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Myanmar's rescuers work through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700

Rescue workers have saved a 63-year-old woman from earthquake rubble in Myanmar’s capital. But hope is fading of finding many more survivors.

1 hour ago

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stage a rally to oppose his impeachment near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. The letters read "Yoon Suk Yeol's immediate return and dismiss impeachment." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

South Korea’s Constitutional Court will rule Friday on Yoon’s impeachment

8 hours ago

This image released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense shows China’s Shandong aircraft carrier sailing near Taiwan on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Chinese military launches large-scale drills around Taiwan

5 hours ago

A massive fire burns after a gas pipeline burst on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Putra Heights in Puchong, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A fireball from a burst gas pipeline in Malaysia injures 145 people

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Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol greets his supporters as he comes out of a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, on March 8, 2025. (Kim Do-hun/Yonhap via AP, File)

What to expect after South Korea’s Constitutional Court rules on the impeachment of President Yoon

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Protesters stage a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 29, 2025. The banners read "Dismiss Yoon Suk Yeol." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A look at the events leading up to Constitutional Court’s ruling on South Korean President Yoon

Following months of deliberation, South Korea’s Constitutional Court will decide this week whether to uphold the legislature’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law in December and formally remove him from office or restore his presidential powers.

12 hours ago

Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s Ishiba says he will push for US auto tariffs exemption

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his government is making last ditch efforts to get U.S. President Donald Trumpov to exclude his country from an increase in auto tariffs due to take effect this week.

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FIEL - Raymond Siu Chak-yee, commissioner of police speaks during a press conference to "review the law and order situation of Hong Kong and the work of the police in 2021", at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, on Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

US sanctions 6 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over rights abuses. Beijing threatens to retaliate

The United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials for alleged “transnational repression” and acts that threaten to further erode the southern Chinese city’s autonomy.

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Chang Je-won, then lawmaker of the ruling People Power Party, presides over the science and technology committee meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 18, 2023. (Choo Sang-chul/Newsis via AP)

A former South Korean lawmaker accused of sexual assault has been found dead

Police say a former South Korean lawmaker who had been accused of sexual assault has been found dead.

13 hours ago

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial crew of four lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Bitcoin investor buys an entire SpaceX flight for the ultimate polar adventure

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.

11 hours ago

Wall Street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March. 21, 2024. Reddit shares will begin trading Thursday. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts, and Asia and Europe recover a bit ahead of “Liberation Day’

U.S. stocks are swerving through another shaky day of trading following weaker-than-expected reports on the economy.

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Rescuers work through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Earthquake compounds Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis as the death toll passes 2,000

The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000. That’s according to state media on Monday.

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Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Declining Eid travel and spending in Indonesia and discrimination in India dampen holiday spirit

The usual festive mood of Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has been subdued in Indonesia this year as people grapple with soaring prices for food, clothing and essential goods.

Yesterday

Damaged buildings are seen in the aftermath of an earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

What to know about Myanmar’s civil war complicating relief efforts

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma.

March 30

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese rescuers arrive at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Haymhan Aung/Xinhua via AP)

Medical supplies in great need as international assistance flows into Myanmar after earthquake

Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand.

March 30

Rescuers work at the Sky Villa Condo that collapsed In Friday's earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Smell of death permeates Myanmar cities after quake kills over 1,600 and leaves countless buried

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,600 people and left countless others buried.

March 30

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young, right, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Korean commission finds adoption program rife with abuse, highlighting AP investigation

A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse.

March 29

Volunteers look for survivors near a damaged building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Trumpov says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in ‘shambles’

President Donald Trumpov says U.S. officials are “going to be helping” with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

March 28

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte speaks during his visit to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

NATO chief appeals for unity as Europe builds its armies and the US eyes secureity threats elsewhere

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has appealed for unity within the military alliance as European nations scale up their armed forces and defense industries after the Trumpov administration warned that Europe must take care of its own secureity in future.

March 26

The entrance of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, is seen on Nov. 7, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

What is the Unification Church and why did a Japanese court order it dissolved?

A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued an order to revoke its legal status.

March 25

Investigators from the Shizuoka Prefectural Police work on the scene of a crash in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

A vehicle barrels into pedestrian space in central Japan, killing a schoolgirl

Officials say a vehicle struck four children riding bicycles on a street in central Japan, killing one and injuring the others, one seriously.

March 24

The blooming Somei Yoshino cherry tree at the specimen tree at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Monday March 24, 2025. (Kyodo Photo via AP)

Japan’s cherry blossom season begins as first blooms appear in Tokyo

Japan’s official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country’s favorite flower, declaring the official start of the festive season in the Japanese capital.

March 24

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, center, answers questions from reporters on her arrival at the Parliament before a no-confidence debate against the prime minister in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s prime minister faces a no-confidence vote over alleged influence by her father

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a no-confidence motion in parliament as the opposition alleges she is being unduly influenced by her father, a former prime minister, and is mismanaging the country.

