Myanmar | Pope demands rights for all, omits ‘Rohingya’

Pope Francis insisted yesterday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been

Japan | Authorities on alert as boats thought to be from North Korea found

Japan is stepping up patrols and urging local authorities and fishermen to be on the alert after several boats thought to be from North Korea, some

Bali volcano spits ash 4 km in the sky, airport closed

A volcano with a deadly history continued to erupt yesterday on Bali, one of the world’s most popular resort islands, spitting ash 4,000 meters high and stranding tens of

Indonesia | Volcano forces mass evacuation, shuts Bali airport

Indonesian authorities ordered a mass evacuation of people yesterday from an expanded danger zone around an erupting volcano on Bali that has forced the island’s international airport to close,

Pope’s trip to Myanmar, Bangladesh turns on one word: Rohingya

Pope Francis arrived yesterday on a visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh to encourage their tiny Catholic communities and reach out to some of Asia’s most peripheral and

Vietnam | Court sentences activist to seven years in prison

A court in central Vietnam yesterday sentenced an activist to seven years in prison for producing online videos and interviews related to an environmental disaster that instigated

Pope’s South Asia trip brings hope to tiny Catholic groups

Pope Francis today begins a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh. While attention will focus on how Francis addresses the Rohingya Muslim crisis, the trip also holds

India | Families of terror victims angry at militant’s release

As the Indian city of Mumbai commemorated the 2008 terror attacks that left 168 people dead, relatives of the victims said Sunday that they’re angry Pakistan

Indonesia | Bali volcano dusts resorts in ash; Lombok airport closes

A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali has rumbled to life with eruptions that dusted nearby resorts and villages with ash and forced the closure of

Japan protests San Francisco’s ‘sex slave’ statue decision

Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco’s decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese

Ships, aircraft search for three US sailors missing in crash

U.S. and Japanese ships and aircraft searched in the Philippine Sea yesterday for three sailors missing since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier. Eight

Myanmar | UN envoy says sexual attacks against Rohingya may be war crimes

Widespread atrocities against Rohingya Muslim women and girls have been orchestrated and perpetrated by Myanmar’s military and may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,

Papua New Guinea | Officials pressure refugees to leave camp

Papua New Guinea authorities yesterday removed dozens of asylum seekers and ratcheted up pressure on more than 300 others to abandon a decommissioned immigration camp, where refugees

Korean Peninsula | Cold War drama caught on video as soldier escapes to the South

It’s 3:11 p.m. on a cold, gray day on the North Korean side of the most heavily armed border in the world, and a lone soldier

Japan | US Navy plane with 11 crashes into Pacific; eight survived

Eight people aboard a Navy plane that crashed yesterday in the Pacific were recovered in good condition and a search continues for three other missing personnel, the

Australia | Victoria state reaches brink of legalizing euthanasia

An Australian state parliament yesterday stepped closer to passing a voluntary euthanasia bill, 20 years after the country repealed the world’s first mercy- killing law for the

The Buzz | Philippines to extradite priest accused of molesting US boys

The Philippine government is preparing to extradite to the United States a recently arrested Filipino Catholic priest who faces charges of sexually molesting two boys in North Dakota churches

Japan | Woman confessed to putting babies in concrete in 90s

A Japanese woman was arrested yesterday after police say she confessed to putting four newborns in concrete-filled buckets two decades ago and having been filled with guilt

Ex-officials accused of corruption in Manila train contract

The Philippine government filed complaints yesterday with an anti-graft office accusing many Cabinet officials in the previous administration of corruption in a maintenance contract for a Manila

Analysis | US terror list more symbolism than substance

As North Korea marches toward nuclear mastery, President Donald Trump slaps the country back on an American blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism. But is it

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