On the Andaman Islands, India bans a controversial resort to protect the Jarawa tribe via Andaman And Nicobar Islands: India Bans Controversial Tourist Resort But Fails To End ‘Human Safaris’.
Farmers, fisherfolk, and indigenous people have filed a petition for environmental protection against a mining company via Philippines: Farmers, Fisherfolks File Petition For Environmental Protection Order Against Mining In MacArthur Leyte - CBCP-NASSA/ATM.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The Taliban released a video Wednesday that they say shows the heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan this week and beheaded. The bloody attack showed the threat still posed by the…
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Searchers pulled out 15 bodies buried under mud, rocks and debris on Thursday, raising this week’s death toll to 106 from landslides and floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh. Officials said the landslides occurred mainly…
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The dormitories are empty, the once charming bungalows of professors overgrown with vines and weeds. Only grass grows where the Student Union building stood before soldiers obliterated it with dynamite. This is Yangon University, once one of Asia’s…
Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire burns as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Gaylon Wampler) GALON WAMPLER — ASSOCIATED PRESS Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/06/27/2239951/waldo-canyon-fire-in-colo.html#wgt=rcntgal#storylink=cpy
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine provincial governor says his political rival tried to kill him and his brother months before a 2009 election-related massacre of 57 people. Esmael Mangudadatu, governor of southern Maguindanao province, testified at the massacre trial Thursday that the…
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Four days before Mexico‘s presidential election, much of the nation’s attention is focused on a man who appears certain to lose. That man is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the fiery, feisty leftist who shut down the heart of…
Associated Press ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - Former President Fernando Lugo on Wednesday urged international organizations to recognize that his ouster constituted a democratic breakdown and said he expected events in Paraguay to echo what happened in Honduras following that country’s 2009…
Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Senators on Thursday rejected laws that would have enabled Australia to turn away asylum seekers to discourage them from attempting long and dangerous ocean journeys in rickety boats. The legislation had scraped through the House of…