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President Trump has begun a 3 day trip to Japan aimed at showcasing strong relations between the two countries – fuelled, he hopes, by a new agreement to reduce America’s multi-billion dollar trade deficit with Japan.

Pro-choice demonstrators have held a National Day of Action across America to protest against the growing number of States which are passing laws to restrict women’s access to abortion clinics.

Staci Fox is from the pro-choice organisation, Planned Parenthood.

Dr Yu Jie researches China’s economic diplomacy at Chatham House. Martin Jacques is a senior fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Just over a week ago Hamas fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, which responded with airstrikes. Gazans have been protesting against the economic blockade on every Friday for more than a year.

Prosecutors in Sweden have reopened an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.

Someone is diagnosed with dementia every three seconds and, according to a new report, nearly 60 percent of sufferers live in poorer countries.

The Dalits – the so-called “untouchables” – have for centuries been at the bottom of India’s brutal caste system.

President Trump has insisted that trade talks to end the stand-off between the US and China are continuing in a “very congenial manner”, despite having slapped new tariffs on Chinese goods worth £150 billion.

As many as 70 people have died trying to reach Europe after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on the way from Libya – the deadliest such accident since the start of the year.

We’ve travelled south to the capital of Karnataka, Bengaluru, better known perhaps by its old British Empire name of Bangalore.

A month before President Trump’s visit to the UK, his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in town, voicing his concerns about the potential role of the Chinese tech giant Huawei in Britain’s 5G network.

Two journalists who were jailed after reporting on Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims have been released. Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who work for the Reuters news agency, spent more than 500 days in prison.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from the Indian city of Varanasi – what used to be called Benares. It is the constituency of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, so just the place to begin our journey from north to the south of the country, covering what’s become a bitter battle for the soul of India – the…

We’ve been speaking to Jayati Ghosh, who is Professor of Economics at India’s elite Jawaharlal Nehru University. A well-known critic, she explained why she feels Narendra Modi’s government has failed. We then spoke to the BJP’s national spokesperson Nalin Kohli, and put it to him that the big failure of Mr Modi was unemployment.