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The Philippine government said yesterday that four Filipino nurses reported to have been kidnapped from a Libyan hospital by militants from an Islamic State group affiliate were actually taken to
Nepal is adding more medical staff at Mount Everest’s base camp and working to speed up rescue efforts, officials said yesterday, in steps to boost safety after 16 local guides were
Relief workers saw a flattened landscape and widespread destruction in Vanuatu’s outer islands yesterday after struggling for days to reach the areas of the South Pacific nation hardest hit by a
The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet this week for their first trilateral talks in three years, Seoul officials said yesterday. The annual talks, which began
A 23-year-old boxer died yesterday two days after losing consciousness after losing a 10-round featherweight bout. Family spokesman James O’Shea confirmed Braydon Smith, who was in the final year of
Vanuatu’s president was rushing back to his country yesterday in the wake of what he dubbed a “monster” cyclone whose damage was still unknown beyond the devastation in the South
Malaysian police arrested the eldest daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for alleged sedition yesterday, a move slammed by critics as a clampdown on dissent. Nurul Izzah Anwar, a lawmaker
Indian police have detained eight people in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 72-year-old nun in the eastern state of West Bengal in the early hours of Saturday,
Officials struggled yesterday to determine the scale of the devastation wrought by a monstrous cyclone that tore through the tiny South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, with death counts varying in the
A senior Myanmar official yesterday denied Chinese accusations that one of his country’s warplanes crossed China’s border and dropped a bomb that killed four farmers during fighting with Myanmar rebels. The official, from
Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers exploded themselves near two churches in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday as worshippers were gathered inside, killing 14 people, officials said, in the latest attack
A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said, the
Here are some examples: — South Koreans use the English loan word “juice” but North Koreans say “danmul,” or “sweet water.” — South Koreans watch a “musical” but North Koreans see a
Yusuke Suzuki of Japan broke the 20-kilometer race walk world record yesterday at the Asian Race Walking Championships. Suzuki won the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in his home town with
The president of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu appealed to a U.N. disaster conference Saturday for help as a powerful cyclone swept across his archipelago, driving painfully home the
Here’s an easy one: North Korea’s Kim Jong Il orders a famous South Korean film director and his actress wife kidnapped and brought into the country to remake a tepid
Australia’s government was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of suicide bombers from the Islamic State movement that struck Iraq’s embattled Anbar province. The Islamic State
Australia has offered to cover Indonesia’s costs for keeping two Australian heroin traffickers in prison for life if Jakarta grants permanent stays of execution, the foreign minister said yesterday. Australia is lobbying hard
The parents of the now-estranged wife of Thailand’s crown prince have been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of defaming the monarchy, in the latest
A flight attendant who says she was living her dream by working for Korean Air is now suing the airline and its infamous nut rage executive, claiming the bizarre onboard
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