Southeast Asia leaders urge tough stance on N. Korea

Southeast Asian leaders and Australia’s prime minister yesterday called on North Korea to end its nuclear program and urged U.N. countries to fully implement sanctions against the country. Leaders

Philippines | Duterte can’t evade accountability by quitting court

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said Duterte did not decide to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the international tribunal, to escape accountability but to

Pakistan | School dance, anyone? Punjabi lawmakers seek ban

Pakistani lawmakers in a provincial assembly have voted in favor of a ban on dance parties at schools and other educational institutions, saying they promote Western

Nepal | Authorities struggle to identify plane crash survivors

Authorities in Nepal are struggling to identify the survivors of a deadly plane crash earlier this week, with many of the injured badly burned,

Philippines | Duterte withdrawing country from International Criminal Court

President Rodrigo Duterte announced yesterday that the Philippines is withdrawing its ratification of a treaty that created the International Criminal Court, where he is facing

South Korea | Another ex-president questioned in corruption probe

Prosecutors yesterday were questioning South Korea’s conservative former President Lee Myung- bak over corruption allegations, making him the latest of the country’s leaders entangled in scandal. The

Myanmar | Gov’t says UN findings on human rights lack credibility

Myanmar’s government yesterday rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes

Hawaii | Officials deny request for phone logs related to false alert

Hawaii officials have repeatedly pointed to a low-level state employee and a breakdown in his agency’s leadership as the main cause for a January missile alert that

Japan | Abe says North Korea must take real steps to denuclearization

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with South Korea’s intelligence chief yesterday, and said that while he welcomes any dialogue with North Korea regarding the country’s denuclearization,

Nepal | Plane crashes and catches fire in Kathmandu, kills at least 50

A plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing and erupting in flames as it landed yesterday in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital,

US officials: North Korea will face no more conditions for talks

Trump administration officials say there will be no more conditions imposed on North Korea before a first-ever meeting of the two nation’s leaders beyond the

Bangladesh | Court grants bail to former leader Khaleda Zia

Bangladesh’s High Court yesterday granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years on a corruption

Search is on for the best summit site for Trump, Kim

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev

Rohingya living in ‘no man’s land’ insist they will stay

From their home, a tent hastily erected in a grassy field, the young Muslim Rohingya couple can see the village they left behind last year, fleeing attacks

East Timor | People give hero’s welcome to border talks negotiator

Thousands of East Timorese lined the road to the capital’s international airport yesterday to cheer returning independence hero Xanana Gusmao for leading negotiations that settled the sea

Japan | 7th anniversary of tsunami that killed 18,000 marked

They bowed their heads, hands clasped or palms firmly pressed together. They stood in grassy areas or roadsides overlooking the choppy sea. In Japan’s capital, they lit

Sri Lanka | Buddhist mobs sweep through Muslim neighborhoods

Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emergency

South China Sea | Chinese general says Beijing needs to arm disputed islands

China needs to build defensive structures on islands in the South China Sea to display its claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire crucial waterway, a leading

S. Korea leader sees more obstacles ahead to disarm Pyongyang

South Korea’s president said yesterday that many “critical moments” still lie ahead to end the nuclear crisis despite North Korea’s recent outreach to Seoul and Washington.

Japan | Gov’t penalizes several cryptocurrency exchanges after hack

The Japanese government is slapping penalties on several cryptocurrency exchanges in the country, after 58 billion yen (USD530 million) of virtual coins were lost earlier this

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