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• 'We don't care': A defiant China looks beyond Trump's America

  Chinese exporters tell the BBC if the US doesn't want their goods, "other countries have money" to buy them.

• Nuclear v renewables: The coal mining town caught in Australia's climate wars

  Some worry renewed debate over Australia's energy future is reopening the "climate wars" of years past.

• Xi's real test is not Trump's trade war

  The real battleground of the current trade war might be China's domestic economy

• Taiwan condemns Somalia travel ban

  Taiwanese are warned against traveling to Somalia or Somaliland for their own safety before the ban is lifted.

• Pakistan army chief's Kashmir remarks cause anger in India

  Days before a militant attack, the army chief made a speech seen as inflammatory, that has deepened mistrust.

• Pakistan claims 'credible intelligence' India is planning an imminent military strike

  India has accused Pakistan of supporting militants behind an attack in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists.

• Fourteen people killed in India hotel fire

  Videos showed hotel guests trying to escape by climbing onto the ledges outside their windows.

• Some charges against alleged mushroom lunch killer dropped

  Australian woman Erin Patterson is accused of killing three relatives with a toxic mushroom lunch.

• Hong Kong frees four pro-democracy lawmakers who completed jail terms

  They were part of the Hong Kong 47 who tried to run an unofficial election primary.

• Hope and fear as tourists trickle back to Kashmir town after attack

  The escalation in tensions means it could be years before tourism and businesses thrive again in Kashmir.

• India hunts suspects days after deadly Kashmir attack

  Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir demolish houses of alleged militants after last week's attack.

• Myanmar's army vowed a ceasefire after the earthquake. I saw them break it repeatedly

  The BBC's Quentin Sommerville witnesses daily attacks on a rebel-held area ravaged by the country's long-running civil war.

• Mount Fuji climber rescued twice after going back for lost phone

  He returned to Mount Fuji four days after his initial rescue in the hopes of finding his phone.

• Fifty years after the war, Vietnam faces a new US threat - tariffs

  The South East Asian country is on a path to prosperity. The US-China trade war could change that.

• Australia's last vote was all about Indigenous people - now they say it's 'silence'

  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton have had little to say on First Nations issues.