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India’s Supreme Court has put a controversial colonial-era sedition law on hold that critics say is used to stifle dissent.

Sri Lanka crisis: Ex-PM flees to naval base as arson attacks spread

By Aparna Alluri & Simon Fraser BBC News Security forces are deployed across Sri Lanka with orders to shoot looters

By Simon Fraser BBC News MAGE SSri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned amid mass protests at the government’s

By Frances Mao & Tiffany Wertheimer BBC News The son of a former dictator of the Philippines has taken an

When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took the stage in October last year in Manila, he was expected to announce his

By Jean Mackenzie BBC Seoul correspondent Kim Jong-un is testing North Korea’s weapons with renewed urgency, as South Korea

Former security chief John Lee Ka-chiu has been elected as Hong Kong’s next leader, in what is widely seen as

Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic More than 4.7 million people in India – nearly 10 times higher than

By Nick Marsh BBC News, Colombo “Look: the Muslims are here, the Hindus are here, the Catholics are here. All

Soutik Biswas India correspondent Russia-Ukraine war Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, announced last week that it