Australia-Mexico | Mexican authorities search for 2 missing Australian tourists after report men’s van found

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

New Zealand | Malaysian diplomat pleads guilty to indecent assault

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

Japan | Whaling fleet set to leave for Antarctic

  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

New Zealand | Thousands crowd Eden Park for Jonah Lomu memorial

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

In S. Korea, a town of Kims – and an unusual shared history

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.

North Korea | Launch of missile from sub may have failed

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

Philippines gets 1st fighter jets in a decade amid sea feud

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 | Gov’t plans to deploy troops near disputed islands

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

Australia | Wildfire kills at least 2 and injures 13 others

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

South Korea Professor gets 12 years for feeding ex-pupil feces

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

Koreas | North, South hold border talks to discuss improved ties

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

Myanmar | Search ends for victims of jade mining landslide

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

Afghanistan | Doctors Without Borders hospital said to be misidentified before being bombed

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

Indonesia | Authorities increase security after Islamist video calls for terror attack

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

India | Soldiers kill 3 rebels who attack army camp in Kashmir

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

Briefs | Pakistan – Prison suspends execution of paraplegic inmate

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 | PM talks down prospect of US-led army in Syria

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.

Slavery | Nestle confirms labor abuse among its Thai seafood suppliers

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 Korea | Seoul: Kim Jong Un demotes top official

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

Thailand | Court indicts 2 for deadly Bangkok bombing

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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