SEOUL / AP Carrying flags and candles and cheering jubilantly, tens of thousands of South Koreans occupied a boulevard in downtown Seoul on Saturday to celebrate the ouster of President Park Geun-hye, a day after the Constitutional Court removed her from office over a corruption scandal that consumed the nation for months. Meanwhile, in a nearby grass square, a ...

  KUALA LUMPUR / AP Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Saturday that the government hopes to begin formal talks with North Korea in the “next few days” on solving a diplomatic dispute that has seen the two countries bar each other’s citizens from leaving. The dispute stems from the mysterious poisoning death of the estranged half brother of North Korean ...

  ISTANBUL / AP Turkey’s coast guard says it has prevented 48 Syrian migrants from reaching Greece. In a statement on its official website, the Turkish Coast Guard said the migrants on a rubber dinghy were stopped after a tip. Aerial footage accompanying the statement shows the dinghy at sea followed by the rescue operation off the coast of Kusadasi ...