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Macau,
A Japanese zoo has apologized for naming a baby monkey Charlotte after the newborn British princess following complaints at home. The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden said yesterday it was considering renaming
An Afghan court yesterday convicted and sentenced four men to death for their role in the brutal mob killing of a woman in Kabul in March — a slaying that
One of India’s biggest and most popular movie stars, Salman Khan, was sentenced to five years in jail yesterday on charges of running over five men sleeping on a sidewalk
It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as they
Police found two more camps yesterday believed to have held human trafficking victims in southern Thailand — one recently abandoned and the other containing a buried skeleton — days after
Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej made a rare public appearance yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of his coronation. All television stations carried the event live, as the 87-year-old monarch emerged
The leader of the United Nations Development Program has praised China’s relief efforts in Nepal and said the country’s importance to global development will only grow. Helen Clark, the UNDP administrator,
Sherpas in Nepal have refused to rebuild a climbing route on Mount Everest that was destroyed by an earthquake-triggered avalanche more than one week ago, a decision which will likely end this
North Korea announced yesterday that the head of its parliament will attend this month’s Victory Day celebration in Moscow, squelching speculation that supreme leader Kim Jong Un would use the
Thai police arrested three local officials and a Myanmar national they alleged yesterday were involved in trafficking and holding Rohingya Muslims for ransom at a jungle camp where 26 bodies
Europeans grappling with mass migration from Libya were seeking information about Australia’s controversial success in stopping asylum seeker boats reaching its shores, the Australian prime minister said yesterday. Refugee advocates and human rights
Australia will jail foreigners who purchase homes illegally as the government seeks to slow a surge in house prices, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. Sentences may stretch to three years and
Runway damage forced Nepalese authorities to close the main airport yesterday to large aircraft delivering aid to millions of people following the massive earthquake, but U.N. officials said the overall
A long-absent noise — cheers — rang out in Nepal’s capital yesterday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. The joy
This city once known as Saigon was blanketed in red banners yesterday that read “Long Live the Glorious Communist Party of Vietnam,” 40 years after northern forces seized control of the
Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals and executed eight people convicted of drug smuggling yesterday, although a Philippine woman was granted a stay of execution. Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo confirmed at a news
Aid reached a hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal’s earthquake for the first time yesterday, four days after the quake struck and as the death toll from the disaster passed the
Helicopters crisscrossed the mountains above a remote district yesterday near the epicenter of the weekend earthquake in Nepal that killed more than 4,400 people, ferrying the injured to clinics and
A massive landslide in a remote province in northeastern Afghanistan yesterday killed at least 52 people, a provincial official said. The stricken area in Badakhshan province is cut off from the
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