March 20, 2017 Japan and Russia hold talks on security, territorial dispute The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first such "two-plus-two" talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine.
March 19, 2017 Tillerson lauds China-US contacts in meeting with leader Xi U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the U.S. is looking forward to the first meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
March 19, 2017 Afghan officials: 12 insurgents killed in 2 drone attacks Afghan officials say that at least 12 insurgents including two of their commanders have been killed in separate drone attacks in eastern Afghanistan.
March 19, 2017 Duterte says he's not intimidated by impeachment attempt The Philippine president says he will not be intimidated by an impeachment complaint and threats of an international lawsuit for his anti-drug crackdown and added that he'd rather have criminals dead even in the "thousands or billions" if they threaten law enforcers than see his men killed.
March 19, 2017 Myanmar hard-line Buddhists protest citizenship for Rohingya Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists in a Myanmar state wracked by religious violence have protested against the government's plan to give citizenship to some members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority community.
March 19, 2017 Malaysia hunting for more N. Korean suspects in Kim's death Malaysia says it is hunting for more North Korean suspects over the killing of the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
March 19, 2017 Duterte: Philippines can't stop China moves in disputed sea The Philippine president says his militarily inferior country can't stop China's actions in contested waters, responding to a reported plan by Beijing to construct an environmental monitoring station in a disputed shoal off the Philippines' northwest coast.
March 19, 2017 13 autoworkers get life in prison for 2012 factory riots A court in north India has sentenced 13 factory workers to life imprisonment for taking part in violence at the country's largest automobile factory that led to the death of a manager nearly five years ago.
March 19, 2017 Pakistan police arrest groom for killing new wife Pakistani police say they have formally arrested a young man for killing his newlywed bride three days after their wedding in the eastern city of Lahore.
March 19, 2017 Bangladesh confirms death sentence for Islamist leader Bangladesh's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal seeking the scrapping of a death sentence for the former head of a banned militant group over a 2004 grenade attack on Britain's then-envoy to Dhaka.
