Rescuers have discovered 16 bodies and are searching for five missing others after flash floods struck a tourist resort in Deli Serdang district of North Sumatra province on Sunday, top official at local disaster agency said Tuesday.
Canada's Public Health Agency on Monday confirmed the first positive case of sexually transmitted Zika virus in an Ontario resident whose partner had been infected by the virus after traveling to an affected country.
An undersea quake measuring at 5. 6 magnitude jolted eastern parts of Indonesia earlier Friday and was not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.
China on Friday dismissed the decision by ratings agency Standard Poor's (S P) to lower its outlook on China, and urged the agency to make "objective judgement."
The UN nuclear agency IAEA on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to comply with relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
All of Indonesia's early warning system buoys were damaged when a 7.8 magnitude quake jolted the western coast of Sumatra island on Wednesday night, hampering the authorities to precisely detect the emerge of tsunami, an official from the national disaster agency said Thursday.
The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has recently guided the test firing of newly developed anti-tank guided weapons, the official KCNA news agency reported Saturday.
The Philippines' death toll from typhoon Koppu reached 41 while 78 others were reported injured in the northern part of the country, the state disaster management agency said Thursday.
Taiwan recorded deflation for two consecutive months this year, a similar pattern to the annual price declines of 2009 during the global financial crisis, Taiwan's statistical agency said on Monday.
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to admit Brazil to the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a full member, the agency reported Tuesday.
China will establish a new anti-graft body to further strengthen pressure on corrupt officials, deputy Procurator-General Qiu Xueqiang has said.
The UN nuclear agency failed to make progress over the investigation of alleged Iran's nuclear weapon plan in the meetings with Tehran this week, the agency said Thursday in a press release.
Brazil's credit rating doesn't depend on who wins the presidential elections, but on the winner's ability to change the country's economic course, rating agency Moody's said Wednesday.
South Korea's national police agency on Wednesday established a cyber bureau to strengthen its national cyber security.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday nominated new prime minister and spy agency chief, presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.
Emergency services rushed more than 1600 people to hospital suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion due to a week of unseasonably hot weather through June 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
Emergency services rushed more than 1600 people to hospital suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion due to a week of unseasonably hot weather through June 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
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