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Twelve years after Asia tsunami, 400 bodies unidentified in Thailand
At least 400 victims of Asia\'s 2004 tsunami that killed 226,000 people remain unidentified in Thailand 12 years on, police said on ...China seizes U.S. submarine drone in South China Sea
China "unlawfully" seized an unmanned US naval probe in international waters in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday, a move ...Mass protest demands ouster, arrest of South Korea president
Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched in Seoul for the sixth-straight week Saturday to demand the ouster and arrest of scandal-hit President ...Hundreds of thousands gather in South Korea for fifth week of protests against Park
Hundreds of thousands rallied in central Seoul on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against President Park Geun-hye, in the largest ...7.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 hit northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, issuing tsunami advisories for ...Thousands protest South Korean president as older conservatives grumble
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday in the fourth straight weekend of protest against embattled ...Tsunami hits New Zealand after massive quake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck central New Zealand just after midnight, the U.S. Geological Survey said, generating a tsunami ...Japan executes inmate for murdering two women
Japan executed a death-row prisoner for the murders of two women on Friday, the justice ministry said, a further snub to calls ...Australian gets 15 years prison for abusing girls in Bali
An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced an Australian retiree to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing girls on the tourist island ...One killed, two injured in Japan park blasts
One person was killed and at least two injured by twin near-simultaneous blasts in a Japanese park on Sunday, the local fire ...