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East Lorengau Refugee Transit Center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

Refugees attempted suicide after Australia's election, activists say

Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is seen after the meeting with coalition leaders a day after the presidential election on April 18, 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Joko Widodo secures second term as Indonesia's president

Armed police officers stand guard outside the Al Noor mosque during Friday prayers in Christchurch on May 3, 2019, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

Christchurch mosque shooter faces terrorism charge

PATNA, INDIA - MARCH 3: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters seen during Sankalp Rally at Gandhi Maidan on March 3, 2019 in Patna, India. Modi, while sounding the poll bugle for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, also paid tribute to the CRPF men killed in Pulwama and said the nation stands with its jawans. The rally comes exactly a month after the Congress held the first-of-its-kind Jan Akanksha Rally at the same venue. The public meeting holds significance because Modi and Kumar are sharing the stage for the first time after 2010. (Photo by Parwaz Khan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

India's election has left the country more divided than ever

Same-sex marriage supporters cheer outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, May 17, 2019 after Taiwan's legislature has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage in a first for Asia. The vote Friday allows same-sex couples full legal marriage rights, including in areas such as taxes, insurance and child custody. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan furious after China attempts to take credit for LGBT marriage win

The exterior of the Koryo restaurant Hanoi is seen on March 1.

The North Korean restaurant accused by a think tank of using software sales to bypass sanctions

Same-sex marriage supporters cheer outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 17, 2019 after Taiwan's legislature passed a law allowing same-sex marriage.

Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage in historic first for Asia

Plastic found on Cocos (Keeling) Island.

414 million pieces of plastic found on remote Australian islands: Study

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - 1994: Bob Hawke Prime Minister of Australia (1983 - 1991) at Hawke memoirs launch in 1994 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Patrick Riviere/Getty Images)

Bob Hawke, former Australian prime minister, dead at 89

Environmental activists rally outside the Philippine Senate in Manila on September 9, 2015 to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped back to Canada and to push for the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment which prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries. Philippine officials said in July, 2015 that tonnes of imported Canadian rubbish had been sent to a northern Philippines landfill, ending a two-year standoff with activists who called for the waste to be returned to Canada. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)

Philippines recalls ambassador to Canada over trash row

China formally arrests two Canadians on national security grounds

Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations at the National Convention Center in Beijing on May 15, 2019. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)

No civilization is superior, says China's Xi as US trade war heats up

A rickshaw driver passes campaign posters in front of Baseco Elementary School in Manila on May 13, 2019. - Filipinos headed to the polls on May 13 in a vote that is expected to strengthen President Rodrigo Duterte's grip on power, opening the way for him to deliver on pledges to restore the death penalty and rewrite the constitution. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP) (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Duterte's children elected as Philippines President consolidates power in midterms

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons just days after the Christchurch attacks

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern 'does not understand' why US has failed to toughen gun laws

A Muslim man stands in front of the Jumha mosque after a mob attack in Minuwangoda on May 14, 2019. - A Sri Lankan province north of the capital was under indefinite curfew after the first death in anti-Muslim riots in the wake of the Easter terror attacks, police said. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP) (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)

One dead as Sri Lanka town gripped by another bout of anti-Muslim violence

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