News Analysis: U.S. troops advised no to visit Japanese wartime shrine
Top Thai ruler Gen. Prayuth Chan- ocha, who has been unanimously chosen Thursday as Thailand's 29th prime minister by the interim legislature, will likely stay in power for only a year during which time the reforms in government that the military has initiated would have taken effect.
Over 191,000 people were reportedly killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2014, according to an updated United Nations study released on Friday.
Testimonies gathered from civilians who fled the recent violence in Sinjar in north Iraq " have revealed appalling accounts of killing, abduction and sexual violence perpetrated against women and children," a UN spokesman said here Thursday, citing information from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Italy's finance minister said Tuesday he is convinced that compatriot, European Central Bank governor Mario Draghi, will begin taking steps to combat the risk of deflation -- a risky prospect all across the euro-zone but an especially dangerous one in heavily indebted countries like Italy.
U.S. air power helped Kurdish fighters retake a major Iraqi dam from terrorists over the weekend, but the Islamic radicals are still a formidable force in the embattled nation, and the United States may well stay in the fight for the foreseeable future, experts say.
The Taliban militants, who vowed to regain power in Afghanistan, have intensified their activities since May and have launched massive offensives, a development viewed by local analysts here as a result of the government's soft stance against them.
Hillary Clinton, U.S. President Barack Obama's secretary of state during his first term, has indicated her foreign policy would be more muscular than that of the current administration, and some experts said Clinton's stance most closely resembles that of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has rejected his successor appointed by newly- elected President Fouad Massoum in his last attempt to cling to power, a move that analysts say is plunging the war-torn country into political chaos.
U.S. air campaign in Iraq is expected to continue for some time, with no endgame in sight as Iraq battles advancing Islamic extremists.
While militants of the Islamic State (IS) are making fresh gains in northern Iraq, Baghdad was plunged into political infighting after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced his decision late Sunday to sue President Fuad Masum for alleged constitutional violation.
The green on blue attacks or insider offensive committed by Afghans in military uniform against NATO- led forces, may demonstrate security lapses and Taliban's penetration into the ranks of security forces.
Recognizing that there were other equally qualified South Africans who were capable of doing what Mandela was doing, he relinquished power after just one-term in office.
The international community should help more than one billion women and girls across the world who rely on dark nights and quiet moments to relieve themselves because they "do not have access to sanitation."
The OPCW-UN joint mission has made "significantly good progress" in eliminating Syria's chemical stockpiles.
China-U.S. relations have kept moving forward since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1979, said a Chinese envoy on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the diplomatic relationship.
Hollywood writer and director Chris D. Nebe's documentary about the Diaoyu Islands made its debut in Beijing on Sunday after its first screening earlier this month in Los Angeles.
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