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Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives. The Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar...

Gunfire erupted during a peace rally in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding over two dozen others, police and government officials said. Local police officer Mohammad Afzal said the shooting happened as hundreds of people marched along a main road in...

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial era “against the will of the people,” the education ministry announced Friday. The historically significant trove known as the...

At least 24 people, including children, have been killed in explosions in a remote area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan, triggering calls for an investigation into the incident. A local police official said bomb-making material allegedly stored at a compound run by Pakistan...

The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor, the International Criminal Court has revealed. The redacted charges were made public Monday after...

Dozens of Cambodian civilians were injured when Thailand’s military used tear gas and rubber bullets during clashes in a disputed area on the Thai-Cambodia border, the most significant violence since both countries halted cross-border fighting in July. Local media in Cambodia reported that 29 people...

Nepalese authorities lifted the curfew in the country’s capital and surrounding areas on Saturday as calm returned following the appointment of the Himalayan nation’s first woman prime minister in the wake of protests this week that killed at least 51 people and collapsed the government. In the...

Pakistani security forces have raided three hideouts of the Pakistan Taliban armed group near the Afghan border in recent days, triggering fierce clashes that killed at least 19 soldiers and 45 fighters, says the military. The military on Saturday said 22 fighters were killed in Bajaur, a district...

At least 51 people have been killed during violent anticorruption protests in Nepal this week, and thousands of prisoners who escaped during the chaos remain on the run, according to police. Police spokesperson Binod Ghimire said on Friday that those killed so far this week included 21 protesters...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on two private schools in a village in Myanmar has killed at least 18 people, most of them students, an armed group and local media reports said Friday. More than 20 others were injured in the nighttime attack on the Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township, the...