SOUTH KOREA | North fires missiles as Francis calls for greater diplomacy

Pope Francis called for greater efforts toward reconciliation between North and South Korea at the start of the first papal trip in 25 years to the divided peninsula that he

PAKISTAN | Lahore braces as 1 million gather for opposition protest

Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan was seeking to rally 1 million people yesterday for a march from Lahore to the capital to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over fraud allegations

TERRORISM | Report: Islamic State attracting SE Asian fighters

  Islamic State is attracting a growing number of militants from Southeast Asia to fight in Iraq and Syria, raising the risk they will return to carry out attacks in their

INDONESIA| US woman’s body found stuffed in suitcase on Bali

The body of a 62-year-old American woman was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, and authorities on Wednesday arrested her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend

INDIA | Asbestos pushed as product for the poor 

The executives mingled over tea and sugar cookies, and the chatter was upbeat. Their industry, they said at the conference in the Indian capital, saves lives and brings roofs, walls

AUSTRALIA| US secretary of state condemns severed head image 

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday described a photograph of a Sydney-born 7-year-old boy clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier as “disturbing” and “grotesque,” and called for

US, Australia sign military cooperation pact

Lolita C. Baldor, Sydney The U.S. and Australia signed an agreement yesterday that will allow the two countries’ militaries to train and work better together as U.S. Marines and airmen deploy in and

RELIGION | Pope kicks off Asia missionary boost in S Korea 

When Pope Francis was a young Jesuit, he wanted to follow in the great Jesuit tradition and become a missionary in Asia. Health problems kept him home, but he is

AUSTRALIA Newspaper: Terrorist’s son poses in gruesome photo 

An Australian newspaper yesterday published a photograph of a child it said was the son of an Australian convicted terrorist holding aloft the severed head of a Syrian soldier. Prime Minister

S CHINA SEA DISPUTE | No solution in sight on sea row after Myanmar meet

  Despite U.S. and Asian calls for self-restraint and new impetus for the resolution of territorial disputes involving China, a high-profile Asian security summit ended over the weekend where it began, with no

MYANMAR | Kerry presses regime on democratic reform 


To improve relations with the United States, Myanmar must make progress in its democratic transition and halt what Washington sees as backsliding on commitments to improve human rights, U.S. Secretary of State

JAPAN | Halong drenches the country; 1 dead, dozens hurt 


A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan yesterday after lashing the country with rain and wind, leaving one person dead, more than 50 injured and prompting

THAILAND | Australian case casts spotlight on business of surrogacy

For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places like Thailand and India. Ready to help them are young women who become

CAMBODIA | UN-backed tribunal convicts 2 Khmer Rouge leaders to life

Three and a half decades after the fall of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, a U.N.-backed tribunal yesterday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for crimes against humanity

SENKAKU-DIaoYU ISLANDS DISPUTE | Them’s fighting words! The politics of place names 

  Is it the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf? Mount McKinley or Denali? Mumbai or Bombay? Some geographic names don’t just tell us where we live or where we’re going. They’re

JAPAN | Hiroshima marks 69th anniversary of atomic bombing

Japan marked the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima yesterday, as Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to visit the city

INDONESIA | Court begins hearing election dispute

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court yesterday began hearing a challenge of the result of the country’s July 9 presidential election, in which Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo was declared victor. Losing candidate Prabowo Subianto

PHILIPPINES | Arrested militant: Terror suspect alive

A captured Abu Sayyaf commander told investigators that a top Southeast Asian terror suspect, who the military reported was killed in a U.S.-backed airstrike two years ago, is alive and

PHILIPPINES | 12 Chinese convicted of poaching

A Philippine court yesterday convicted 12 Chinese men of poaching after their boat carrying frozen meat of protected pangolins ran aground in a marine park. The Regional Trial Court in Puerto

BANGLADESH | 125 presumed dead in ferry sinking

More than 200 people were believed to be on board the M.V. Pinak when it capsized Monday. Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan told reporters yesterday that at least 125 were presumed

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