India | Students decry police as citizenship protests grow

Indian student protests that turned into violent clashes with police galvanized opposition nationwide yesterday to a new law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslim migrants who entered the

Pakistan | Lawyer who fought for unlawfully held is abducted

A Pakistani lawyer known for pursuing cases of those unlawfully detained by the country’s security agencies was abducted overnight from his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, his son

India | Opposition building against citizenship law

Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India’s capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the

Japan | Former official sentenced for killing reclusive son

A Tokyo court sentenced a former senior government official to six years in prison yesterday for fatally stabbing his socially reclusive son with a kitchen knife. The

New Zealand | Toxic air, gases hamper search for last two volcano victims

A second land search of New Zealand’s volcanic White Island yesterday failed to locate the bodies of the last two victims of an eruption that has

Strong quake kills one, collapses building in the Philippines

A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines yesterday, killing at least one person and causing a three-story building to collapse, setting off a search for people feared

North Korea may return to launching ICBMs, US envoy Warns

The U.S. sees “deeply troubling indications” that North Korea is poised for a major provocation, UN Ambassador Kelly Craft warned, as Kim Jong Un’s year-end deadline

Citizenship law | Protesters defy curfew in Indian state to vent anger at bill

Police arrested dozens of people and enforced a curfew yesteday in several districts in India’s northeastern Assam state where thousands protested legislation that would grant

Myanmar | Suu Kyi denies genocide allegations at top UN court

Myanmar’s former pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday denied that her country’s armed forces committed genocide against the Rohingya minority, telling the U.N.’s top court

UN: Nearly a half-billion in Asia-Pacific still going hungry

Nearly a half-billion people in the Asia-Pacific are still malnourished and eliminating hunger by 2030 requires that millions escape food insecurity each month, according to a

New Zealand volcano vents steam, delays recovery of bodies

A New Zealand island volcano vented more steam and mud yesterday, prompting authorities to delay plans to recover the bodies of victims from a deadly eruption

New Zealand | Stories of injured, missing in volcano eruption

Officials say 47 people from New Zealand, United States, Australia, Germany, Britain, China and Malaysia were on a New Zealand volcanic island when it suddenly erupted.

India | Crackdown hits religious freedom in disputed Kashmir

For years Romi Jan’s mornings would begin with the plaintive call to prayer that rang out from the central mosque in disputed Kashmir’s largest city. The

New Zealand | At least five dead, many more missing in eruption of volcano

A volcanic island in New Zealand erupted yesterday in a tower of ash and steam while dozens of tourists were exploring the moon-like surface, killing five

Malaysia | Vaccinating for polio after first case in 27 years

Malaysia began a vaccination campaign in a rural town on Borneo island after a 3-month-old boy was confirmed to have polio in the country’s first case

Three charged over Australia’s largest crystal meth seizure

Two customs agents and an information technology worker appeared in a court yesterday charged with drug offenses over Australia’s largest seizure of methamphetamine, which had been smuggled to Melbourne from

Environment | Experts say Mekong River’s new color a worrying sign

The Mekong River has recently acquired an aquamarine color that may beguile tourists but also indicates a problem caused by upstream dams, experts in Thailand say. The river usually has a

AP Exclusive | 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China

Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by

Philippines | Powerful typhoon leaves at least four dead

Typhoon Kammuri barreled across the Philippines with fierce winds and rain yesterday, leaving at least four people dead, forcing hundreds of thousands of villagers to abandon high-risk communities and prompting

Survey | Afghans’ fear for personal safety has increased

Afghans are increasingly fearful for their personal safety, but slightly more believe their war- weary country is moving in the right direction, compared to previous years, according to a new

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