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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in 2012 in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

Canada Revokes Myanmar Leader’s Honorary Citizenship

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada's Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed...
Indonesian soldiers line up the bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims for a mass burial Tuesday in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Rifki / Associated Press

Desperation Grows as Death Toll Soars From Indonesia Quake

PALU, Indonesia — Trucks carrying food for desperate survivors of the earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island rolled in with a police escort Tuesday to...
Indonesian red cross team carry the body of a tsunami victim following a massive earthquake and tsunami Monday at Talise beach in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Tatan Syuflana / Associated Press

In Neighborhood Buried by Quake, Kin Found in Final Embrace

PALU, Indonesia — For two days, Edi Setiawan helped pull the dead and the living out of a sea of mud and debris, all...
Local fishing boats move in to recover the passengers and crew of an Air Niugini flight Friday following the plane crashing into the sea on its approach to Chuuk International Airport in the Federated States of Micronesia. Photo: James Yaingeluo / Associated Press

Passenger’s Body Found in Pacific Lagoon After Plane Crash

CANBERRA, Australia — A passenger's body has been found in the Pacific lagoon where a plane crash-landed last week near an island runway in...
Former Communist Party Secretary General Do Muoi, front center, is helped to walk to pay respects to late Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap at the National Funeral House in 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo: Hoang Dinh Nam / Associated Press

Do Muoi, Former Vietnam Communist Party Chief, Dead at 101

HANOI — Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Do Muoi, a committed communist, has died at age 101. The government said in...
Rescuers evacuate an earthquake survivor by a damaged house Sunday following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Arimacs Wilander / Associated Press

String of Disasters Exacts Heavy Damage, Human Toll in Asia

BANGKOK — A recent string of natural disasters, the latest a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, have exacted a severe toll both in...
People survey damage outside the shopping mall following earthquakes and a tsunami in October in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Tatan Syuflana / Associated Press

Burials Beginning in Indonesia as Rescue Need Grows Urgent

PALU, Indonesia — A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims was being prepared for hundreds of bodies in a hard-hit city Monday as...
An army officer salutes as a flag-draped coffin of late President Tran Dai Quang passes on a truck-drawn artillery carriage Thursday in Hanoi. Photo: Tran Van Minh / Associated Press

People Line Streets of Hanoi to Mourn President Quang

Thousands of people lined the streets of Hanoi on Thursday to pay their last respects to Vietnam's late President Tran Dai Quang.
Aldi Novel Adilang, 18, is seen on a wooden fish trap floating in the waters near the island of Guam. Photo: Indonesian Consulate General in Osaka

Indonesian Teen Rescued After 49 Days at Sea

An Indonesian teenager survived 49 days adrift at sea after his wooden fish trap slipped its moorings and ...

Vietnam Jails Activist For Anti-Government Facebook Posts

A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 27 months in prison for Facebook posts that judges say insulted the ruling Communist Party and government.

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