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The bizarre story illustrates a wider set of concerns as the Kazakh government claims to have arrested nearly 8,000 people in the wake of a week of chaos in Kazakhstan. 

The recent frenzy over tennis player Novak Djokovic has helped highlight the cruel detention conditions of refugees in Australia.

Japan is showing signs of a “sixth wave” of coronavirus infections as the highly contagious Omicron variant tears through the community. 

Seeking control, the Kazakh government shut down the internet. But the long-term effects may only necessitate continued crackdowns.

Although India is better prepared than it was last year, hospitals may not be able to cope as many medical personnel have fallen ill.

A conversation about the future of reds and whites.

"No one is above these rules," Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

New legislation aims to clean up India’s hitherto unregulated assisted reproductive tech and surrogacy industry, but activists say the laws are deficient in many respects.

China’s largest-scale lockdown since 2020 has residents complaining about food shortages and harsh restrictions.

Photographs of prominent Muslim women, several of them critics of Indian PM Narendra Modi, were displayed in a fake online auction.

Criminalizing asylum seekers and stigmatizing immigration is only worsening Japan’s demographic crisis.

The country has fully vaccinated 64 percent of its 1.3 billion population.