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Thousands of Indonesians have joined interfaith rallies around the country organized by the military in an attempt to demonstrate national unity as religious and racial tensions divide the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Money had already been tight as food and electricity bills climbed for weeks.

Rowdy protesters demonstrating against Australia's treatment of asylum seekers have caused a disruption in Parliament, with security officers finally wresting them out.

The capital of Muslim-majority Indonesia is on edge ahead of what is expected to be a second massive protest by conservative Muslims against its Christian governor and no group more so than its Chinese minority.

Thousands squeezed into Chapeco's cathedral and even more packed a stadium to mourn the death of 71 people in a plane crash, 19 of them members of the Chapecoense club who had been on the brink of soccer greatness.

Police say a soldier has been killed by an explosive device near an army checkpoint in southern Thailand.

Repeating their stance from last year's annulled election, Haitian voters appear to have reached outside the intrigue-heavy political class to pick a first-time candidate to steer the deeply divided country as president for the next five years.

Fifteen current and former Air France workers are awaiting a verdict in a case of alleged violence during a union protest last year at the airline's headquarters that saw two company executives flee over a fence with their shirts ripped off.

Two separatist Hong Kong lawmakers lost their appeal Wednesday against a ruling disqualifying them from office because they altered their oaths with an anti-China insult.

Nepal's government has proposed amending its new constitution to meet the demands of ethnic group whose protests for bigger federal state last year left more than 50 people dead.

South Korean lawmakers could vote this Friday on a bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye.

An Australian theme park plans to reopen six weeks after four people died in a ride malfunction.

Mexican prosecutors have for the first time brought charges against a Roman Catholic priest for allegedly meddling in politics.

Malaysia has deported 74 telecom fraud suspects — including 21 from Taiwan — to China, in the latest instance of Southeast Asian countries deferring to China's position on the self-governing island.

Mexican airline Interjet has launched a campaign dubbed #BuscandoMika (FindMika) after an 8-year-old mixed-breed female dog apparently escaped her cage and got lost at Mexico City's airport.

Mexico's government said Tuesday it has found about 421 million pesos ($20.5 million) linked to the former governor of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz who is sought in a corruption case.

Dipping a brass-tipped tool into a vat of liquid wax, Pan Xiu-ying painstakingly traces an intricate design onto a white cloth.

Six more people were detained by Chinese authorities over the deaths of 74 workers in the collapse of a platform in a cooling tower at a power plant, one of the worst work safety disasters in China in recent years.

Rescuers in northeastern China searched Wednesday for 22 miners trapped underground in the latest accident to befall China's mining industry.

A spokeswoman for a Polish mining corporation says that one miner has died and seven are missing underground following a strong tremor that caused a cave-in at a copper mine in southwestern Poland.