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Months before Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded retired Canadian mining executive John Ridsdel in the tropical jungles of the southern Philippines, they showed him pleading for life in a video with
The Philippine president said yesterday that Abu Sayyaf militants may have plotted to kill him and kidnap boxing star Manny Pacquiao, disclosing previously unknown details about an extremist group blamed
The fate of hundreds of asylum seekers being held in a detention center in Papua New Guinea was in limbo yesterday as the country’s prime minister announced the facility would
Animals at Bangkok’s zoo are being fed special frozen fruit pops. People are flocking to shopping malls just to soak up the air-conditioning. Authorities are telling people to stay out
The Philippine military came under increased pressure yesterday to rescue more than 20 foreign hostages after their Muslim extremist captors beheaded a Canadian man, but troops face a dilemma in
Indonesia’s president said yesterday that his government will host talks with Malaysia and the Philippines this week to boost maritime security following the kidnappings at sea of Indonesians by suspected
Bangladesh’s prime minister vowed to hunt down and prosecute assailants who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prime
Australia’s largest ever defense contract has gone to a French shipbuilder to produce a new generation of submarines, thrilling officials in Paris and inaugurating half a century of close defense
A same-sex American-Spanish couple won a high-profile custody battle yesterday against a surrogate mother in Thailand who gave birth to their child but then decided she wanted to keep the
A day after North Korea’s foreign minister told The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises
Kerry, who will accompany Obama in May when he becomes the third consecutive U.S. president to visit Vietnam, is headlining a gathering this week of big names assembled to again
The newly elected president of Laos, Bounnhang Vorachit, is visiting Vietnam to boost ties between the communist neighbors. Vorachit told his Vietnamese host, General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, that it was a
A teenager was charged with plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian Veteran's Day ceremony, police said yesterday, the second year in a row authorities say they have thwarted an
North Korea said yesterday that it successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine and warned of its growing ability to cut down its enemies with a “dagger of destruction.” South Korea couldn’t immediately
When the earthquake struck last year and thousands of tons of snow and ice and earth came crashing down the mountain, some feared the climbers might never return to Mount Everest. But despite back-to-back Everest disasters — the
Government officials, diplomats and ordinary people gathered at the remains of a fallen iconic tower in the Nepalese capital yesterday to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake that killed
The violence of the 7.8-magnitude earth quake left countless towns and villages across central Nepal in shambles. Almost one year later, in shambles they remain. The country has made almost no progress in rebuilding hundreds of thousands of homes, schools and government
China has asked Indonesia to extradite four Uighur men in exchange for returning a graft fugitive recently arrested in Shanghai, the top Indonesian security minister said yesterday. Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan said
A landmark commitment by one of the world’s largest producers of tissue and paper to stop cutting down Indonesia’s prized tropical forests is under renewed scrutiny as the company prepares
Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said on Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks
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