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"We think it isn't over. We will shift to other villages. Even if we go back to our village, there is no place to stay because everything is burnt," a villager told the Associated Press.

If results are to be found during the Biden-Putin chat, they will likely happen at the margins and far away from the big, irreconcilable disputes that continue to hobble bilateral ties.

Police filed a case against a couple that heads a Protestant church mission in Vietnam for "spreading dangerous infectious diseases," saying there were poor health protocols at their gatherings.

Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city, and a parking spot recently sold for $1.3 million. The disparity between the rich and the poor in the city is the worst wealth gap in 45 years, reports say.

The major cyclonic storm is gaining traction and heading to India's northeastern coast. It comes a week after Cyclone Tauktae blasted western India and impacted its COVID-19 relief operations as deaths from the virus surpassed 300,000 Monday.

Kazakhstan is truly committed to democratization and political reforms, which means we remain a trusted partner for the United States, the European Union and the wider international community.

U.N. special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener said a civil war "could happen" because citizens are frustrated, are engaging in more offensive actions and are being trained by ethnic armed groups.

"We will investigate and consider whether the party should be dissolved, and whether the perpetrators should be punished as traitors," Myanmar's military Union Election Commission chairman, Thein Soe, said of Suu Kyi's party.

"The best vaccine is the one that is available," said the Philippine's interior secretary.

In Asian countries where coronavirus seemed to be well under control, a sudden resurgence is leading to thousands in quarantine as businesses and schools shut down again.

As America looks forward to celebrating its independence on July 4, it will not step back from its commitment to liberating other countries from the grip of COVID-19.

"It is inhumane to be beaten and arrested. He never violated journalistic ethics. That is why I want to say that there is no justice in Myanmar," said the wife of arrested Myanmar journalist Min Nyo.

In Xinjiang, China, birthrates sharply decreased in two years, with 160,000 less babies being born between 2017 and 2018.

The latest data puts China closer to being overtaken by India as the most populous country, which is expected to happen by 2025.

The withdrawal of the Americans and risk of a possible civil war in Afghanistan could negatively impact important projects like the Belt and Road Initiative and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, threatening China's long-term interests in the region.

Beijing supports the North Koreans, whether or not they are compliant at any particular moment, because the Chinese believe that in the longer run, leaders in Pyongyang know their place.

Resources for COVID-19 patients in Nepal have become increasingly scarce as hospitals run out of available beds.

Right now is the time to ditch all platitudes and take bold, decisive action.

The international community must be prepared to stand with the wishes of all the people of Myanmar and stand against all human rights abuses in the country—not just those that the opposition leader chooses to recognize.

Myanmar's citizenry has come to expect freedom and the right to have a say in the way the country is governed.

For the sake of the many writers I grew to admire in Myanmar, I hope the country emerges unscathed to find a voice—and freedom—again.

Washington can be a very self-centered town.

Admiral John Aquilino, Biden's choice to lead U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific, told senators on Tuesday that combined allied forces in the Western Pacific would deter a Chinese attack against Taiwan.

The U.S. foreign policy establishment is effectively treating China as it treated the Soviet Union for over four decades: as an overriding, existential danger to American power that seeks to rewrite the rules as they've existed since World War II.

It's no longer acceptable to be complacent about the over-sexualization of Asian women in the media as a performance for the male gaze.

Clips, shared widely on social media, show China's top foreign affairs chief, Yang Jiechi, clash with Antony Blinken, his U.S. counterpart.

Is the killing of those Asian women the incident that turns the tide against anti-Asian racism?

The Japanese government said in the past that everything is "under control," but measurements from the ocean show that the reactors are still leaking radiation.

Bangladesh is reaping significant benefits from digitization.

Lasting peace is not possible if Azerbaijan and Turkey go unpunished.