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March 16, 2017

Russia pledges to veto UN sanctions resolution on Syria

Russia pledged to veto a Western-backed U.N.

March 16, 2017

Japan emperor to meet abandoned Vietnam families of soldiers

Japan's emperor and empress, on a landmark visit to Vietnam, are expected to express their sympathies when they meet with Vietnamese women abandoned by their Japanese soldier husbands after World War II.

March 16, 2017

Latest-generation Chinese combat drone makes maiden flight

China's latest-generation combat drone has made its maiden flight, in what its developer says is a sign that the country is catching up with industry leader the United States.

March 16, 2017

The strange life, and sudden death, of a North Korean exile

The heavy-set man got out of a Macau taxi one night last September, heading to the lobby bar at one of the city's most expensive hotels.

March 16, 2017

Malaysia to charge 2 women with murder in N. Korean's death

Malaysia's attorney general says the two women accused of killing the half brother of North Korea's leader with a nerve agent in a Kuala Lumpur airport terminal will be charged with murder on Wednesday.

March 16, 2017

China factory activity picks up steam, surveys show

China's factory activity picked up pace last month, surveys released Wednesday showed, adding to recent evidence that a key sector of the world's No.

March 16, 2017

UN panel says North Korea uses new ways to flout sanctions

A United Nations report says North Korea is flouting U.N.

March 16, 2017

NKorea official in Beijing after China's ban on coal imports

A top North Korean diplomat is visiting Beijing in the wake of China's ban on coal imports from its neighbor and the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's older half-brother in Malaysia.

March 16, 2017

Colombia protests China's execution of 72-year-old drug mule

Colombia's government is protesting China's execution of a retired journalist who was sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into the Asian country.

March 16, 2017

Pakistan deploys extra police ahead of regional summit

Pakistan's interior ministry says it has deployed extra police forces and paramilitary units to boost security in the country's capital ahead of a regional summit on economic cooperation.