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Kazakhstan began a new political era, at least formally, as Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as president yesterday, succeeding leader-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev. One of his first acts
Rights Watch urged Japan yesterday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized before their gender is changed on official documents. A 2004 law
Pakistani authorities say militants overran a remote security outpost in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing six members of the paramilitary forces. The Pakistani Taliban — known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan —
International journalists’ organizations are criticizing the status of press freedom in South Korea after the country’s ruling party singled out a Bloomberg reporter with South Korean nationality over
A Thai construction tycoon was convicted yesterday on charges related to a high-profile poaching case last year but was found not guilty of possessing the carcass of
Tsunekazu Takeda is stepping down as the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee amid a vote-buying scandal that French investigators suspect helped Tokyo land next
The New Zealand leader’s promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.
Japan’s space agency said yesterday that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive
The head of China’s energy planning agency has been expelled from the country’s ruling Communist Party and dismissed from his post. Nur Bekri used his authority
Anguished relatives anxiously waited yesterday for authorities to release the remains of those who were killed in massacres at two mosques in the New Zealand city
Australia’s prime minister said yesterday he won’t put officials in danger by retrieving extremists from the Middle East after an Australian Islamic State group widow asked
More than six million people have been affected by a water shortage in large areas of the Philippine capital and a nearby province, with long lines forming
Officials from India and Pakistan met yesterday amid easing tensions to discuss opening a visa-free border crossing to allow pilgrims to easily visit a Sikh
Malaysia’s government backtracked Wednesday on abolishing capital punishment, saying instead that the death penalty would no longer be mandatory for selected offenses. Rights groups slammed the
A New Zealand government minister said he was punched in the face while walking to work in an attack that’s rare in a country where politicians often mingle
Malaysia’s attorney-general ordered the murder case to proceed against a Vietnamese woman accused in the killing of the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, prosecutors said
Vietnam seemed like the perfect place for Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to meet in late February for their latest summit on denuclearization. At
Chinese and Russian hackers are attacking Indonesia’s voter data base in a bid to disrupt the country’s upcoming presidential election, according to a senior election commission
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will be sentenced to prison in Australia today in a landmark case that has polarized
The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in responded sharply yesterday to a conservative lawmaker’s accusation that he was acting as the “top spokesman” of North
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