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South and central Asia

April 2025

  • A rhino walks down a road with houses on either side

    The age of extinction
    Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?

  • Vincent Oliver

    Stream team
    The Glassworker: Studio Ghibli’s legacy lives in Pakistan’s first hand-drawn feature

  • Guardian documentary - Atomic Secrets, by Zhanana Kurmasheva

    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

  • Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
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    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

  • Tulip Siddiq decries Bangladesh arrest warrant as ‘politically motivated smear’

  • UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

  • Arrest warrant issued in Bangladesh for UK MP Tulip Siddiq

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India

  • Elderly British couple ‘interrogated 29 times by Taliban’ since imprisonment

  • US extradites Canadian citizen to India for alleged role in deadly Mumbai attacks

  • Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs

  • ‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms

  • Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

  • Wife of Briton detained in India speaks of fears for his health

  • ‘Magical realism’: how a fake Hindu nation tried to take over Indigenous land in Bolivia

  • Broken and in the grip of civil war, can Myanmar rebuild after earthquake?

  • The people of Myanmar can’t seem to catch a break. Here’s my plea to the international community

    Thin Lei Win

  • The alternatives
    ‘I’ve seen people stop their cars to pick up litter’: how one city cleaned up its streets

  • EU urged to put human rights centre stage at first central Asia summit

  • US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island

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