' law tests press autonomy

Critics accuse lawmakers of pushing measures that could stifle a free press.
Press FreedomJanuary 27, 2026
A car battery and power train developed by Chinese company CATL

Germany weighs boon and bane of China's industrial expansion

A Chinese battery maker in Germany shows how the two industrial superpowers both compete and profit from each other.
BusinessJanuary 24, 2026
Protesters raise placard asking for release of Muslim activists during rally in New Delhi (September 13, 2025)

India: Security, terrorism laws used to silence dissent

Under India's UAPA law, a suspect can spend years in jail without trial based on a shaky definition of terrorism.
Rule of LawJanuary 16, 2026
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A model with short dark hair is shown in close-up; she is wearing a dress that resembles splashing water droplets or a breaking wave. An air bubble seems to surround her head.

Paris Fashion Week 2026 in pictures

Haute couture is more art than clothing, presented in a suitably extravagant manner at the Paris Fashion Show.
ArtsFebruary 2, 20269 images
Indonesian male model Raihan Fahrizal stands on a decorative bridge in Paris, France. In the background are some boats and the sky is cloudy.

From underdog to top model in Paris

Raihan Fahrizal, one of the few Indonesian male models in Paris, is regularly booked by the world's top fashion houses.
LifestyleJanuary 31, 202604:40 min
The image shows Tumpa Pal, the first person with visual impairments trained as a health worker by the Foundation for Innovations in Health

In Indian Sundarbans, tech enables health care for all

In India's West Bengal state, DW follows a health worker who is blind as she brings care to patients in remote villages.
HealthJanuary 30, 202604:11 min