NKOREA-KIM'S ARMY — Just how strong is Kim Jong Un's army? A look, based on what AP reporters and photographers have seen on the ground and the latest report to the U.S. Congress by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
MALAYSIA-POLITICS — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak rejects a new report that a state investment fund likely deposited close to a billion dollars in his personal bank accounts.
PAKISTAN — Tens of thousands of Pakistanis converge on a city near the country's capital to attend the funeral of a police officer executed the day before for assassinating a secular governor in 2011 over accusations of blasphemy.
AFGHANISTAN — An Afghan official says a policeman has fatally dead four of his colleagues at a checkpoint on a remote stretch of a major southern highway.
CHINA-PASTOR CHARGED — A leading pastor in an eastern Chinese province where authorities have been cracking down on churches is barred from the pulpit and removed as head of the provincial state-sanctioned Protestant church association.
HONG KONG-MISSING BOOKSELLERS — A Hong Kong bookseller missing for two months has reappeared in an interview with Chinese media, insisting he wasn't abducted and instead crossed illegally into mainland China to help authorities with an investigation.
INDIA-MAOIST REBELS — Eight Maoist rebels, five of them women, are killed in a fierce gunbattle with police in southeastern India, police say.
PHILIPPINES-MYSTERY SAILOR — Philippine police say they are trying to determine the identity and cause of death of a man found dead while sitting slumped in a yacht that was drifting in the Pacific Ocean and which was apparently owned by a German adventurer.
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