World news | The Guardian2d ago
UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/14/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaleconomy #UnitedNations #Trumptariffs #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #USpolitics #Mauritius #Worldnews #Economics #Business #Tariffs #Myanmar #Unctad #USnews #Africa #Laos
UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to US

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World news | The Guardian5d ago
Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/weather-tracker-early-heatwave-sweeps-northern-india #SouthandcentralAsia #Environment #Worldnews #Africa #India #Mali
Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India

Temperatures exceeding 40C trigger deadly thunderstorms, as Mali agency issues hot weather warning

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World news | The Guardian6d ago
Canadian citizen extradited to India for alleged role in deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/mumbai-attacks-tahawwur-hussain-rana #Mumbaiterrorattacks #SouthandcentralAsia #Worldnews #Pakistan #Americas #Canada #Mumbai #India #Law
US extradites Canadian citizen to India for alleged role in deadly Mumbai attacks

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, to stand trial for plotting multiday slaughter carried out by 10 Islamist gunmen

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Technology | The Guardian US6d ago
Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/apple-flying-iphones-india-us-avoid-trump-tariffs #Manufacturingsector #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaleconomy #Trumptariffs #AsiaPacific #Technology #Economics #Worldnews #Business #Foxconn #Tariffs #USnews #Apple #India #China
Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs

Tech firm has reportedly flown 600 tonnes of handsets from Indian factories as Chinese goods face huge tariffs

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World news | The GuardianApr 3
Asian countries riven by war and disaster face some of steepest Trump tariffs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-us-administration-countries-biggest-rates-china-myanmar-mandalay #Trumpadministration #SouthandcentralAsia #Internationaltrade #USforeignpolicy #Trumptariffs #AsiaPacific #USpolitics #Worldnews #Economics #Cambodia #Business #Myanmar #Tariffs #Lesotho #USnews #Africa #China
Asian countries riven by war and disaster face some of steepest Trump tariffs

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos hit with rates over 40% as experts say the real target is China

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US news | The GuardianApr 2
‘Hope in my heart’: displaced Afghans in limbo as White House freezes refugee programs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/02/afghan-refugees-trump #Trumpadministration #SouthandcentralAsia #USimmigration #Afghanistan #USpolitics #Worldnews #Refugees #Pakistan #USnews #Texas
‘Hope in my heart’: displaced Afghans in limbo as White House freezes refugee programs

Texas volunteers had prepared welcome for family fleeing Taliban now stranded in Pakistan in fear of being deported

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 25
‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/25/htein-lin-artist-myanmar-polticial-detainees-prison-paintings-ikon-gallery #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaldevelopment #AungSanSuuKyi #Artanddesign #Humanrights #Exhibitions #Birmingham #Worldnews #Painting #Videoart #Prisons #Myanmar #Protest #Culture #UKnews #Art
‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regime

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Technology | The Guardian USMar 20
X sues Modi's government over content removal in new India censorship fight https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/x-india-censorship-lawsuit-modi-musk #SouthandcentralAsia #Censorship #Technology #Worldnews #ElonMusk #India #X
X sues Modi's government over content removal in new India censorship fight

Elon Musk’s company is arguing against the government’s expanded powers to allow easier removal of online content

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World news | The GuardianMar 6
World Food Programme halves food rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/06/world-food-programme-food-rations-rohingya-bangladesh #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaldevelopment #Foodpoverty #Bangladesh #Worldnews #Rohingya #Refugees #Society #Poverty #Africa #Hunger #Kenya #Aid
World Food Programme halves food rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh

Decision made after attempts to raise more funds had been unsuccessful, agency tells authorities

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Lifestyle | The Guardian USMar 2
An audience with the ‘dragon king’ of Bhutan, from 1984 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/02/an-audience-with-the-dragon-king-of-bhutan-from-1984 #SouthandcentralAsia #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #Bhutan
An audience with the ‘dragon king’ of Bhutan, from 1984

A meeting with the youngest ruler of the world’s most impenetrable country resulted in some very modern observations

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