The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution urging Myanmar to grant citizenship and equal rights to the country's beleaguered Rohingya minority.
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Indonesian officials have recovered at least 40 bodies from the sea near the wreckage of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed during a storm Sunday.
Palestinians plan to submit a final draft of a statehood resolution to the United Nations on Monday calling for a peace deal with Israel within a year and an end to occupation of Palestinian territories by the end of 2017, officials said.
An aerial and maritime search around southern Borneo for a passenger jet with 162 people on board has been suspended for the night. The Airbus A320 disappeared Sunday morning, Asia time, on a flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore. Most of those on board were Indonesians.
An aerial and maritime search around southern Borneo for a passenger jet with 162 people on board has been suspended for the night. The Airbus A320 disappeared Sunday morning, Asia time, on a flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore. Most of those on board were Indonesians.
Indonesia called off until first light a search for an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board that went missing on Sunday after pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from Indonesia's Surabaya city to Singapore.
Syria said on Saturday it was willing to participate in "preliminary consultations" in Moscow aimed at restarting talks next year to end its civil war but the Western-backed opposition dismissed the initiative.
JAKARTA—
An AirAsia flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday, Indonesian media said, citing a Transport Ministry official.
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