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Aug 26, 2017

North Korea launches three short-range missiles after nearly monthlong hiatus, U.S. says

By Reiji Yoshida and Jesse Johnson

After a nearly monthlong hiatus, North Korea launches three short-range ballistic missiles, one of which explodes almost immediately, amid war games held by the U.S. and South Korea.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Aug 26, 2017

More than a thousand join funeral procession for Philippine teen slain by drug cops

More than a thousand mourners attended a funeral procession in a northern Manila suburb on Saturday for a high school student whose killing a week earlier by anti-drug officers has caused rare public outrage about the country's war on drugs.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 26, 2017

North Korea steps up work on parts for new reactor, IAEA says

North Korea has increased its efforts to produce parts for a new nuclear reactor it is building while continuing to operate the main existing one that provides fuel for its atom bombs, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an annual report released Friday.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Aug 26, 2017

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's former leader, has fled to Dubai: senior party members

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 25, 2017

Australia's Turnbull says changing statues and rewriting history is 'Stalinist'

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a "Stalinist" rewrite of history.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Aug 25, 2017

Hong Kong pro-independence duo lose appeal over council seats

Hong Kong's highest court dismissed an appeal by two pro-independence lawmakers contesting their disqualification from the legislature last year on Friday, effectively ruling out their return to the political fold in the Chinese-ruled city.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 25, 2017

Chinese national arrested in Los Angeles over malware used to hack U.S. government agency

U.S. authorities on Thursday accused a Chinese national visiting the United States of providing malware that has been linked to the theft of security clearance records of millions of American government employees.

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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS

Aug 25, 2017

U.S. possesses a powerful — but risky — tool to halt North Korea's nuclear progress

By David Brunnstrom and Yeganeh Torbati

The U.S. government is turning the screws on companies that do business with North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions but has stopped short of taking the more aggressive — and riskier — move of targeting Chinese banks that facilitate Pyongyang's trade in arms and other banned goods.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 25, 2017

Russian nuclear bombers fly near North Korea in rare show of force, prompting fighter scrambles

Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown a rare mission around the Korean Peninsula at the same time as the United States and South Korea conduct joint military exercises that have infuriated Pyongyang.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 23, 2017

Even as tensions ease, North Korea releases photos indicating future missile types

By Jesse Johnson

Photos released by nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday appear to reveal the designs for two new missiles — a provocative move that comes just after the United States' top diplomat said he was pleased with the recent "restraint" exercised by Pyongyang.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 23, 2017

Chinese media say collisions show U.S. Navy 'becoming a hazard in Asian waters'

By Jesse Johnson

The U.S. Navy's second major collision by a ship from its 7th Fleet on Monday shows it is "becoming a hazard in Asian waters" amid Washington's claim that the navy is protecting freedom of navigation, Chinese state-run media have said.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Society

Aug 23, 2017

Rohingya say Myanmar Buddhists are blockading them amid fresh fears of violence in Rakhine

Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a western Myanmar village, residents say, as religious tensions in troubled Rakhine state spread to a more ethnically mixed part of the region.

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