S.Korean ex-presidential aide arrested in political scandal -Yonhap
SEOUL – South Korean prosecutors detained a former presidential aide late on Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency reported early on Thursday, the second person to be held in an influence peddling…
Indonesia police brace for hardline Islamic protest
JAKARTA – Thousands of hardline Muslims are expected to take to the streets on Friday to protest against the governor of Jakarta, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in…
Vietnam police arrest anti-government blogger
HANOI – Vietnamese police have detained a prominent blogger for distributing anti-state information, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country’s Communist rulers. Ho Van Hai, 52, was arrested on…
Vietnam flooding kills two in central provinces
At least two people have been killed and several more are still missing after torrential rain triggered flooding in central Vietnam, various media reports. Vietnamese state-run online news VnExpress says…
Dutch royals lay tributes for MH17 victims, war dead in Australia
CANBERRA – King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands laid sunflowers at a memorial in the Australian capital on Wednesday for victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 shot…
Boat sinks off Indonesian island killing 17 – disaster agency
NONGSA, Indonesia – A speedboat carrying 93 Indonesian migrant workers from Malaysia sank off an Indonesian island on Wednesday, killing 17 of them, Indonesia’s national disaster agency said. The boat…
Pope says he believes ban on female priests is forever
Pope Francis said on Tuesday he believes the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on women becoming priests is forever and will never be changed, in some of his most definitive remarks…
South Korea names new PM, finance minister amid political scandal
SEOUL – South Korea’s presidential office has named a new prime minister and finance minister, the highest-level shake-up yet since President Park Geun-hye’s administration was rocked by a scandal involving…
Johnny Depp enters Rowling’s magical world in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel
Johnny Depp has swashbuckled as a pirate, played a mad hatmaker and will next step into “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world of magic in the “Fantastic Beasts and…
Australian MH370 report says plane in ‘increasing rate of descent’ when it vanished
A new report into missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 says that additional analysis of satellite communications from the aircraft was consistent with it being in a “high and increasing rate of…
