South Sudan still faces enormous challenges in extending government's authority, addressing inter-communal clashes and human rights abuses, said a top UN envoy for the world's newest nation Monday.
An Indian policeman who served as a security guard for a legislator was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting two young people in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Washington on the security situation in Iraq.
Australia on Tuesday maintained a ban issued by the previous Labor government to bar China's telecom company Huawei from bidding for the country's high speed national Internet program, local media reported.
Egypt's prosecutor general Hesham Barakat ordered Tuesday four police officers to be remanded in custody over charges of killing 36 members of Muslim Brotherhood last August, state TV reported.
A Japanese government panel on security issues drafted Monday an outline of the countries new national security strategy with an eye on revising its arms embargo, according to local media.
An Egyptian court on Monday decided to adjourn the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak to Nov. 16 after three-day closed-door sessions to hear testimony of several former top security officials, state-TV reported.
Forensic investigators on Thursday recovered some body parts and three AK47 rifles from the Westgate Mall terror attack site.
At least 51 people were killed and about 270 injured in Egypt's clashes between security forces and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on Sunday, official news agency MENA reported, citing the health ministry.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday rejected concerns raised by the Japanese side on the so-called maritime security and China's maritime activities.
Kenyan police are questioning one suspect in connection to an attack on Wednesday night in Kenya's north region Waji where a civilian was killed and four others seriously injured.
Kenyan security forces continue its operation on Tuesday inside the mall where 62 people were killed by gunmen since Saturday, after more gunmen were killed as the siege of the mall enters the fourth day.
Kenya's security forces are moving in an apparently final assault to end the day-3 hostage crisis at Nairobi's renowned Westgate shopping mall.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday he has ordered two department-wide security reviews, after a deadly shooting this week in the Navy Yard in Washington.
Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe on Tuesday reconvened a panel of experts to continue discussions on lifting the nation's self-imposed constitutional ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called on his government to take a more proactive stance to ensure global peace and stability amid what he called a shifting geopolitical and security environment in East Asia.
At least nine people were killed on Wednesday in twin car bombing attacks on security personnel in Rafah city in Egypt's North Sinai, while the army poured more troops to quell the violence in the restive peninsula.
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