March 15, 2017 Christian pastors accused of smuggling North Korean defectors out of China China arrested two South Korean Christian pastors for allegedly helping to smuggle North Korean defectors out of China, the latest in a string of detentions and expulsions aimed at South Korean Christians in the past several months.
March 15, 2017 UK Marine who killed wounded Taliban fighter gets murder conviction downgraded A Royal Marine who shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has had his murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter.
March 15, 2017 South Korea to hold vote in May to pick ousted President Park Geun-hye's successor South Korean prosecutors said Wednesday they plan to question ousted President Park Geun-hye next week over a corruption scandal that removed her from office, as the government announced that an election will be held on May 9 to pick her successor.
March 14, 2017 Four-year-old braves wolves, subzero Sibera to seek help for grandmother She is being hailed as the bravest girl in Siberia, but Saglana Salchak’s tremendous feat of walking five miles on a frozen river through wolf-plagued forest to seek help for her dead grandma comes with legal consequences.
March 14, 2017 Pentagon shoots down reports of SEAL Team Six training in South Korea Reports that SEAL Team Six is training in South Korea are false, a senior defense official told Fox News on Tuesday.
March 14, 2017 Church fights free birth control in the Philippines Poverty may be an issue -- but is the pill the right answer?
March 14, 2017 Thai customs seizes 21 rhino horns worth $5 million Thai authorities said Tuesday they have seized 21 unusually large rhinoceros horns worth almost $5 million that were smuggled from Ethiopia.
March 13, 2017 Philippines' Duterte asks military to tell China vast sea area 'is ours' President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he has told the military to assert Philippine ownership of a large ocean region off the country's northeastern coast where Chinese survey ships were spotted last year, in a discovery that alarmed Philippine defense officials.
March 13, 2017 South Korean President Park Geun-hye's advisers offer to resign after her ouster, reports say The senior advisers to ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered to resign on Monday, news reports said, three days after the country's Constitutional Court formally ended her rule over a corruption scandal.
March 12, 2017 Families who aided Edward Snowden seeking asylum in Canada A trio of families who sheltered notorious leaker Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 are now seeking asylum in Canada, the northern neighbor of the country whose secrets Snowden stole.