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Macau,
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
Ambulances carrying coffins arrived yesterday at a prison island and relatives paid final visits to their condemned loved ones in a sign that Indonesia will imminently execute eight foreigners and one Indonesian
The South Korean ferry captain responsible for last year’s disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, was given an increased sentence of life in prison yesterday by an
Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything yesterday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings
Social media is a chronicle of life, and sometimes death. So it should be no surprise that a site of great human and cultural loss in Nepal’s devastating earthquake is
Malaysia’s leader said yesterday that Southeast Asian countries will avoid direct confrontation with China but push for a quick conclusion to a binding code of conduct to govern behavior in
Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country’s history, one week after the biggest seizure, customs officials said
Australia wants corruption allegations against Indonesian judges investigated before their death sentences against two Australian drug traffickers are carried out, the foreign minister said Monday. The Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew
Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, the Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing yesterday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,500
For the first time at age 95, Bill Grayden has come to Gallipoli, where his father stormed the beach and took a bullet through his lung during the ill-fated British-led World
Japanese police have arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone with low-level radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s nuclear energy
Three Japanese Cabinet ministers yesterday visited a Tokyo shrine that honors the country’s war dead, including convicted war criminals, drawing a rebuke from China just a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
As hundreds watched, Gajendra Singh climbed a tree and hung himself with a towel in central New Delhi on Wednesday. Members of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party, which organized the
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