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A South Korean official says the country's president has visited islets that Japan claims as its own. The move likely will deepen animosity between the rivals.

Vietnamese police have swooped in and crushed an anti-China rally, forcing dozens of protesters who refused to stop chanting onto two buses that were driven away.

Officials say the exchange took place shortly in an area of ocean that was the scene of November's lethal exchange between the two sides -- when North Korean shelling killed four people on Yeonpyeong Island.

Fighting resumes along the border between Thailand and Cambodia, a day after clashes in which at least six soldiers were killed.

North Korea fired more artillery near its disputed western sea border with South Korea on Thursday, a day after it lobbed dozens of shells during military exercises that prompted the South to respond with warning shots....