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JAKARTA – The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency...
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon is bearing down on the Japanese archipelago after passing near Okinawa on Saturday, with forecasters warning of strong winds, high waves...
JAKARTA – Many bodies were found on Saturday along the shoreline of the Indonesian city of Palu on Sulawesi island which was hit by a major...
SOUTH PACIFIC – A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of...
OTTAWA – Canada’s parliament has unanimously voted to strip Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship over her handling of the Rohingya crisis....
SOUTH CHINA SEA – Japan’s biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with Britain’s HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday as the...
MANILA – Philippine President Redrigo Duterte has stepped up his attacks against the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling the tribunal “a bunch of criminals” trying to...
GENEVA – A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional “burqa ban”, after voters in St. Gallen overwhelmingly voted Sunday to prohibit all face-covering garments in...
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia cannot and will not accept same-sex marriage or lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, LGBT Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday, amid...
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia has granted a pardon to an Australian filmmaker jailed in August on espionage charges for six years, a court in Phnom Penh...