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Two Philippine officials say that American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrance despite China’s expressions of alarm

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most crucial partners, India and China, as he seeks to draw foreign investment and pull the economy out of the doldrums

Cambodia has broken ground to build a $1.7 billion, China-funded canal to eventually link its capital Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Thailand

The victory plan that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House this week asks the Biden administration to do something it has not done in two and a half years of Russia's full-scale invasion: take swift action to support Kyiv's campaign

Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir have begun casting their votes in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government

Former AP correspondent in Chile, Eva Vergara, who covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died on Tuesday

The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent of the contamination they have been exposed to that they worry could increase their risk of cancer

The head of New York City’s public schools system says he will step down at the end of the calendar year, becoming the latest high-ranking departure from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration amid an escalating federal inquiry

Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans have influenced how they treat those patients

Appreciative prosecutors said Ellison’s cooperation was “critical to indict and convict” on-again, off-again lover and disgraced FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now serving 25 years in prison

Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice