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Critics slam Seoul for denying refugee status to YemenisSouth Korean progressives are criticizing Seoul's government for rejecting refugee status to nearly 400 asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen whose arrival in the southern resort island of Jeju earlier this year triggered an anti-immigration uproar

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Taliban target NATO convoy, killing 2 Afghan civiliansTaliban target NATO convoy near the Afghan capital, killing at least 2 civilians; 3 NATO troops among the wounded

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Candidate: Elections key to countering Afghan conservatismAfghan woman candidate: Saturday's elections key to countering conservatism that stifles opportunities for women

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China orders evacuations after landslide blocks Tibet riverChina says around 6,000 people have been evacuated following a landslide in Tibet that blocked the flow of one of the region's key rivers

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Pakistan launches search for 11 abducted Iranian guardsPakistan has told Tehran that its security forces are trying to trace 11 members of Iran's border force who were abducted by militants

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, left, and Vietnam's Defense Minister Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich leave a meeting room in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP)

US officials optimistic on US-China military tiesAfter a rocky few months, Pentagon officials say they sense that relations with the Chinese military may be stabilizing

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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, port workers chat each other next to a pile of cargo at a container terminal in Tokyo. Japan has recorded a trade surplus for September of 139.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion), but exports fell 1.2 percent from the previous year, marking the first decline since 2016, after several natural disasters. September imports rose 7 percent, according to data released Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, by the Ministry of Finance. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan exports fall in September, first decline since 2016Japan exports slip in September as trade tensions weigh on business

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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, center, a prominent Vietnamese blogger, stands trial in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. Vietnam has freed a well-known blogger after two years in prison on the condition that she leave for the United States. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known as “Mother Mushroom,” was arrested in October 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of defaming the Communist government. (Tien Minh/ Vietnam News Agency via AP, File)

Vietnam frees popular blogger on condition she leave for USVietnam has freed a well-known blogger, "Mother Mushroom," after two years in prison on the condition that she leave for the United States

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FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2017 file photo, Indian Junior Foreign Minister M.J. Akbar, center, hugs Finland's Foreign Minister Timo Soini in New Delhi, India. Akbar has resigned amid accusations by at least 15 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as a news editor. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian gov't minister resigns, denies sex harassment claimsIndia's junior external affairs minister resigns after 20 women accused him of sexually harassing them during his previous media career; he says he will challenge 'false allegations' against him

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Police chase away protestors who tried to stop women of menstruating age from going to the Sabarimala temple at Nilackal, a base camp on way to the mountain shrine in Kerala, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The historic mountain shrine, one of the largest Hindu pilgrimage centers in the world is set to open its doors to females of menstruating age following a ruling by the country's top court. Police arrested some protesters when they tried to block the path of some females. (AP Photo)

Protesters stop females ages 10 to 50 from entering templeAn Indian temple and one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage centers has opened its doors to females of menstruating age to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, but hundreds of protesters fought with police to keep women out

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Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov applauds as he attends an opening ceremony of a chemical plant that cost $3.4 billion to build, its latest effort to diversity its gas-dependent economy, in Kiyanly, Turkmenistan, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The Turkmen government took on 15 percent of the plant's financing with the rest of the investments coming from Japan's Toyo Engineering and South Korea's LG International and Hyundai Engineering. (AP Photo/Alexander Vershinin)

Turkmenistan opens $3.4 billion chemical plantThe Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has opened a $3.4 billion chemicals plants in its latest effort to diversity its gas-dependent economy

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Pakistani police: Suspected drug dealer's sons kill reporterPakistani police: Sons of suspected drug dealer kill local reporter who wrote about their father's case

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Afghan National army soldiers search a car covered with campaign posters for Pacha Ahmadzai, a candidate in parliamentary elections scheduled for Oct. 20, at the Independent Election Commission compound, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Bomb kills Afghan candidate as Taliban vow to attack pollsBomb kills Afghan parliamentary candidate as Taliban warn teachers, students not to take part in elections on Saturday

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Kashmiri women look towards the site of a gunbattle from the window of their house in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two suspected rebels and a counterinsurgency police official. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Fighting in Kashmir city leaves 3 combatants, civilian deadAnti-India protests and clashes have erupted in the main city in disputed Kashmir shortly after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two rebels, a civilian and a counterinsurgency police official

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Key allies quit Duterte Cabinet to run in electionsClose allies of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have resigned from his Cabinet to run in elections next year that will test his popularity and could determine his future political influence

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This undated photo provided by the North Carolina Highway Patrol shows Trooper Kevin Conner. Authorities say Conner was shot and killed by a driver during a traffic stop early Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Columbus County, N.C. (North Carolina Department of Public Safety via AP)

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Manny Machado watches during the eighth inning of Game 4 of the National League Championship Series baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae Hong)

AP Entertainment HeadlinesPuppeteer who played Big Bird on 'Sesame Street' retiring

FILE- In this April 10, 2008, file photo Lynn Finkel, stage manager for "Sesame Street" slates a taping with Big Bird in New York. The puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring after nearly 50 years on the show. Caroll Spinney tells the New York Times that Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, will be his last day on the program, which he joined from the start in 1969. In addition to Big Bird, the 84-year-old was also Oscar the Grouch. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

AP Online - International NewsChina says interning Muslims brings them into 'modern' world

FILE - In this March 12, 2017, file photo, Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaks on the sideline of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. The senior Chinese official is describing the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims in the country’s far west as a system of training centers that saves Muslims from religious extremism by teaching them to speak Mandarin and accept modern science. It was a rare instance of the ruling Communist Party publicly detailing its vision of what the extrajudicial detention of an estimated 1 million ethnic minority Uighur and Kazakh Muslims is setting out to achieve. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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