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North Korea has no time for Japan. Not anymore, at least. The country will establish its own time zone this week by pulling back by 30 minutes its current standard time, a legacy
Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima yesterday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts
An Afghan military helicopter crashed in a remote region of the southern Zabul province yesterday, killing a total of 17 soldiers, including five crew members, officials said. Provincial police chief Mirwais
Two passenger trains jumped off slippery tracks on a bridge near a rain-swollen river in central India, killing at least 24 people as two coaches hurled through mud and rested on
The United Nations said yesterday that an increasing number of women and children were getting hurt or killed in Afghanistan’s war against the Taliban and other insurgents. The total number of casualties in
The 92-year-old widow of late South Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung arrived in North Korea yesterday for a four-day visit. According to Lee’s official itinerary, she will visit a
Setting aside decades of animosity and suspicion, senior Myanmar government and military officials have held unprecedented discussions with representatives of the main opposition party and ethnic minorities in Washington on
An accurate assessment of the damage caused has so far been impossible due to a huge cloud of impenetrable dust covering the target. Hiroshima is one of the chief supply
Malaysia yesterday called for more efforts to find a peaceful solution to rising tensions in the disputed South China Sea, as the U.S. and the Philippines said they would demand that China stop land
South Korea’s president has decided to replace her health minister, officials said yesterday, in the wake of criticism over the government’s handling of the MERS virus outbreak that killed 36
New devastation is feared in Myanmar as water from the badly flooded central and northern regions flows down rivers to the country’s more populous areas. The U.N. Office for the
A New Zealander who was the last surviving pilot from the specialized World War II “Dambuster” mission targeting German infrastructure died yesterday. Les Munro was 96. The team of top pilots secretly trained
Pakistan executed a man yesterday convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy in 2004 when his family and lawyers say he was just 14 years old, despite international outcry over his sentence,
Roads filled with driverless cars, every home linked with fiber-optic cable, gardens in the sky, shining towers of scientists creating the future. Singapore is at it again, trying to plan
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited one of the country’s many flood-afflicted areas yesterday, raising her profile during a national disaster that could have consequences in this November’s general election. Over
India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in what the government describes as a way to protect social decency. N.N. Kaul, a
Heavy rains in Myanmar have caused more flooding and left nine people dead, devastating several townships and forcing more than 18,000 people into temporary shelters, officials said Saturday. Much of the country has
The speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives resigned yesterday following weeks of accusations that she used taxpayer money to pay for extravagant and unnecessary travel. Bronwyn Bishop has faced fierce criticism since it
Television images showed people bursting firecrackers and raising an Indian flag in the Masaldanga enclave, which became part of India. On the other side of the new border, thousands of people
A senior Malaysian official says that an object found in Reunion has been confirmed as “a domestic ladder” and is not a plane part, amid media reports that a new
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