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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over an April protest demanding fair elections, his lawyer said Monday, accusing the government of a fresh bid to remove Anwar from politics.

Lady Gaga is set to rock the Philippines later Monday amid planned street protests and with censors in the house on orders to report any hint of blasphemy, devil worship, nudity or lewd conduct.

Two Indian Premier League cricket players were among nearly 100 people detained for drugs tests after police busted a party, reports said Monday, in the latest controversy to hit the tournament.

Prosecutors said Monday that an Indonesian militant known as the "Demolition Man" should spend the rest of his life in prison for helping to build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

All 29 Chinese fishermen reportedly kidnapped by armed North Koreans earlier this month have returned home after they were freed at the weekend, the state Xinhua news agency said.

The remains of 45 victims killed in a Russian plane crash in Indonesia have been identified, a police forensics official said Monday, as experts probe why the plane slammed into a dormant volcano.

Food shortages have worsened even in North Korea's southwestern rice belt and some residents have starved to death there, a Seoul-based online newspaper said Monday.

Millions of sky-gazers got the spectacle of a lifetime as a "ring of fire" solar eclipse crossed the Pacific from Asia to the United States, where it triggered whoops at festive viewing parties.