Philippines | US to launch new program to fight extremism

U.S. and Philippine officials yesterday were discussing a new program to thwart efforts by Muslim extremists to recruit and mobilize followers in the country’s south after a

India Officials looking to recover bodies on Himalayan mountain

Indian officials were working on a plan yesterday to retrieve five bodies believed to be mountaineers from a team of international climbers that went missing on a notoriously dangerous

North Korea | Kim’s sister back in public eye at mass games

The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a public event in Pyongyang for the first time in more than 50 days,

Australia | Cardinal set to appeal child sex convictions

The most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse will ask an Australian appeals court today to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys

North Korea | Top official reappears days after purge report

A senior North Korean official who had been reported as being purged over the failed nuclear summit with Washington was shown in state media yesterday enjoying

Samsung vows to keep up investment as trade war raises risks

Samsung Electronics’ Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong has vowed to keep up robust investments in key businesses as South Korea’s leading company weathers slowing demand and the

Troubled waters | China vows military action if Taiwan, South China Sea claims opposed

China’s defense minister warned yesterday that its military will “resolutely take action” to defend Beijing’s claims over self-ruled Taiwan and disputed South China Sea waters.

Koreas | US acting defense chief says major drills with South still on hold

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said yesterday that so far he sees no need to restore large-scale military exercises with South Korea that have been curtailed

Seven dead, 21 missing after South Korean tour boat sinks in Hungary

Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest yesterday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank in a matter

Thailand | Junta chief gives thumbs-up to Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’

The late British writer and social critic George Orwell appears to be back in the good graces of Thailand’s military ruler after a spell in the doghouse five

Elections Challenge to Indonesia vote makes big claims, weak on proof

The court challenge to Indonesia’s presidential election from the losing candidate claims that the police, intelligence agency and other state institutions were biased in favor

Australia | Man jailed to 10 years over British backpacker rape

An Australian man who kidnapped and repeatedly raped a British backpacker during a monthlong ordeal in the country’s Outback has been jailed for 10 years.

Myanmar | Court issues arrest warrant for nationalist Buddhist monk

A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a Buddhist monk known for incendiary comments about the country’s Muslim minority and for criticism of the

Report | UN reveals rights abuse at thriving markets in North Korea

North Koreans working in hundreds of thriving markets that sprung up with the failure of the country’s public system for distributing basic goods are often abused and

Japan | Knife-wielding man attacks schoolgirls, killing two

A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls near a school bus parked at a bus

Indonesia | Police allege plot to kill top officials

Four top Indonesian officials, including two Cabinet ministers and the national spy chief, were targeted for assassination as part of a plot possibly linked to

Australia | Cardinal won’t fight sentence if he loses appeal

Disgraced Australian Catholic cardinal George Pell will not fight for a reduced jail sentence if he fails in his appeal of his conviction for molesting two

North Korea calls Bolton ‘war monger’ over missile comment

North Korea yesterday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a “war monger” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as

Nepal on high alert for general strike after explosions

Security forces in Nepal were on high alert yesterday amid a general strike called by an outlawed communist group suspected in a series of explosions that killed four

Trump defends Kim, downplays missile threat

In an apparent contradiction of his national security adviser, President Donald Trump on yesterday downplayed recent North Korean missile tests, tweeting from Tokyo that they’re

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