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Militants kill 3 police officers in attack on checkpoint in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A group of militants armed with assault rifles attacked a roadside police checkpoint overnight in northwest Pakistan, killing three officers before fleeing, police said Thursday. Officers returned fire at the checkpoint in Hangu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and ...
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Exclusive-New Zealand navy ship made rare transit through Taiwan Strait this month

By Lucy Craymer, Greg Torode and Yimou Lee WELLINGTON/HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) -The New Zealand navy's largest ship, the oiler HMNZS Aotearoa, made a rare transit through the sensitive Taiwan Strait earlier this month, Defence Minister Judith Collins told Reuters. One source with knowledge of the situation ...
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Thailand eyes drones to boost flood relief efforts; deaths climb in Indonesia

By Cong Sun and Huey Mun Leong HAY YAI, Thailand/KUALA PERLIS, Malaysia (Reuters) -Rescuers in Thailand readied drones on Thursday to airdrop food parcels, as receding floodwaters in the south and neighbouring Malaysia brightened hopes for the evacuation of those stranded for days, while cyclone ...
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South Korean police raid Hanwha Ocean shipyard after death of worker, Yonhap says

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police and Labour Ministry officials raided on Thursday the shipyard of Hanwha Ocean in Geoje in the southeast of the country after the death of a worker, the Yonhap News Agency reported. A spokesperson for Hanwha Ocean said in ...
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Political prisoners released in Myanmar mass amnesty

BANGKOK (AP) - Excited families greeted relatives released from Myanmar's Insein Prison on Thursday as part of a mass amnesty granted by the country's military rulers ahead of next month's election. At least eight buses carrying prisoners were welcomed outside the gate of the Yangon ...
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Former AP photographer’s vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared

BERLIN (AP) - Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity. Black and white images captured by a young German photographer, Diether Endlicher - who later spent four decades covering the ...
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Taiwan says it has discussed with US arms purchases for extra defence budget

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan has already held preliminary talks with the United States about what weapons it wants to buy as part of a $40-billion supplementary defence budget, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Thursday. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te announced the previous day the new spending ...
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Myanmar junta pardons thousands ahead of disputed election

(Reuters) -Myanmar's junta will pardon or drop charges against a total of 8,665 people, state media reported on Thursday, allowing them to vote in an upcoming election that Western countries and human rights groups have dismissed as a sham. The order includes the reduction of ...
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Volunteers seek lost pets amid Hong Kong deadly inferno wreckage

By Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) -As firefighters battled floor by floor in Hong Kong's flaming Wang Fuk Court housing complex overnight to find survivors and reunite them with fearful relatives, another band of volunteers swung into action to rescue the estate's ...
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Indonesia races to evacuate stranded residents as flood death toll hits 28

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Floods and landslides brought about by torrential rain in Indonesia's North Sumatra province had killed at least 28 people by Thursday, with rescue efforts hampered by what an official described as a "total cut-off" of roads and communications. A rare tropical cyclone blew ...
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Myanmar’s military rulers grant a mass amnesty ahead of election

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar 's military rulers have granted amnesty to more than 3,000 political prisoners locked up for opposing army rule and dropped charges against over 5,500 others ahead of next month's election, state media reported Wednesday. An official from Yangon's Insein Prison, who ...
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Australia lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard as state sponsor of terrorism

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has listed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a state sponsor of terrorism, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday, following an intelligence assessment that it had orchestrated attacks against Australia's Jewish Community. Australia in August accused Iran of directing two antisemitic ...
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