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(FILES) Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his fist as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024. - Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran's only reformist candidate in the latest presidential election, has risen from relative obscurity to become the ninth president of the Islamic republic on July 6, 2024. Pezeshkian, 69, won around 53.6 percent of the vote in a runoff election against the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election

Iran’s reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the interior ministry said. Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes and Jalili more than 13
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Shopkeepers sell accessories at a mobile market in Lahore on July 4, 2024. - Pakistan's tax authorities said on July 4 it has blocked 210,000 sim cards of users who have not filed tax returns in a bid to widen the revenue bracket. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

Pakistan blocks 210,000 SIM cards to encourage tax payment

Pakistan’s tax authority said Thursday it has blocked 210,000 SIM cards of users who have not filed tax returns in a bid to widen the revenue bracket. Only 5.2 million people of
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Hoardings with portraits of former police constable-turned-Hindu preacher Bhole Baba are kept at a workshop near his ashram in Bichhawan village of Mainpuri district, in IndiaÂ’s Uttar Pradesh state on July 4, 2024. - Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his latest sermon ended in a stampede that killed 121 of his followers. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

Indian preacher not hiding after stampede, says lawyer

The self-styled Indian preacher whose latest sermon ended in a deadly stampede is not hiding from police, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday, without disclosing the guru’s whereabouts. Bhole Baba’s prayer meeting
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Shopkeepers attend a phone call as they wait for customers at a medical store in Fenchuganj, in Sylhet on July 3, 2024. - Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said on July 3. (Photo by Mamun Hossain / AFP)

Floods kill nine in India, Bangladesh

Torrential rains and surging rivers across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh have killed at least nine people, disaster officials said Thursday, with more than three million people affected. Monsoon rains cause widespread
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A Palestinian youth sits in the shade, on the remains of a chair placed on the rubble of buildings destroyed in previous Israeli bombardment, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City on July 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group. - Israel's military said on July 3, it was conducting raids backed by air strikes in northern Gaza, killing "dozens" of militants in an area where it had declared the command structure of Hamas dismantled months ago. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Nine in 10 Gazans displaced since war began – UN

Around nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since the war between Israel and Hamas began, the UN humanitarian agency said Wednesday. Andrea De
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Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on July 3, 2024. - Hezbollah said it fired "100 Katyusha rockets" at two Israeli positions on July 3 after an Israeli strike in south Lebanon killed a senior commander from the group. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Hezbollah fires rockets at Israeli positions after commander killed

Hezbollah said it fired more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions on Wednesday in retaliation for a strike that killed a senior commander in Lebanon, the movement’s second such loss in recent
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A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on June 26, 2024. - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on June 26, the South Korean military said, according to the Yonhap news agency. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles, one fails

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles but one launch failed, South Korea’s military said Monday, a day after Pyongyang warned of “fatal consequences” following major joint exercises in the South. South
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A Taliban spokesman addresses a press conference in Kabul on June 29, 2024. - Afghanistan's Taliban authorities will meet international envoys on June 30, in Qatar for talks presented by the United Nations as a key step in an engagement process, but condemned by rights groups for sidelining Afghan women. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)

Taliban to press international community on Afghanistan sanctions

Taliban authorities said Monday they would press the international community over economic sanctions as they attended a UN-hosted summit in Doha with special representatives to Afghanistan for the first time. The two-day
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The photo taken on June 6, 2024 shows Corinne Wilson sticking a flyer in the hope of finding her adopted daughter Loulee's biological parents on a faded billboard with a slogan that reads "A daughter is like a slice of heaven, she'll take good care of you when you're old", which used to promote China's "one-child" policy in Dianjiang county, in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality. - Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents fearful of violating the country's "one-child" policy, which punished families for having additional children until its abolition in 2015. (Photo by Matthew WALSH / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'CHINA-ADOPTION-POPULATION, FOCUS' BY CELIA CAZALE AND MATTHEW WALSH

China’s adopted children return from overseas to seek their roots

At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag –- a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a
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