Reports Emerge of Army Attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya
YANGON — Just five months after her party took power, Myanmar's Nobel Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is facing international pressure after recent reports that soldiers have been killing, raping and burning homes of the country's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
Cargo Plane Disappears With 4 On Board in Indonesia
JAKARTA — An official says a cargo plane carrying four people has been reported missing in Indonesia's eastern most province of Papua.
1st Zika-Linked Microcephaly Case Reported in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has reported its first case of microcephaly likely linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Powder Sprinkled Into Opera Pit May Have Been Human Ashes
NEW YORK — A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York's Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover's ashes, police say.
South Korean Protesters Call for President Park’s Ouster
SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday calling for increasingly unpopular President Park Geun-hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs.
FBI Announces New Clinton Email Inquiry
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails uncovered during the sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides.
Duckworth Opponent Apologizes for Mocking Her Family’s Military History
CHICAGO — Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk apologized Friday for mocking his Democratic rival's immigrant background and her claim that her family's military service dates back to the Revolution – comments that drew wide criticism and threatened an already difficult re-election campaign.
Nepal Storyteller Uses Photos and Few Lines to Reveal Lives
KATHMANDU, Nepal — It started with a photograph of a smirking, young man wearing a heavy-metal band T-shirt and selling tea on the streets of Kathmandu. It has become a wildly popular blog chronicling street life in the Himalayan nation of Nepal.
Duckworth’s Thai Heritage Attacked by U.S. Senate Opponent
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — A Bangkok-born candidate for the U.S. Senate and American war hero was attacked for her Thai heritage during a televised debate Thursday night in Springfield, Illinois.
North Korea Nuke Threat Awaits Next US President
WASHINGTON — If North Korea has been a foreign policy headache for Barack Obama's presidency, it threatens to be a migraine for his successor. The next president will likely contend with an adversary able to strike the continental U.S. with a nuclear weapon.
