At Giza's poor neighborhood of Boulak el-Dakrour, a gathering of residents was held outside a small home at a narrow street to offer the condolences over the death of Ahmed Owais, a driver working for a tour company, who went to the Western Desert with a group of Mexican tourists but never came back.
Egypt's government has pledged a "transparent investigation" into a mistaken military airstrike on a tourist convoy that left eight Mexicans dead over the weekend, Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry (SRE) said Wednesday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al- Sisi made a phone call and offered condolences to his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday over the accidental death of Mexican tourists in the Western Desert, official MENA news agency reported.
The brutal murder of two elderly people allegedly perpetrated by migrant in southern Italy sparked anger against the government for what was perceived as a mismanagement of the migration crisis, local media reported on Monday.
Chinese legislators are working on a law specifically for domestic violence that highlights prevention and introduces habeas corpus, bringing traditionally silent victims under protection of law.
As the traffic at an intersection near a blasted shrine in downtown Bangkok opened Tuesday, life got normalized one day after a deadly explosion hit the city.
More than 700 people gathered at a school in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, on Tuesday to mourn victims of last week's landslide.
The first shipment of medical supplies to treat the victims of the Taiwan water park blaze left Beijing by air Tuesday.
Five Hong Kong women are being treated in hospital in Taiwan after they were caught up in the weekend's fire at a water park.
The number of sexual offences against children recorded by police in England and Wales soared by more than a third last year, figures released Wednesday by a leading children's charity showed.
The father of a teacher kept apologizing, sobbingly saying his dead daughter should have saved more students. Another father of a student was desperately fighting back his tears, saying he still feels his daughter is alive. The father of a surviving student burst into tears when he said some attempted to commit suicide from a sense of guilt that they alone survived.
South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution that calls for the salvaging of the sunken Sewol ferry, which has been demanded by family members of the victims and survivors.
The public and experts are calling for more protection for women after a report showed that they were victims in an increasing percentage of crimes.
A memorial for the victims of Nanjing Massacre was held in the city on Monday, as a prelude for the upcoming first national memorial day.
A group of United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to support the fullest possible release of the report on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogation practices conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
At least 30 members of the Islamic Shiite group have been confirmed dead in Monday's attack by suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber while on a procession in Potiskum in Nigeria's northeast Yobe State.
Germany unveils memorial to mentally ill, disabled Nazi victims
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