Myanmar's parliament has approved a budget of about $15 million for the construction of a fence and related projects along the border with Bangladesh in Rakhine state, from which about 700,000 members of its persecuted ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority have fled violence since last August....

President Donald Trump said Friday he is launching the "largest-ever" set of sanctions against North Korea. "Today I am announcing that we are launching the largest-ever set of new sanctions on the North Korean regime," Trump said in excerpts of a speech he was to deliver later on...

The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told locals in the village of Dapchi Thursday that 76 of their schoolgirls who were reported to have been rescued from militant Boko Haram kidnappers were in fact still missing. The state government Wednesday said the schoolgirls had been rescued by...

More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world. Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary...