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  • The Extractor Press publicity film still

    The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core

    Iko Uwais directs and acts in the story of a band of elite soldiers who must rescue a group of researchers taken captive in the jungle
  • Shein company executives and employees pose for a photo at the listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd watched by other employees in company T-shirts

    Shein shares slide on fast-fashion retailer’s stock market debut

    Hong Kong flotation at $26bn by firm once valued at $100bn follows failure to list in US and UK
  • A swaddled newborn baby yawns in a bassinet at a maternity ward, another infant behind

    Singapore asks the $70,000 question: who wants to start a family?

    Sum of financial support from a baby’s birth until age 17 is the city-state’s offer to address low birthrate and reluctance of couples to have children
  • Ninety kākāpō chicks were officially added to the population of the critically endangered birds on 1 September, a record high

    Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

  • Two soldiers in hard hats make their along a tunnel by torchlight

    Nepal rescuers race to reach hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels

  • Emergency workers carry out disinfection work amid the ruins of a swept-away building

    China is concealing scale of flood disaster, say Tibet campaigners

  • A car drives through standing water on a road

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Warm Yellow Sea strengthens storms in South Korea

  • a side-by-side image of two women smiling

    Meet the gen Zers finding job opportunities teaching English abroad

    Some young people are teaching in countries like South Korea as education funding is gutted and recent grads face a tough job market in their own countries
  • A huge swath of mud in a mountain valley with buildings nearby.

    ‘The world needs to pay attention’: Nepalis and Tibetans in New York City respond to the Himalayan disaster

    Half the world away, a Himalayan diaspora reacts in sorrow and pitches in to help victims in their home countries
  • Survivors pulled from the mud in Nepal

    Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

  • A man photographs a crater at the site of a Russian missile impact in Ukraine.

    In South Korea, it is illegal to travel to dangerous countries. Journalists say it’s making their work impossible

  • A person looking flood devastation (JNA/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

    Today in Focus
    On the ground in decimated Nepal flood zone – The Latest

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  • Soldiers help a family disembark from a helicopter after they are rescued from an area affected by flash flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district

    At least 93,000 ‘in great need’ after Nepal-Tibet flash floods, says Red Cross

  • Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods

  • USS Abraham Lincoln to visit port in Thailand after more than 250 days at sea

  • Which countries have citizens killed or missing after Nepal-Tibet flash flood?

  • Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts resume after being halted by overflowing lake

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: More extreme rain in Japan and a tornado in France

  • Please don’t rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

  • Agency expected to seek warrant to officially arrest Yoonepa11829494 Police officers patrol at the Seoul Western District Court, Seoul, South Korea, 17 January 2025, as security is strengthened ahead of the anti-corruption agency's expected move the same day to file for another court warrant to officially arrest him to further investigate Yoon in custody. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

    South Korea to re-examine 310,000 missing person cases after fake record scandal

    Renewed scrutiny comes after police officer accused of falsifying records in order to close the cases of people who were later found dead
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