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Korea's Si Woo Kim plays a tee shot from the 12th hole during a practice round of the men's golf event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, Japan, (AP Photo/Matt York)
For South Koreans, Olympic medal is only way out of military

By Doug Ferguson Jul. 28, 2021 05:08 AM EDT

South Korean qualifiers choose Olympics over British Open

Jul. 02, 2021 02:08 PM EDT
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Sungjae Im and Siwoo Kim have withdrawn from the British Open so they can focus on preparations for the Tokyo Olympics at the end...

A voter casts his ballot in the Constitutional Convention election to select assembly members that will draft a new constitution, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, May 15, 2021. The face of a new Chile begins taking shape this weekend as the South American country elects 155 people to draft a constitution to replace one that has governed it since being imposed during a military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chileans choose assembly to draft a new constitution

By Eva Vergara And Patricia Luna May. 15, 2021 12:00 AM EDT

Family members place a cloth on the body of Rajendra Prasad Mishra, 62, who died due to COVID-19 before cremation by the River Ganges in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
The Latest: France welcomes EU curb on AstraZeneca vaccine

By The Associated Press May. 09, 2021 07:17 AM EDT

A health worker takes photograph of a person holding a document confirming he has tested positive for COVID-19 at a government run hospital in Gauhati, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Infections have swelled in India since February in a disastrous turn blamed on more contagious variants as well as government decisions to allow massive crowds to gather for religious festivals and political rallies. ​(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
The Latest: Utility regulator shares discredited theories

By The Associated Press May. 08, 2021 07:39 AM EDT

Faeza Satouf looks at a photo of her graduation day on her phone during an interview in Nivaa, Denmark, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The 25-year-old Syrian refugee had fled the civil war with her family in an all-too-familiar journey across the sea to Europe, where they finally arrived in Denmark and were granted asylum in 2015. Yet six later years, she has been told she has to go back — alone, and soon. (AP Photo/David Keyton)
Denmark tells some Syrians to leave, separating families

By David Keyton Apr. 23, 2021 02:19 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 file photo, police officers detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia. A prison sentence for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a sweeping crackdown on protesters demanding his release reflect the Kremlin’s steely determination to fend off threats to its political monopoly at any cost. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
EXPLAINER: How Russia has tried to stem pro-Navalny protests

By Vladimir Isachenkov Feb. 03, 2021 11:33 AM EST

A worker from Top Glove walks outside Top Glove factory in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Malaysia's Top Glove Corp., the world's largest maker of rubber gloves, says it expects a two to four-week delay in deliveries after more than 2,000 workers at its factories were infected by the coronavirus, raising the possibility of supply disruptions during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Asia Today: 60 new army recruits infected in South Korea

Nov. 25, 2020 12:15 AM EST

Voters wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up to cast their ballots at a polling station near Shwedagon pagoda Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. Voting was underway in Myanmar's elections on Sunday, with the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favored to retain power it had wrestled from the powerful military five years ago. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote with weak opposition

By Aung Naing Soe And Pyae Sone Win Nov. 07, 2020 07:00 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, pro-democracy demonstrators march to the German Embassy in central Bangkok, Thailand. Fed up with an archaic educational system and enraged by the military's efforts to keep control over their nation, a student-led campaign has shaken Thailand’s ruling establishment with the most significant campaign for political change in years. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
Thai student-protesters aim for ambitious political change

By Grant Peck And Chris Blake Oct. 27, 2020 11:42 AM EDT

Bawi UK, 22, right, chats with his brother, Leng Nung, 20, in the apartment they share in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. UK was a small child when his parents fled Myanmar, leaving him and his siblings to be cared for by their maternal grandmother. UK said the family suffered discrimination as Christians in a predominantly Buddhist nation. The military government was also trying to forcibly conscript his father. "To run for office, you had to be a Buddhist; to rent a house, you had to be Buddhist," said UK, a social work student at Rhode Island College and a youth leader at the Refugee Dream Center, an advocacy organization in Providence. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
New US citizen refugees excited for first presidential vote

By Anita Snow Sep. 28, 2020 05:00 AM EDT

21 year old Swiss Ice Hockey player Nico Hischier, center at NHL club New Jersey Devils, placed the name tag onto the jacket of the Swiss army uniform he was just issued in Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Hischier completes part of his mandatory army service for elite athletes with an 18 week recruit training. (Alessandro della Valle/Keystone via AP)
Devils Nico Hischier spending NHL offseason in Swiss army

By Tom Canavan Jun. 20, 2020 01:43 PM EDT

Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min celebrates after the English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa at Villa Park, Birmingham, England, Sunday Feb. 16, 2020. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
Son to undertake military service during EPL suspension

Apr. 06, 2020 11:26 AM EDT