The Australian Federal Police have admitted they are struggling to deal with the exodus of young Australians leaving the country to fight for the Islamic State (IS) terror organisation.
China's top legislature on Thursday ratified two new national days, one to mark victory of the war against Japanese aggression and the other to commemorate victims in the Nanjing Massacre.
Beijing on Monday maintained its orange pollution alert, the second-highest alert level, as severe smog is forecast to linger in the Chinese capital for another three days.
Smoke from the massive bushfires in the Australian state of New South Wales is likely to drift more than 2,000 km across the Tasman into New Zealand in the next few days, a New Zealand government research agency warned Thursday.
A group of researchers from two Japanese universities said that railway suicides cases tend to increase due to less of sunlight, such as after a series of cloudy and rainy days, according to local media.
The head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, has condemned Tuesday the killing of Mario Sy, the third journalist killed in the Philippines in two days, and urged a thorough investigation into the killing.
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