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Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted on Sunday, blanketing roads and homes in volcanic ash and prompting evacuations of nearly 2,000 residents in East Java province, according to authorities in the country.

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Two former police officers were arrested in South Korea on Monday, accused of destroying evidence relating to the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul, according to authorities in the country.

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Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in the Southeast Asian country.

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A critically-ill six-month-old baby will be placed under the temporary guardianship of New Zealand's High Court after his parents refused to allow him to undergo lifesaving heart surgery using blood from people vaccinated against Covid-19.

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Indonesia has released on parole Umar Patek, a bomb maker in the deadly 2002 Bali attacks, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights said on Wednesday.

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The Taliban on Wednesday put an alleged murderer to death in the first public execution held in Afghanistan since the Islamist group returned to power.

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An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted a retired army officer in the fatal shooting of four teenagers in Papua in 2014, crushing hopes the military would be held accountable for alleged abuses in the country's restive easternmost region.

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International travelers have been flocking back to the popular resort island of Bali as the Covid pandemic subsides, prompting hopes that Indonesia's battered tourism industry is on the road to recovery.

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At a glitzy finance summit in Hong Kong this week, the city's leader triumphantly told a room packed with top Wall Street executives that the Asian hub was back in business. "The worst is behind us," he declared.

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A fresh graduate in her first full-time job; a teenager who helped raise her siblings after their father's death; a foreign exchange student excited for his first trip to Asia.

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South Korea scrambled around 80 fighter jets after detecting a large number of North Korean warplanes during a four-hour period Friday, the country's military said in a statement.

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Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan was injured Thursday after an unidentified gunman opened fire at a rally, according to an official from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

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Investigators probing the crowd crush that killed 156 people during Halloween festivities in South Korea raided police stations across Seoul on Wednesday.

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North Korea fired at least 10 missiles of various types from its east and west coasts on Wednesday, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said.

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Nine people have been arrested over the collapse of a suspension bridge in India's western Gujarat state that killed at least 134 people on Sunday, police said.

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South Korean authorities said Monday they had no guidelines to handle the huge crowds that gathered for Halloween festivities in Seoul, as families in the country and around the world mourn the 154 victims of Saturday night's crowd crush.

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set on Monday to fly over flood-submerged districts to inspect the damage after Tropical Storm Nalgae barreled across the Southeast Asian country over the weekend, killing at least 98 people.

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Over 150 people were killed and dozens more hurt in an apparent crowd surge during packed Halloween festivities in Seoul, according to fire authorities. Follow live updates here.

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Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit party district in South Korea's capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it's the site of one of the country's worst disasters.

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A man who fooled dozens of women into sending him photos of their genitalia by posing as a female gynecologist on Facebook has been sentenced to jail in Singapore.

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An Iranian hermit known as "the world's dirtiest man" has died at the ripe age of 94, just months after taking his first wash in decades, Iranian state media announced.

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North Korea claims to have miniaturized nuclear warheads to fit on ballistic missiles, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.

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It's the first time an injunction has been issued to halt an operational nuclear reactor.

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After an earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant quickly became a disaster of its own.

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The announcement follows its refusal to participate in international arbitration in the South China Sea dispute.

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Changing attitudes towards ivory in China threaten an ancient art form

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Eight people died Sunday when a crew upgrading a Bangkok bank's fire extinguishing system accidentally released a firefighting gas, the bank and police said.

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A U.S. serviceman has been arrested in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa on suspicion of raping a Japanese tourist.

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Myanmar's parliament, the Hluttaw, has chosen Htin Kyaw as the country's next president.

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Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from cruise ship that capsized Tuesday in the Yangtze River, China's state-run news agency reported Saturday.

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Thousands are evacuating after the Indonesian government raised the alert level for Mount Sinabung.

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Peace talks on the conflict in Yemen will convene in Geneva on June 14, the U.N. secretary-general's office announced Saturday.

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Mountain guides helped 167 climbers to safety after a powerful earthquake stranded them atop one of one of southeast Asia's tallest peaks, authorities said.

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Soldiers retrieved the body of a 3-year-old girl on the fourth floor of a capsized Chinese cruise ship Saturday, adding to a grim, growing toll.

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A Korean Air Force member stationed at a U.S. air base in South Korea tested positive for MERS earlier this week and remains in isolation, officials say.

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Two explosions at a campaign rally for the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party left at least two dead and more than 100 wounded in Turkey.

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Chinese crews have recovered 432 bodies from a cruise ship that capsized last week as a search for the missing continues, state media reported Sunday.

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Their hopes have long faded, their prayers gone unanswered. Still, they wait by the banks of the Yangtze River, lighting candles for their loved ones.

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Almost 9.5 million high school students in China have just finished possibly the most important exam of their lives. Could you pass the test?

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Angry relatives of passengers of a capsized Chinese riverboat are staging an impromptu march to the site where they believe their loved ones perished.

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