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South Korea yesterday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff
South Korea’s president yesterday urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test with the strongest possible international sanctions. Park Geun-hye’s comments came as Seoul said
Vietnam has dismissed China’s accounts of its test flights to an island in disputed waters, saying it received no prior information as claimed by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. China Foreign
A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan yesterday killed 15 people, mainly police who had gathered to escort health workers, who have been repeatedly targeted in
The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast,
A woman was in stable condition at a hospital after she was attacked by a crocodile yesterday on Australia’s northwest coast, officials said. The woman, in her 70s, was attacked in
Samsung Electronics reached a partial agreement on workplace safety with sickened workers and their families, nearly a decade after the death of a 22-year-old chip worker from leukemia galvanized concern
More than 80 whales have washed ashore on India’s southern coast, officials said yesterday. The short-finned pilot whales began washing up on beaches Monday evening, said M. Ravi Kumar, the top
The U.S. House of Representatives House pushed ahead on legislation that seeks to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test by expanding sanctions on Pyongyang, a move with strong
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose pro-democracy party will take over power in Myanmar from a pro-military government in coming months, yesterday participated for the first time in official talks to
North Korea’s nuclear test has provoked global outrage, a push for sanctions, even fear. But Kim Jong Un’s decision to conduct it has also handed a gift of sorts to
The blazes had scorched more than 71,150 hectares of farms and woodland south of Perth, the Western Australia state capital, since they were sparked by lightning strikes last Wednesday, the
A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea yesterday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepened between its ally Seoul
More than a million Filipino Roman Catholic devotees jammed Manila’s streets Saturday for an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Christ that was held under extra heavy security following
Pakistan will present a list of Taliban willing to negotiate with Kabul at a four-nation meeting this week aimed at reviving the Afghan peace process, an Afghan official said yesterday.
A pair of Chinese civilian jet airliners landed at a newly created island in a disputed section of the South China Sea in a test to see whether its airstrip
Trucks rumbled across the Chinese-North Korean border yesterday in a sign that trade was continuing despite Beijing’s anger over the North’s avowed hydrogen bomb test, which could spark economic retaliation
In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea yesterday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with
It’s a single image released by an enormous propaganda apparatus, showing a note handwritten by a dictator. And it contains a telling clue to the mindset behind North Korea’s surprise
China sees North Korea’s claim to have conducted its first hydrogen bomb test as yet another act of defiance, and will likely retaliate by joining tougher United Nations sanctions and
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