Joko Widodo may have won a second term as president, but Indonesian democracy is in a parlous state.

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The Chinese state newspaper's editorial wrote approvingly of the Australian Prime Minister but criticised Peter Dutton, who it said "represents a clique of alt-right forces".

Nearly 8 million people were advised to evacuate during the deluge and 200,000 people were without power.

The Chinese President has drawn the attention of protesters in Hong Kong with his strong warning to separatists.

Gunmen dressed in soccer uniforms halted an express bus on a main highway in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state and kidnapped 31 people, most of them firefighters, authorities say.

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An increase in sexually transmitted diseases the highest numbers reported in decades has been linked to the prevalence of online dating.

President Donald Trump is set to impose economic sanctions on Turkey as early as this week for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over the NATO-ally.

Iranians, they're just like us: they too have watched Avengers: Endgame.

Indonesia's foreign ministry has weighed in to the recycling issue, saying the country should not have to deal with waste from countries such as Australia.

The one-time financier and friend of rich and famous was charged this week with trafficking girls. This week on Please Explain: how powerful men avoid accountability.

A British naval vessel escorting an oil tanker has aimed its guns at Iranian boats.

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In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the states told China to stop arbitrary incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslims minorities.

Masses of tangled plastic litter and packets of snacks were retrieved from the animals' stomachs, with the heaviest amount weighing 4.3 kilograms.

What Kim Darroch lacked, in the face of the attacks from Trump, was a strong endorsement from the man now favoured to be prime minister, Boris Johnson.

A couple caught up in one of the worst embryo-related mix-ups in US history has filed a lawsuit against the fertility clinic at the centre of the debacle.

After a 57-year-old was declared missing, attention gradually turned to his only companions - 18 dogs.

The activists have seized on the G20 summit of world leaders in Japan this week to appeal for the former British colony's plight to be put on the agenda.