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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.