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Cambodia fires missiles into Thailand

Travel warning for Thailand and Cambodia after gunfire and rockets leave at least 16 dead

Cambodia has accused Thailand of damaging a World Heritage-listed temple and dropping illegal bombs in the most serious armed conflict between the two nations in more than a decade.

  • Zach Hope and Nara Lon

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Cambodian Senate president Hun Sen, centre, and his son and prime minister Hun Manet in January.

From weed parlours to citizenship, the unexpected fallout from a jungle border bust-up

Border tensions have spilled into the back streets and upper echelons of Thai and Cambodian society. And this chain reaction of patriotism, intrigue and self-interest is not spent yet.

  • Zach Hope
Suon Roun’s mother, Em Heap, and brother Suon Eung inside their home at Kampenh village in Cambodia.

How a gunshot at dawn broke a mother’s heart, and left a prime minister fighting for her job

By first light on May 28, the soldiers had already stirred from their remote jungle beds. Some were making coffee. Others were pulling on uniforms. What happened next depends on who you talk to.

  • Zach Hope
The Preah Vihear temple complex in northern Cambodia.

Only 14 years ago, this magnificent temple was a place of death. Tensions are high again

It is so tranquil in the grounds of this sacred place that it is hard to imagine it any other way. But then a policeman points to the spot where his brother-in-law was blown up by a rocket.

  • Zach Hope
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during the welcoming ceremony prior to an informal dinner on the sidelines of BRICS Summit at Kazan City Hall in Kazan, Russia.

Unable to travel abroad, ‘pariah’ Putin has Xi, Modi come to him

The Russian president received the visitors at the historic Kazan Kremlin. He’s hosting a BRICS summit attended by 30 countries.

  • Valerie Hopkins and David Pierson
Detained on suspicion of spying: a pigeon that was captured eight months back is released at a vet hospital in Mumbai.

They thought it was a Chinese spy. It was just a pigeon that got lost

The pigeon’s ordeal began in May when it was captured near a port in Mumbai with two rings tied to its legs, carrying words that looked like Chinese.

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The British ship HMS Trent has been sent to the waters off Guyana as tensions rise after Venezula revived a claim over part of Guyana’s territory.

Maduro orders drills to counter ‘threat’ after British warship sent to Guyana

In national address, the Venezuelan president committed 6000 troops, air and naval forces to conduct operations near the territory he wants to take from Guyana.

  • Manuel Rueda
A woman sells fruit in front of a mural of the Venezuelan map with the Essequibo territory included and the words “All of Venezuela. Vote yes five time on December 3”, in Caracas.

Another land grab attempt is underway, this time on the other side of the world

Following massive offshore oil discoveries in the region and with elections coming, the Venezuelan president appears to have taken a leaf out of Putin’s playbook.

  • Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda
A Russian peacekeepers’s military helicopter transports a wounded person from a field hospital in Nagorno-Karabakh to the Armenian side on Tuesday.

By decree, Nagorno-Karabakh ‘will cease to exist’

After a nearly three-decade bid for independence, the unrecognised republic at the centre of a geopolitical fight is no more.

  • Avet Demourian and Rob Harris
Smoke rising after a fuel depot explosion near Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh.

Fuel explosion death toll leaps to 68 as Armenians filled up to flee

The death toll from an explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has sharply increased as hundreds suffered burns while filling up with fuel.

  • Maxim Rodionov

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