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OSAKA - Three junior high schoolers have been implicated in the death of a university student who fell from the rooftop of a building...

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA) — Malaysia will hire 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh in stages over the next three years, a senior official said Friday, despite rejecting a plea from the UN to allow more than 150,000 refugees in the country to find jobs.

GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton called him to congratulate him on his victory.

Dick Tracey didn’t have to visit a tall building to get over his fear of heights. He put on a virtual reality headset.

TOKYO (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Japan in a very personal way Tuesday, spending the morning with his Jesuit confreres in the community that would have been his own had his dream to be a missionary come true.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave her clear support Tuesday to electoral reforms that would likely further exclude opposition voices and cement Beijing’s control over the semi-autonomous Chinese city’s politics.

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's government began releasing about 2,300 prisoners on Wednesday, including activists who were detained for protesting against the military's seizure of power in February and journalists who reported on the protests, officials said.

BANGKOK (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar have arrested dozens of people in a preemptive move to suppress plans for a nationwide strike Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of the army’s seizure of power, state-run media reported.

PETROPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from devastating mudslides and floods that swept through a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state has reached 78, Gov. Claudio Castro said Wednesday afternoon.