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File photo: Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea since early January, is taken to North Korea’s top court in Pyongyang, North Korea …

Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman speaks to the media as he leaves for North Korea’s Pyongyang at Beijing Capital International Airport Former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman said …

Shin Shin, Ueno Zoo’s 11-year-old giant panda, began pacing her cage and showing other signs of agitation late on Saturday, prompting keepers to keep watch around the clock A female …

A Pakistani counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a government prosecutor said on Sunday, the first time someone has been handed the …

FILE PHOTO: A female migrant construction worker walks into her dormitory near newly-built residential apartments in Shanghai Hundreds of demonstrators have marched through a shopping district in the Chinese city …

File photo: Japan’s Emperor Akihito smiles at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Japan‘s parliament on Friday passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate, clearing the way for the first …

A South Korean soldier walks past a TV broadcast of a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be several land-to-ship missiles off its east coast, at a …

Japan stepped closer to amending its century-old sex crime law on Thursday when parliament’s lower house approved a bill to widen the definition of rape, make prison sentences lengthier and …

Military soldiers carry dead bodies from a crashed military plane outside Launglon township Bodies and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday …

The plane lost contact 29 minutes after take off while flying at 18,000 feet over the Andaman Sea, about 70km west of the town of Dawei, the military said Ships …