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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, May 2

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Australian parents who lost their three children in the MH17 disaster have become the first in Australia to settle with Malaysia Airlines over the crash of the flight in Ukraine, local media revealed on Tuesday.

Anthony and Marite Maslin from Perth in Western Australia lost three children in the tragedy as they were travelling with their grandfather from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when the plane crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board. (Australia-MH17)

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SEOUL -- The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Tuesday that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, which was deployed last week in southeast South Korea, is "operational."

USFK spokesperson Rob Manning said the USFK "confirms the THAAD system is operational." (South Korea-U.S.-THAAD)

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TOKYO -- A car crashed through a hospital window and into the lobby of the hospital in Oita Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Tuesday, leaving 13 people injured, local police said.

According to the police, no one has died as a result of the crash and the 13 injured have been receiving treatment at the site of the hospital for light wounds, local media reported. (Japan-Car accident)

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DHAKA -- The bodies of five people, including two children, were found Tuesday, two days after a boat sank in the mighty river of Padma in western Bangladesh.

A fire service official at Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of capital Dhaka, told Xinhua that a boat with six people sank into the Padma river late Sunday due to rough weather. (Bangladesh-Boat tragedy) Endit