UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged all the parties in Egypt "to act with maximum restraint" and called on "the interim authorities to ensure law and order along with guaranteeing the safety and security of all Egyptians."
Russia has not received extradition request for fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden from the United States, the Justice Ministry said Thursday.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday announced that Spain would observe three days of mourning for the victims of the train accident in the country's northwestern region of Galicia which has claimed at least 80 lives.
A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday approved an amendment to State Department funding bill aimed at pressuring Russia and other countries against giving asylum to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program leaker.
U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act that would restrict surveillance of the American public by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Speculation that fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden had been granted approval to leave Sheremetyevo airport's transit zone was quashed by his lawyer Wednesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy, the elder daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, as the ambassador to Japan.
Two rockets were fired towards southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, no casualties or damages were reported yet, police sources confirmed to Xinhua.
Up to 60 people have been killed and around 125 injured after a train derailed outside the city of Santiago de Compostela in the region of Galicia in northwestern Spain on Wednesday evening.
Al-Qaida militant group in Iraq on Tuesday claimed responsibility for recent coordinated attacks on two prisons near the capital Baghdad, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
Iran will not accept nuclear obligations beyond the directives of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
The European Union (EU) governments on Monday decided to blacklist the armed wing of Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah as a terrorist group, a move was slammed by Lebanese officials who urged the union to reconsider its decision.
Two divisions of the Orenburg Missile Army have started snap combat readiness drills in Russia's Urals region, the Defense Ministry said.
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge Kate gave birth to a boy on Monday afternoon.
The German government announced a plan on Monday to look into the ties between its secret services and the United States intelligence agencies following mounting pressure as media reported over the weekend that Germany's intelligence services used a spying program of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has denied allegations he has shown no interest in the fate of the U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Air traffic was shut down at New York's LaGuardia Airport as the landing gear under the nose of a passenger plane collapsed after landing early Monday evening.
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