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The World Health Organization says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in
North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture. The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused
Prime Minister Tony Abbott sought to brush off Indonesian concerns that Australia paid people smugglers to turn around boats carrying asylum seekers, saying his government is taking a moral approach
The death toll continued to mount in South Korea’s MERS outbreak yesterday even as schools reopen and people recover from the virus. Nineteen people have died in the largest outbreak of the disease
Nestle India said it will destroy instant noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees (USD50 million) following a sales ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels of lead. India’s food safety panel banned
The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines handed over dozens of assault weapons yesterday in a symbolic gesture to reinforce a peace pact stalled by a public outcry over
Authorities in western Indonesia yesterday evacuated hundreds of villagers living near a volcano that is spewing hot ash down its slopes almost daily. Government volcanologist Gede Suantika said at least 28
A Malaysian oil tanker that went missing last week carrying fuel worth 21 million ringgit (USD5.6 million) and 22 crew members is believed to have been hijacked by pirates, marine
The South Korean death toll from Middle East respiratory syndrome has risen to 16 the Financial Times reported yesterday, as local authorities struggle to contain the disease nearly four weeks
Seoul said yesterday that a teenage North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the heavily guarded border between the two Koreas. An official at South Korea’s defense ministry
Nepal yesterday reopened most of the cultural heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of devastating earthquakes, hoping to lure back foreign tourists. The April 25 and May 12 quakes killed
A senior Pakistani official says the country’s Interior Ministry has halted an order it made closing the office of Save the Children in Islamabad. The official, who spoke to The
South Korea reported seven additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome as President Park Geun Hye sought to rally an economy shaken by fears of contagion. South Korea has confirmed 145
A pocket watch that stopped at 8:15 a.m. when the first atomic bomb dropped. A sprawling picture of twisted bodies and screaming faces engulfed by the flames. The school lunch
Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia’s highest peak were sentenced Friday to three days in jail and fined for obscene behavior in a public place, their lawyer said. The four were among
South Korea reported a 10th death from the MERS virus yesterday, although officials say they believe the disease has peaked. The victim was a 65-year-old man who had been treated for lung cancer
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday it is “very concerned” by claims that Australian officials paid the crew of a boat carrying 65 migrants, including children and a pregnant woman, to
Australia’s prime minister told an Asia-Pacific regional conference yesterday that terrorism was a “modern form of treason: and the region’s greatest security challenge. Prime Minister Tony Abbott gave an opening address
Malaysian police said yesterday that they have detained four Westerners suspected of posing naked at the country’s highest peak last month, just days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on
The blingy joyrides will soon be ending in Mumbai. Tourists hoping to roll down the city’s cacophonous streets in one of its famed, horse-drawn carriages will have to do so before
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