June 9, 2017 North Korea slams Trump for pulling out of Paris Climate Agreement Just days before North Korea fired land-to-ship missiles off its east coast, Pyongyang slammed President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, calling Trump’s move a “shortsighted and silly decision.”
June 8, 2017 Church says riot in Indonesia sparked by military burning Bibles A major church in Indonesia's predominantly Christian Papua province says a riot in the provincial capital last month was sparked by the military burning Bibles, contradicting the police account of events.
May 30, 2017 North Korea eyed as US conducts missile intercept test The Pentagon’s missile defense test Tuesday has been planned for years, but nobody planned for just how pivotal its timing would be.
May 26, 2017 Amid North Korea dangers, US to launch first-of-its-kind missile intercept test The Pentagon announced plans to launch an intercontinental-ballistic missile in the next few days, similar to the recent weapons tests from North Korea.
May 24, 2017 North Korea threatens to strengthen nuclear force 'to the maximum' As tensions continue to escalate between Washington and Pyongyang, North Korea said on Monday that it will strengthen its nuclear force “to the maximum” A spokesman for the North Korea foreign ministry its latest threat came in direct response to mounting warnings by the U.S. that it would no longer stand by while North Korea tests its nuclear arsenals.
May 24, 2017 US Air Force to conduct another missile test as North Korea tensions rise, officials say Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. Air Force is set to conduct another long-range missile test on Wednesday, three U.S. officials told ӣƵ.
May 24, 2017 Parents of Otto Warmbier, US citizen detained in North Korea, want son to be part of negotiations As tensions between the United States and North Korea mount over the defiant dictatorship’s rogue atomic weapons program, the parents of the imprisoned American Otto Warmbier told ӣƵ on Monday they can't let their son's story get lost amid the nuclear noise.
May 24, 2017 2 men in Indonesia caned dozens of times for gay sex Two men in Indonesia's Aceh province have been publicly caned dozens of times for consensual gay sex, a punishment rights advocates denounced as "medieval torture" and escalates an anti-gay backlash.
May 24, 2017 Pacific island has 38 million pieces of trash, but no people When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.
May 24, 2017 AP Exclusive: Kushners tap China's $24B 'golden visa' market When the sister of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family's new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that's proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese.