Poll win disputed amid call for dialogue

NAIROBI - Kenya's opposition party has dismissed the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta in the rerun of the country's presidential election.

Millions of Malaysian phone users' personal data stolen, report says

KUALA LUMPUR - Home addresses and identity numbers, among other details of 46.2 million mobile phone subscribers, nearly the entire population of Malaysia, may have been compromised, local media reported on Tuesday.

Refugees refuse to leave PNG facility

SYDNEY - Hundreds of fearful refugees were urged to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday as conditions worsened, with power and water cut off in a tense impasse.

US vows to defeat IS after attack

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to defeat the Islamic State group after a terrorist attack in New York killed eight people.

Abe reelected as PM after election victory

TOKYO - Leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Shinzo Abe was reelected as the country's prime minister on Wednesday following the ruling party's sweeping victory in the Oct 22 lower house election.

Spanish court summons axed Catalan leader

BRUSSELS - Spain's top criminal court summoned Catalonia's axed separatist leader for questioning, hours after he appeared in Brussels insisting he remained the "legitimate president" of a region now under direct rule from Madrid.

UK minister named as 'sex pest' scandal hits Westminster

LONDON - British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon was the latest British politician on Wednesday to be named in a sexual harassment scandal that has erupted in the Houses of Parliament.

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Key link in modern Silk Road

ANKARA - A newly built railway line connecting Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia was inaugurated on Monday in Azerbaijan's capital city of Baku.

Initiative will 'enormously benefit ASEAN'

PHNOM PENH - China's Belt and Road Initiative will greatly benefit the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, especially in infrastructure development, officials and academics said at a symposium.

Inconsistencies cast doubt on survival tale

HONOLULU - Two women who said they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, the US Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistencies that cast doubt on their harrowing tale of survival.

NZ moves to ban foreigners from buying homes

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday a ban on foreigners buying existing homes would begin in early 2018, but the restrictions would not apply to Australians.