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US, South Korea Push Ahead with Defensive Military Exercises

PENTAGON — North Korean threats to step away from denuclearlization talks are not slowing down planned military exercises between the United States and South Korea. Pentagon officials reiterated Wednesday that the exercises, Max...

Another police station attacked in Indonesia

A police officer has been killed in an attack on a police outpost on Indonesia's Sumatra island Wednesday. Five men in a van drove up to the front gate of the outpost...

N. Korea escalates threat to pull out of summit with US

SEOUL — North Korea’s sudden threat to pull out of the upcoming summit with the U.S. raises new doubts of whether a denuclearization deal is possible. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

Fresh fighting erupts in Northern Myanmar as US, China call for restraint

YANGON, MYANMAR — New fighting broke out Monday along the border between Myanmar and China, as the United States and China urged restraint. The latest violence erupted near the area where...

Vietnam widens anti-corruption campaign by cleaning the ruling party

TAIPEI — The ruling Communist Party of Vietnam will call together hundreds of members who it believes can resist corruption and rigorously review others to ease a growing problem for the...

Explosion at Indonesian police headquarters, day after church bombings

A police outpost has been attacked by two suicide bombers on a motorcycle in Surabaya, Indonesia, leaving 10 people wounded. Closed circuit television footage shows a man and a woman driving up...

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