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Men perform the last rites for a deceased relative in a disused granite quarry repurposed to cremate COVID victims in Bengaluru [File: Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images]

India hits new grim record with 3,689 COVID-19 deaths in one day

Healthcare systems are overwhelmed and a shortage of medical oxygen has emerged as the most serious challenge.

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Tourists from 49 countries in North America, Europe and Asia can now apply for a Saudi visa for $120 [File: Amel Pain/EPA]

Travelling the Middle East will be the easiest it’s ever been

Relaxed visa requirements, shifting politics, and new transport connections promise to draw more visitors to the region.

NASA astronauts inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico. [Handou: Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Photos: ISS astronauts splash down off Florida on SpaceX craft

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European External Action Service Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora, left, and Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria [EU Delegation in Vienna/Handout/Reuters]

US sanctions on oil, banks expected to be lifted: Iran negotiator

Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists demonstrate against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian territories [File: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

What is happening in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah?

Villagers stand behind a lockdown barrier to ask for food donations after their village has been closed for more than two weeks inside a red zone with strict lockdown measures during the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 30, 2021 [Cindy Liu/Reuters]

Mounting desperation in Cambodia amid COVID lockdown

The skies above Kabul and nearby Bagram airbase were buzzing with more US helicopter activity than usual as the pullout gears up [File: Reuters]

Afghan retreat: US starts withdrawing from its longest war

A sign in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia that depicts members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front wanted by the Ethiopian police [File: Eduardo Soteras/AFP]

Ethiopia to designate TPLF, OLF-Shene as ‘terror’ groups

North Korea's foreign ministry has accused Biden of insulting its leader Kim Jong Un, saying the US 'will get hurt' if it provokes Pyongyang [KCNA via Reuters]

North Korea dismisses ‘spurious’ US diplomacy: State media

The country has all but stamped out community infections after closing its borders to non-citizens in March 2020, recording just 29,800 cases and 910 deaths [File: Trevor Collens/AFP]

Australia’s Perth dodges new lockdown, but imposes restrictions


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Tourists from 49 countries in North America, Europe and Asia can now apply for a Saudi visa for $120 [File: Amel Pain/EPA]

Travelling the Middle East will be the easiest it’s ever been

NASA astronauts inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico. [Handou: Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Photos: ISS astronauts splash down off Florida on SpaceX craft

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European External Action Service Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora, left, and Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria [EU Delegation in Vienna/Handout/Reuters]

US sanctions on oil, banks expected to be lifted: Iran negotiator

Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists demonstrate against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian territories [File: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

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Villagers stand behind a lockdown barrier to ask for food donations after their village has been closed for more than two weeks inside a red zone with strict lockdown measures during the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 30, 2021 [Cindy Liu/Reuters]

Mounting desperation in Cambodia amid COVID lockdown

The skies above Kabul and nearby Bagram airbase were buzzing with more US helicopter activity than usual as the pullout gears up [File: Reuters]

Afghan retreat: US starts withdrawing from its longest war

A sign in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia that depicts members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front wanted by the Ethiopian police [File: Eduardo Soteras/AFP]

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North Korea's foreign ministry has accused Biden of insulting its leader Kim Jong Un, saying the US 'will get hurt' if it provokes Pyongyang [KCNA via Reuters]

North Korea dismisses ‘spurious’ US diplomacy: State media

The country has all but stamped out community infections after closing its borders to non-citizens in March 2020, recording just 29,800 cases and 910 deaths [File: Trevor Collens/AFP]

Australia’s Perth dodges new lockdown, but imposes restrictions

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The country has all but stamped out community infections after closing its borders to non-citizens in March 2020, recording just 29,800 cases and 910 deaths [File: Trevor Collens/AFP]

Australia’s Perth dodges new lockdown, but imposes restrictions

Some 9,000 Australians in India are registered as wanting to return, including 650 listed as 'vulnerable' [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo]

Australia bans, criminalises arrivals from COVID-hit India

There is growing alarm at the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in India [File: Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]

US to restrict travel from India to curb COVID-19 spread

A pair of 'soiled undies' before and after being buried in the ground [Courtesy of Oliver Knox]

Why some people are soiling their underwear to help the earth

Soldiers from the Australian Army's 3rd Brigade participate in an amphibious assault landing exercises between Australia and the United States in 2017 [File: Jason Reed/Reuters]

Australia to upgrade military bases, expand war games with US

A teacher shows students a flash card while describing measures to take when sexual harassment occurs, during a class in Shadabad Girls Elementary School in Gohram Panhwar in Johi, Pakistan [File: Reuters/Akhtar Soomro]

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Dhaka's streets wear a deserted look following a lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP]

Bangladesh extends coronavirus lockdown for another week

Protesters set a motorcycle on fire during a clash with police as they demonstrated against Modi's visit in Dhaka on March 26, 2021 [File: Munir Uz zaman/AFP]

Bangladesh cracks down on Islamist group after anti-Modi protests

Workers were protesting over unpaid wages, working hours and alleged discrimination [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]

At least 5 shot dead by police at Bangladesh power plant protests

Migrant people and workers leave Dhaka in speedboats before the countrywide lockdown, at Mawa ferry port in Munshiganj [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Bangladesh COVID shutdown triggers exodus from capital Dhaka

A few vehicles ply on a usually clogged street during a coronavirus lockdown in Dhaka last week [Al-emrun Garjon/AP]

Bangladesh to impose week-long air travel ban after COVID surge

Bangladeshi police make a rickshaw puller wear a mask as they enforce a lockdown in Dhaka [Al-emrun Garjon/AP]

Bangladesh protest over COVID curbs turns violent, three shot

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India shows why we will all need COVID vaccine booster shots

COVID mutations could spin out of control if situations like that in India continue to occur.

Astronauts leave ISS, begin return to Earth on SpaceX craft

The astronauts spent more than 160 days in space and their Crew Dragon spacecraft should return on Sunday.

With the flight back to Earth expected to take six and a half hours, the crew was scheduled to splash down in the dark of night early on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, near Panama City, Florida [NASA via AFP]

India COVID crisis: ‘We tried 15 hospitals before my mother died’

Despite having money to pay for treatment, one family struggled to find a hospital bed for their 61-year-old mother.

Patients suffering from COVID-19 receive treatment at the emergency ward of a hospital in New Delhi, India, on April 29, 2021 [Reuters/Danish Siddiqui]

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Bomb blasts, protests as Myanmar enters fourth month under coup

Candle-lit vigils and flash protests continue overnight as security forces have reportedly detained more civilians.

The power grab triggered an enormous uprising which authorities have tried to quell with deadly force and live ammunition [Dawei Watch/AFP]

‘Dreamers’ urge compassion for families, children at US border

Amid increase in migration at US-Mexico border, DACA recipients relive their own journeys to US decades ago.

Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants have tried to cross the US southern border with Mexico in recent months in search of protection [File: Allison Dinner/Reuters]

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