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South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won bows to the nation after offering his resignation at the Central Government Complex in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Chung offered to resign Sunday over the government's handling of a deadly ferry sinking, blaming "deep-rooted evils" and societal irregularities for a tragedy that has left more than 300 people dead or missing and led to widespread shame, fury and finger-pointing. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT

SKorean PM offers to resign over ferry sinking

HYUNG-JIN KIMYOUKYUNG LEE · April 27, 2014 5:23 am

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak as he arrives at his residence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Opening the first visit to Malaysia by a U.S. president in nearly half a century, Obama is holding economic and security talks with Razak, who leads a southeast Asian nation with an important role in Obama's efforts to forge deeper ties with the region. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

In Asia, Obama carefully calibrates China message

Julie Pace · April 27, 2014 4:04 am

Bala Chandran Tharman, right, deputy chief of mission at the Malaysian embassy in Beijing walks away while relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines MH370 ask him a question during a briefing at a hotel in Beijing, China, Saturday, April 26, 2014. A number of Chinese relatives still aren't accepting the theory that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean. They're insisting that Malaysian officials haven't told them the truth. The Chinese characters on the wall reads: "Meet the commitment." (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Robot sub to extend search area for missing plane

Rod McGuirk · April 27, 2014 3:05 am

Ukrainian government troops atop of their armored personal carrier rolls on a country road outside the town of Svyitohirsk near to Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Ukrainian authorities are undertaking a security operation to liberate the nearby city of Slovyansk, which is currently controlled by an armed pro-Russian insurgency.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Sanctions loom as observers held in east Ukraine

Peter Leonard · April 27, 2014 2:34 am

Ethnic clash in South Sudan kills at least 5

Washington Examiner · April 27, 2014 1:56 am

South Korea’s prime minister offers to resign over deadly ferry sinking

Washington Examiner · April 27, 2014 1:29 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 23, 2014, police officers and forensics look at the body of British citizen Henry Miller, 19, on a road outside Mocoa, in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo. Miller died after he drank a hallucinogen during a tribal ritual, his body left by the side of the road by two frightened young local men, said Saturday local police commander Ricardo Suarez. (AP Photo/Jose Horacio Villarreal)

UK teen dies in Colombia after taking hallucinogen

Libardo Cardona · April 27, 2014 12:34 am

Ex-colonel who admitted torture killed in Brazil

Washington Examiner · April 27, 2014 12:28 am

A students is arrested by Bolivarian national Guards during clashes at an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Student organizers at the last minute decided against marching downtown to avoid a confrontation with security forces in the government-controlled district. Instead they concentrated in the wealthier, eastern neighborhoods that have been the hotbed of unrest since February. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Scores of Venezuelans march against government

JORGE RUEDAJOSHUA GOODMAN · April 27, 2014 12:04 am

5 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash

KAY JOHNSONRAHIM FAIEZ · April 26, 2014 11:14 pm

Priests sing and dance in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Pilgrims and faithful are gathering in Rome to attend Sunday's ceremony at the Vatican where Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Benedict to join in double sainthood ceremony

Frances D'emilio · April 26, 2014 9:22 pm

Joanna Osowska, 23, from Poland, sits in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Pilgrims and faithful are gathering in Rome to attend Sunday's ceremony at the Vatican where Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Joyful pilgrims pour into Rome for saint ceremony

Washington Examiner · April 26, 2014 6:55 pm