Indonesian police on Sunday said they had intercepted a wooden boat carrying around 80 asylum seekers from the Middle East, believed to be heading to Australia from the resort island of Bali.

Five people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said Sunday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.

Maoist rebels killed three policemen on Sunday during an overnight attack on a state-run broadcaster in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official told AFP.

Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that hem her in with 45,000 others — ethnic minorities from Myanmar and those like her who were born and raised in the Mae La refugee camp in neighboring Thailand.

Millions of Pakistanis turned out to vote in landmark elections on Saturday, defying deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state.

More than 30 foreign observers are currently in the country to monitor the Philippines' midterm elections.

Bangladeshi doctors treating a “miracle” survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing “great” and had been reunited with her family.

A former top South Korean presidential spokesman who was dismissed for what officials called a “disgraceful incident” while accompanying President Park Geun-hye on her visit to the United States denied Saturday media reports that he sexually molested a Korean-American woman during the trip.

A U.S. naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived off South Korea Saturday for drills, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.

For more than a decade, a sprawling wildlife refuge south of Bangkok has been rehabilitating and caring for animals abandoned or abused by their owners. The sanctuary, run by a nonprofit organization, has won international acclaim for its work, and volunteers come from around the world to help care for the hundreds of animals there.