Police warned students Friday to avoid street protests after a gunman shot and wounded two students demonstrating against Thailand's prime minister raising new fears of violence in the country's tense political crisis. Thailand |
Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs as Pyongyang took steps seen as reversing its promised disarmament. Korea |
Former Foreign Minister Taro Aso announced Friday that he would run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as Japan's next prime minister. Japan |  |
 | South Korea protested Japan's renewed claim Friday to a cluster of tiny islets at the center of a long-running territorial row between the two neighboring countries. Regional News |
Authorities are hoping to salvage the wreckage of a Philippine military transport plane from the ocean floor after a U.S. Navy ship pinpointed the location of the plane that crashed two weeks ago killing 11, an official said Friday. Philippines |
Two new candidates indicated Thursday they would join the race to replace Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda after his abrupt resignation this week, but a new poll suggests voters want their say in national elections. Japan |
Four Islamist militants were killed and five wounded in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, security officials and witnesses said. Pakistan |
 | Authorities in one of India's poorest states airdropped leaflets to villagers, appealing for thousands of people remaining in their homes to evacuate as heavy rains risked more flooding. India |
A doctor who examined the man who accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy stood by his claim Thursday that he found no evidence of the alleged rape. Malaysia |
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has recovered well from a stomach illness that put him in hospital for four days and hopes to resume work at the end of the month, an aide said Thursday. India |
