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March 23, 2017

South Korea to inject $2.6 bln into ailing shipyard Daewoo

South Korea announced Thursday a fresh capital injection for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., seeking to prevent the world's second-largest shipbuilder from defaulting on its debts.

March 23, 2017

A look at developments in the 2014 S. Korean ferry disaster

Salvage workers are slowly pulling the huge, corroded South Korean ferry above the sea surface Thursday, about three years after it sank on a routine voyage to a resort island, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.

March 22, 2017

Brazil meat scandal deepens with EU barring some imports

The European Union's spokesman in Brazil says the union is temporarily halting some imports of Brazilian meat amid an investigation into sales of rotten products.

March 22, 2017

South Korea gets set to start salvage of submerged ferry

South Korean workers on Wednesday began the difficult process of raising a 6,800-ton ferry that sank in 2014, killing more than 300 people and triggering a public uproar that contributed to the recent ouster of Park Geun-hye as president.

March 22, 2017

AP Explains: What's behind conflict at sprawling Thai temple

It's more than eight times bigger than Vatican City and twice the size of Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat, making it quite possibly the world's biggest religious complex.

March 22, 2017

The Latest: Syrian Kurds say US Marines deployed in Syria

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 3 p.m.

March 22, 2017

China issues warning to US bomber flying in East China Sea

The Chinese military issued a warning to a U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber flying in the East China Sea Wednesday morning amid escalating tensions in the region, two U.S. officials told Fox News.

March 22, 2017

India jails 2 Hindu hard-liners for blast at Muslim shrine

An Indian court has sentenced two Hindu hard-liners to life in prison for triggering an explosion at a Muslim shrine in western India that killed three people and injured more than a dozen others a decade ago.

March 22, 2017

Thai leader uses special powers to order seat belt use

Thailand's military government is cracking down on traffic carnage, invoking special executive powers accorded by an interim constitution to force automobile drivers and all their passengers to wear seatbelts or face a fine.

March 22, 2017

China says no monitoring station on disputed island

China's foreign ministry says the country is not building an environmental monitoring station on a disputed South China Sea shoal, apparently denying remarks made by a local official last week.