JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities have closed access to a national park on Java Island as firefighters battle a wildfire raging there for nearly a week.

NAKHON PHANOM - Overnight downpours left submerged roads and inundated homes and businesses in this northeastern border province on Sunday, prompting emergency drainage operations.

TOKYO - As Japan marks the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombs, its leaders are pushing for a renewed debate on nuclear weapons in a challenge to the nation's long-time pacifist stance.

CHONGQING, China - Zhang Xue wept with joy and furiously waved a Chinese flag as he watched his company's superbike scream across the finish line four seconds ahead of competitors in only its third world championship race.

DUBAI - Iran set preconditions on Saturday for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages, complicating a potential deal to open the waterway essential to the world economy.

NAKHON PHANOM - Overnight downpours left submerged roads and inundated homes and businesses in this northeastern border province on Sunday, prompting emergency drainage operations.

DUBAI - Iran set preconditions on Saturday for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages, complicating a potential deal to open the waterway essential to the world economy.

A series of grisly murders has reignited one of the country's most enduring and divisive public debates: whether the death penalty remains necessary to protect society or whether the justice system should instead focus on improving law enforcement, r...

SONGKHLA - The management of Hatyaiwittayalai secondary school in this southern province announced it will close its gates on Monday and Tuesday and provide online lessons after a sacked foreign teacher posted a firearm threat.

The government has widened its local-government exam fraud probe, with the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) tracing the financial transactions of more than 200 people involved in the network.