Asia Pacific
Powerful earthquakes rock Thailand and Myanmar, triggering the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise
BY DAVID RISING and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AP A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand ...South Korea’s wildfires kill 24, wreak ‘unprecedented damage’
By Kang Jin-kyu and Sue Han Kim AFP One of South Korea’s worst-ever wildfire outbreaks has killed at least 24 people, officials ...South Korean wildfires spread, three more disaster zones named
Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea on Monday as authorities designated three more counties ‘special disaster zones’. At least four people ...Japan, China, and South Korea agree to promote peace, cooperation
By Natsuko Fukue and Katie Forster AFP Japan, South Korea and China agreed Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a ...China, EU vow countermeasures against sweeping US steel tariffs
By Peter Catterall with Beiyi Seow in Washington AFP China and the EU vowed Wednesday to strike back and defend their economic ...Ex-Philippine president Duterte arrested for crimes against humanity
By Pam CASTRO AFP Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court ...Thousands of Australians without power as storm Alfred lashes Queensland
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging ...China and Canada retaliate as Trump tariffs take effect
BY JOSH BOAK, PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES AP China and Canada announce retaliatory action as US President Trump’s tariffs against Canada, Mexico ...Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan settle border dispute that sparked deadly clashes
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, two ex-Soviet Central Asian states, said on Friday that they had resolved a decades-old border dispute that had sparked ...North Korea destroys family reunion centre in ‘inhumane act’, Seoul says
BY KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press North Korea is demolishing a venue that for decades hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the ...
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