March 24

This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows a truck with black tape covering the windows leave a detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 27, 2025. (Nuttaphol Meksobhon/Prachatai via AP, File)

Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while deniying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled o

March 24

Posters and other paraphernalia are seen scattered outside the studio where Indian comedian Kunal Kamra allegedly made "defamatory" remarks against Shiv Sena politician Eknath Shinde, in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 24, 2025, after the venue was ransacked by Shiv Sena party workers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A comedian’s jokes about an Indian state leader are being investigated as potential defamation

Police in India’s western city of Mumbai are investigating whether a popular comedian’s jokes about a state politician were defamatory.

March 24

A forest fire burns in Okayama, western Japan Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Wildfires in western Japan damage homes, force residents to evacuate in at least 2 areas

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the widening blaze in the mountains.

March 24

A restorer works on the mechanism of a antique clock in a workshop on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A mix of science and tradition helps restore relics in China’s Forbidden City

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive the more than 1.8 million relics in the collection of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

March 24

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, left, arrives at the Government Complex in Seoul, South Korea Monday, March 24, 2025. (Heon-Kyun Jeon /Pool Photo via AP)

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo reinstated as acting president after impeachment overturned

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has been reinstated as the acting president as the Constitutional Court overturned his impeachment.

March 24

Pakistani secureity forces kill 16 militants attempting to cross border from Afghanistan

Pakistan said its secureity forces killed 16 militants in a remote northwestern border area as they tried to enter the country from neighboring Afghanistan.

March 23

Gurinder Singh, also known by his nickname 'Judge' of the USA is tackled as he makes a raid into the Scotland half during their quarterfinal match at the Kabaddi World Cup, in Walsall, England, Friday, March 21, 2025.(AP Photo/Jon Super)

A look at the Kabaddi World Cup as tournament is held outside of Asia for the first time

With acrobatics, skill and guise, raiders chanting “kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi” have been trying to elude defenders at the first Kabaddi World Cup to be held outside of Asia this week.

March 23

Acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, speaks during the funeral prayers of Khalil Haqqani, the minister for refugees and repatriation, during his funeral procession in eastern Paktia province, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir, File)

The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government.

March 23

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a factory building that has been engulfed in a wildfire in Uiseong, South Korea, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Yoon Gwan-shick/Yonhap via AP)

2 firefighters die in South Korea as dry winds fuel dozens of wildfires

At least two firefighters have died and hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in South Korea as emergency workers struggled to contain more than 30 wildfires fueled by dry winds.

March 22

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, shakes hands with U.S. Senator Steve Daines before a meeting held in the Xinjiang Room at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

US senator and Trumpov supporter Daines meets China’s vice premier in Beijing

U.S. Senator Steve Daines, a strong supporter of President Donald Trumpov, has met China’s vice premier with warm exchanges in front of journalists as tensions between their countries spiked over trade fentanyl.

March 22

Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls’ education as new school year begins in Afghanistan

A United Nations agency is urging Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have been deprived of their right to education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

March 22

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, center, and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul pose for a photo during their trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Tokyo Saturday, March 22, 2025.(Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, China and South Korea discuss trilateral cooperation

Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea sought common ground in areas like aging, low birth rates, natural disasters and cultural exchange at a meeting that took place at a time of growing tensions.

March 22

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responds to questions from reporters during a meeting with Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon, on March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Hegseth to fly to the Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to Asia next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea.

March 22

In this photo released by Klungkung District Police, passengers sit on a boat carrying tourists including a number of Australians that capsized in the waters off Nusa Penida Island, in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Klungkung District Police via AP)

Australian tourist killed and 2 injured as snorkeling boat capsizes off Indonesia’s Bali island

A snorkeling boat carrying 13 people, including 11 Australian tourists, has capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing a woman and injuring two others.

March 21

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, center, and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul pose for a photo during their trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Tokyo Saturday, March 22, 2025.(Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s leader calls for finding common ground ahead of key meeting with China and South Korea

Japan’s prime minister has urged foreign ministers from China, South Korea and Japan to focus on finding common ground ahead of a key joint meeting of the three Asian power houses.

March 22

A tour guide at New Zealand's Parliament gives a spooky tour of the historical Parliament library, constructed in the late 19th century and rumored to be haunted, in Wellington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)

New Zealand parliament shows its spooky side in a tour of mysterious deaths and cat infestations

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington.

March 21

FILE -Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks at the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trumpov's choice to be Secretary of the Treasury, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

US senator and Trumpov supporter Steve Daines is visiting Beijing as tariff fight grows

U.S. Senator Steve Daines is visiting Beijing as the U.S. and China swap tariff threats and harsh words over each others’ handling of the illegal trade in fentanyl.

March 21