Friends of two Australian tourists missing for more than a week in Mexico are looking to work with authorities in determining what happened to the men following a report that
A Malaysian military officer who was extradited to New Zealand after earlier leaving the country under the protection of diplomatic immunity pleaded guilty yesterday to indecent assault. Muhammad Rizalman Ismail faces
J apan’s whaling fleet will leave today for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proven that whales need to
World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset led the tributes to Jonah Lomu at a public memorial yesterday, saying the former All Blacks winger was a giant whose contribution to the sport
Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants and pubs that he patronizes in his small farming village.
A North Korean launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine appears to have failed, Yonhap News reported, underscoring the technological limitations of the isolated nation’s weapons program. The launch was
The Philippines on Saturday took delivery of two Korean-made fighter jets — the country’s first supersonic combat aircraft in a decade — as it strengthens its underfunded military amid an
Japan’s deputy defense minister met with the mayor of a southern island yesterday to seek his support for the planned deployment of hundreds of troops in the region including nearby disputed
Firefighters contained a large wildfire yesterday that had caused at least two deaths, 13 injuries and destroyed at least 16 homes near the southern Australian city of Adelaide, officials said. Two
A former South Korean university professor was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday for habitually beating his former pupil and forcing him to eat human feces and drink urine. Three
Officials from the two Koreas met yesterday at a border village to try to realize high-level talks as part of their agreements that defused a military standoff in August. The rivals
Police in northern Myanmar said yesterday they have ended efforts to find bodies in a jade mining landslide that killed more than 100 people and highlighted the perilous conditions created
The crew of a U.S. warplane that attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last month, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, misidentified the target, believing it to
Authorities increased security across Indonesia after a video appearing on social media threatened attacks against police and other targets, police and officials said yesterday. Security was raised at airports, the presidential
Three heavily armed rebels stormed an army camp in the Indian portion of Kashmir yesterday and were killed in a fierce gunbattle with soldiers, the army said. A civilian worker with
A prison official says Pakistan has have suspended the execution of the only paraplegic inmate on death row. Ahmad Nadeem, the chief of the prison in eastern city of Faisalabad,
Australia’s prime minister says there is no support among world leaders for the prospect of a U.S.-led army in Iraq and Syria to take back ground from Islamic State militants.
Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA’s supply chains. The unusual disclosure
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have demoted one of his top officials and sent him to a rural collective farm for reeducation, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers
A Thai military court yesterday indicted two foreigners accused of carrying out a deadly bombing at a shrine in Bangkok but questions hang over the case because of the attackers’
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