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Aung San Suu Kyi to skip upcoming UN General Assembly

Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has cancelled plans to attend this month's United Nations General Assembly amid rising international criticism of her handling of the violence in western Myanmar...

S. Korea seeks to boost slow Olympic ticket sales

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — With five months to go before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics open, the games are barely an afterthought for most South Koreans, with slow local ticket sales amid...

UN Security Council to Discuss Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis

UNITED NATIONS / GENEVA — The United Nations Security Council is holding an urgent meeting this week on continuing violence in western Myanmar that has forced 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to...

N. Korea Slams New UN Sanctions, Warns US of ‘Greatest Pain’

UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL — North Korea strongly criticized Tuesday the U.N. Security Council's decision to impose tough new sanctions against the East Asian nation, and warned the United States would experience the...

South Korea supports tough sanctions against North but not tactical nukes

SEOUL — Frustrated by North Korea’s continued provocations and perhaps prodded by criticisms from U.S. President Donald Trump, the South Korean government has shifted away from engagement oriented policies to more...

UN Rights Chief: Rohingya Seemingly Face ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from entering, "seems a...

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