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The Philippines has said it is sending a new vessel to “immediately take over” from a coast guard ship that returned to port on Sunday from a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. Manila said blocking and ramming by…

A United Nations official has said the Taliban’s ban on hearing women’s voices and seeing women’s faces in public offers “a distressing vision” for Afghanistan. Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN’s mission in the country, said the Taliban’s first formal…