ATHENS, Greece - Three migrant fishermen received Greek citizenship on Wednesday for helping rescue dozens of people who were forced into the sea by flames from a summer wildfire that caused 100 deaths.
BEIJING - World leaders looked back on 2018 and looked ahead to the coming 2019 in their New Year's speeches, expecting brighter prospects for their countries as well as the international community.
United States - NASA's New Horizons explorer successfully "phoned home" on Tuesday after a journey to the most distant world ever explored by humankind, a frozen rock at the edge of the solar system that scientists hope will uncover secrets to its creation. The nuclear-powered space probe has traveled 6.4 billion kilometers to come within 3,540 km of Ultima Thule, an apparently peanut-shaped, 32-km-long space rock in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt. The belt is a ring of icy celestial bodies just outside Neptune's orbit.
TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia - Picture-postcard Tanjung Lesung was a cornerstone of Indonesia's bid to supercharge its tourism industry, boasting palm-fringed beaches, a towering volcano in the middle of turquoise waters and a rain forest sanctuary for endangered Javan rhinos.
MANILA, The Philippines - The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the central Philippines triggered by a tropical depression climbed to 85, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers reached cutoff communities.
MANILA, The Philippines - Philippine activists supporting victims of wartime sex slavery slammed Japan on Tuesday for protesting against the erection of a comfort woman statue in Laguna province, south of Manila.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ruling Bangladesh Awami League, which gained a stunning majority in the general election on Dec 30, will form its new cabinet before Jan 10, according to the party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader.
SEOUL - South Korean plaintiffs in a World War II forced labor court case against Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSM) have applied to seize some of Nippon Steel's Korean assets, their lawyers said on Wednesday.
China and the United States could be inching closer to calling off their trade feud, some analysts in both countries believe.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on Monday on plans for an immediate pullout of US troops from Syria, but said his drive to end American involvement in wars made him a "hero".
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers recovered six more bodies buried under tons of mud from a landslide that crashed onto a hilly village on Indonesia's main island of Java, bringing the death toll to 15, officials said on Tuesday.
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