Former Apple Daily reporter Tammy Cheung and her colleagues were in tears after hearing a Hong Kong court sentence their ex-boss, pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, to 20 years in jail.
US Vice President JD Vance is due to kick-off a visit to Armenia on Monday before travelling to Azerbaijan the next day, US officials said, as Washington seeks to consolidate a US-brokered peace process between the neighbours.
Sydney police deployed pepper spray and scuffled with protesters on Monday as a rally against a visit to Australia by Israel's President Isaac Herzog turned violent.
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Economy
Japanese stocks surged to a record high Monday following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's election win, while healthy gains across the rest of Asia and Europe tracked a rally on Wall Street.
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold reflected on a "special journey" through adversity and setbacks as he celebrated Sunday's 29-13 Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.
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Japanese stocks soared to record highs Monday after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's election triumph, but experts warned that the country's first woman leader could struggle to keep both voters and markets happy.
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Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny on Sunday turned the Super Bowl into a giant street party, emphasizing unity over division in his groundbreaking Spanish-language set -- but still earning President Donald Trump's scorn.
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The Seattle Seahawks coasted to Super Bowl glory Sunday, routing the New England Patriots 29-13 as Sam Darnold sealed his journey from flop quarterback to conqueror of the NFL's biggest prize.
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Economy
Abandoned for months on their fishing boat off West Africa, Indonesian sailor Surono and his shipmates face a dilemma: return home without almost a year's wages or stay on the docked vessel.
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RECENT NEWS
Japanese stocks surged to a record high Monday following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's historic election win, while healthy gains across the rest of Asia tracked a rally on Wall Street.
A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on Monday following his high-profile national security trial that rights groups and Western nations have condemned as a symbol of the city's shrivelling press freedoms.
Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny on Sunday turned the Super Bowl into a giant street party, delivering his hits on one of the world's biggest stages -- and becoming the first-ever halftime show headliner to sing only in Spanish.
Three opposition figures close to Venezuela's Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado were freed from jail Sunday, a month after authorities began releasing political prisoners following the ouster of leader Nicolas Maduro.
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Politics
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi savoured an election landslide Monday, with her ruling party projected to have won a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house for the first time in its history.
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Israel's President Isaac Herzog said Monday people of all faiths will "overcome this evil" as he laid a wreath to commemorate victims of a shooting that killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Voters in Bangladesh elect a new government on February 12, but analysts warn their choice is threatened by a coordinated surge of disinformation, much of which originates from neighbouring India.
Arguments are set to begin Monday in a landmark US trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to lead to addiction in children.
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