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  • ** FILE ** An Indonesian police anti-terror unit Special Detachment 88 escorts a terror suspect after his arrest in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, Sept. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Four arrested in Jakarta over Myanmar embassy bomb plot

    Indonesian police arrested four people Thursday, foiling a planned terrorist attack on the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Regional Disorder'

    The Spratlys and the Paracels would hardly seem to be worth fighting over. Consisting of a few small islands and a few dozen rock outcroppings, many of which are underwater at high tide, they lack a source of fresh water and have never been inhabited — until now.

  • ** FILE ** Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine. (Associated Press)

    Indonesia: Students expelled for 'tainting religion' with Maroon 5 dance

    Five high school students in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, were expelled and threatened with juvenile detention after they "tainted religion" by recording themselves praying and dancing to a Maroon 5 song.

  • The wreckage of a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 sits in the ocean near the airport in Bali, Indonesia, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. All 108 passengers and crew survived after the new aircraft crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian resort island. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

    Indonesian investigators probe jet's crash into sea

    Indonesian investigators on Sunday began working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss a runway while landing on the resort island of Bali and crash into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 on board.

  • The wreckage of a crashed Lion Air plane sits on the water near the airport in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew overshot a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and crashed into the sea, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials said. (AP Photo/Indonesian Police)

    Lion Air jet crashes into sea in Bali; 45 hurt

    All 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air jet crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, injuring up to 45 people.

  • ** FILE ** A small boat belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico. The Carnival Triumph has been floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula since a fire erupted in the aft engine room a day earlier, knocking out the ship's propulsion system. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished. (Associated Press/U.S. Coast Guard)

    Beleaguered Carnival Cruise Lines to expand into Asia

    Carnival Cruise Lines, which has been plagued by a string of technical problems that have left passengers stranded at port and at sea, is nonetheless moving to expand its operations.

  • A North Korean military guard post is seen near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

    South Korea: North Korea may be preparing to test missile

    A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul.

  • Fight Schedule

    April 5

  • ** FILE ** In this Thursday, March 21, 2013 file photo, armed Myanmar police officers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. (AP File Photo)

    Myanmar communal unrest threatens reforms

    Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were lauded by visiting Western leaders, and the nation's president was hailed as a hero. But spasms of spreading, communal violence show the reform path is bumpier than expected and have taken the sheen off a foreign policy success of the Obama administration's first term.

  • Fight Schedule

    April 5

  • Fight Schedule

    April 5

  • ** FILE ** A Sumatran tiger perches in a tree at a zoo in Medan, Indonesia, on North Sumatra, on Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

    Tiger kill: Rare Sumatran mauls farmer to death

    A Sumatran tiger has mauled and killed a farmer in Indonesia, and desperate and fearful villagers now are begging authorities to shoot the beast.

  • Indonesian volcano spews ash into sky; no one hurt

    Indonesia scientists say they are closely monitoring a smoking volcano on Java island, urging villagers and tourists to stay off the mountain's slope.

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Spin Masters’

    David Freddoso's "Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Re-elect Barack Obama" is essential reading for how the palace guard media stole the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama. This wasn't an election, but a media selection.

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Rice Paddy Navy’

    The U.S. Navy conducting intelligence operations in the inner regions of China? Including arming and directing guerrilla bands to fight the Japanese?

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