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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’
An explosion yesterday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. The Yasukuni shrine, which
The Australian government remained committed to resettling 12,000 Syrian refugees, but security checks could take more than a year, officials said yesterday. Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in September that
Bangladesh was on high alert yesterday after executing two opposition leaders for war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, despite threats of violence by their supporters and international concerns
Soldiers, police and volunteers pulled body after body from the rubble in northern Myanmar yesterday, as the death toll from a landslide near several jade mines reached at least 113, a
The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made
The film “The Assassin” by the veteran Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien has grabbed five awards, including the best director and bestfeature film, at the Golden Horse Awards. The Golden Horse awards are
Thirteen years after mooting the idea, Southeast Asian leaders yesterday formally created a unified economic community in a region more populous and diverse than both the European Union and North
A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed about 100 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers sifting through a huge mountain of tailings
Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders on charges of war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, a senior jail official said yesterday, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them
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