Thailand's massive anti-government protests might possibly end up in a fresh military coup shortly, according to noted scholar Pavin Chachavalpongpun at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Newly elected Maldives President Abdulla Yameen is attempting to put his country's finances in order by reducing the salaries of State run organizations as the Indian Ocean group of islands attempts to cope with high levels of debt.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Romania and the China-Central and Eastern Europe leaders' meeting will further bolster the cooperative ties between the two sides.
The Egyptian popular protests that led to the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi were not "a photoshop uprising" and the video footage of the protests were not fabricated as the Muslim Brotherhood claims.
The ongoing saga of U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden is just a pretext of the cooling relations between Russia and the United States. The case is just an excuse, a lack of real progress on core bilateral issues is among underlying reasons behind Obama's decision to cancel a planned summit meeting with his Russian counterpart Putin.
The head of a 50-member electoral observation mission in Mali sent by the African union (AU) has called on Malians to turn out "massively" in Sunday's presidential run-off.
Brazilian authorities have started to respond to the call of the streets but need to do more. The situation, which has seen more than a million people take to the streets in mass protests and sometimes violent clashes, is evolving as authorities have started to respond to the voice of the street.
The two-state solution, which has received considerable support among the Israelis, remains the best choice for Israel and the Palestinians to solve their decades- old conflict, Israeli President Shimon Peres told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The world is bracing for a population explosion but few have any solutions. The global population, currently 7.2 billion, barreling past 8.1 billion by 2025, to 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, and then almost 11 billion by 2100.
Given the economic difficulties facing all the members of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, their influence has been "considerably" diminished as a result, says Irish political observer Brendan Halligan.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he is looking forward to meeting members of the new Chinese leadership and he hopes to see "an even bigger and stronger partnership" between the United Nations and China.
The recent U.S.-Russian initiative on the Syria issue and the agreement reached by the two powers on the necessity of an international conference on Syria increase chances for a peaceful resolution in the conflict-stricken country, political experts said.
Some states pressure Egypt not to establish relations with Iran, but after the Egyptian uprising, Egypt does not accept dictations, Ambassador Mojtaba Amani, head of the Iranian Interests Office in Cairo said.
Head of Islamic Hamas movement's government accused Israel not committed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, which was reached in November and it is subjected to collapse. Zaza said the Israeli government regretted pledges it had made when the ceasefire that Egypt had sponsored was reached on Nov. 21, mainly easing more than five years of an Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007.
Little can be done to stop horrific U.S. mass shootings such as last week's killing of 20 children ages 6 and 7, said a leading U.S. expert who consults law enforcement on mass murder cases.
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Thursday in Hong Kong that the changes in the way human inhabit the planet have given microbes multiple opportunities to exploit, resulting in new diseases emerging at at alarming rate.
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