AFP, BANGKOK:  Thailand's junta Tuesday said it planned to create a new military unit to fight online dissent, as Internet freedom campaigners said they were training hundreds of volunteers for a "cyber war" against censorship.The proposed unit follows controversial plans for a single…

AFP, DONETSK: Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian insurgents said Tuesday they had begun withdrawing tanks and smaller weapons from the frontline splitting the devastated Donetsk region in the ex-Soviet state's eastern war zone. The pullback follows similar arms movements in the smaller separatist…

AFP, OTTAWA: Canada's Liberals won a landslide general election victory Monday, with young leader Justin Trudeau ending a decade of Conservative rule with pledges to raise taxes on the rich in a struggling economy. For many Canadians the vote was a referendum on outgoing premier Stephen Harper's…

AFP, SEOUL: Nearly 400 mostly elderly and frail South Koreans held a tearful, emotionally fraught reunion Tuesday with family members in North Korea, more than 60 years after they were separated by the Korean War. After crossing the heavily militarised border in a convoy of buses, the families from…