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S. Korean activists clash with police over anti-Kim balloons

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ??" South Korean activists say they clashed with police while launching balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda materials across the North Korean border, ignoring their government's plea to stop such activities since the North has threatened to respond with "deadly" retaliation.

Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector-turned-activist, said he his group had launched about eight balloons from an area in the South Korean border town of Paju Saturday night when police officers arrived at the scene and prevented them from sending their 12 remaining balloons... Read More

Rebel violence in eastern Congo causes hunger to soar

NYIRAGONGO, Congo (AP) ??" The last thing Pasika Bagerimana remembers before her sons died were their cries of hunger. But the 25-year-old mother had nothing to feed them.

"'Mom, I need to eat. Can you give me food?'" they pleaded with her. Daniel, 2, and Bonane, 5, died just weeks apart in July after fleeing violence in their village in eastern Congo between M23 rebels and government forces.

Bagerimana worries her remaining two children might be next. "Hunger is killing people," she says, seated in a cramped room she now shares with dozens of other displaced people. Read More

Famed US extreme skier gets traditional Nepalese funeral

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ??" A famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world's tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at a Sherpa cremation ground as Buddhist monks officiated over a ceremony attended by family, friends and government officials.

Hilaree Nelson, 49, fell off the 8,163-meter (26,775-foot) summit of the world's eighth-highest mountain. Mount Manaslu, last week while skiing down with her partner, Jim Morrison.

Nelson's body was taken to the Sherpa cremation grounds in Kathmandu from a... Read More

174 dead after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match

MALANG, Indonesia (AP) ??" The death toll from panic at an Indonesian soccer match climbed to 174, most of whom trampled to death after police fired tear gas to dispel riots Saturday, making it one of the deadliest sports events in the world.

Riots broke out after the game ended Saturday evening with host Arema FC of East Java's Malang city losing to Persebaya of Surabaya 3-2.

Disappointed after their team's loss, thousands of supporters of Arema, known as "Aremania," reacted by throwing bottles and other objects at players and soccer officials. Fans flooded the... Read More

UN, abuse survivor groups seek Vatican investigation of Belo

VATICAN CITY (AP) ??" The United Nations and advocacy groups for survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging Pope Francis to authorize a full investigation of Catholic Church archives on three continents to ascertain who knew what and when about sexual abuse by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the revered independence hero of East Timor.

The Vatican's sex abuse office said last week that it had secretly sanctioned Belo in 2020, forbidding him from having contact with minors or with East Timor, based on misconduct allegations that arrived in Rome in 2019. That... Read More

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S. Korean activists clash with police over anti-Kim balloons

Rebel violence in eastern Congo causes hunger to soar

Famed US extreme skier gets traditional Nepalese funeral

174 dead after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match

UN, abuse survivor groups seek Vatican investigation of Belo

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