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Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team yesterday, killing four health workers, while a suspected U.S. drone strike killed four alleged militants in Pakistan, officials said. The attack on the health workers
The three-wheeled rickshaw lurched through New Delhi’s commuter-clogged streets with an American scientist and several air pollution monitors in the back seat. Car horns blared. A scrappy scooter buzzed by belching black
The S.S. Ventnor sank 112 years ago off the northern New Zealand coast, bearing unusual cargo: the exhumed bodies of 499 Chinese miners, some in wooden coffins and others in
North Korea held a mass rally yesterday in its capital to protest a United Nations resolution condemning its human rights record. Thousands of protesters in Kim Il Sung Square carried banners praising their
The Philippine immigration bureau said yesterday that it has lifted a blacklist order against nine Hong Kong-based journalists, following criticism from media and Hong Kong’s government. A Hong Kong television cameraman
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to Japan’s surprise recession by delaying a sales-tax increase, it was a cause for worry, not celebration, for many young Japanese. This generation, barely
A 30-year-old Sydney mother has been charged with trying to kill her newborn son by abandoning him in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries, police
The death toll in Afghanistan’s deadliest insurgent attack this year has risen to at least 50, with 63 wounded, many of them children, officials said yesterday, as NATO confirmed that two of
A military court in junta-ruled Thailand sentenced a Web editor to 4 1/2 years in jail yesterday for publishing an article five years ago that it said defamed the nation’s
Afghanistan’s parliament approved agreements yesterday with the U.S. and NATO allowing international troops to remain in the country past the end of this year amid a renewed offensive by Taliban
Helicopter surveys yesterday showed more extensive damage than earlier thought from an overnight earthquake in the mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics. At least 50 homes
A North Korean student with family ties to the regime in his country escaped a kidnapping bid in Paris, where he was studying, and is now in hiding, a French
Yu Gwansun became known as Korea’s Joan of Arc after she lost her parents and was imprisoned during a 1919 uprising against Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization. South Korean Education Minister Hwang
Japanese police were looking for traces of poison in the home of a woman arrested on suspicion of killing her husband, one of six men who have died while in
A South Korean court sentenced the head of a ferry operator to 10 years in prison yesterday over an April ship sinking that killed more than 300 people, mostly teenage
North Korea threatened yesterday to bolster its war capability and conduct a fourth nuclear test to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility that led to the approval of a landmark U.N.
The bodies of four women were found inside an Indian guru’s heavily fortified ashram, police said yesterday, a day after security forces tried to storm the sprawling complex and arrest
Five Thai university students were detained yesterday after giving a three-fingered salute inspired by “The Hunger Games” to the army-backed prime minister in a daring protest against the country’s military
The first Christian governor of the Indonesian capital in 50 years was sworn in yesterday despite loud protests from Islamic hard-liners who insisted Jakarta’s top political job go to a
The world’s boldest effort yet to hold North Korea and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity moved forward Tuesday at the United Nations, where a Pyongyang
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