Unicef condemned on Thursday the incidents of violence against children in Bangladesh which happened recently in different parts of the country.
Despite Philippine President Benigno Aquino III's efforts to showcase his five-year achievements in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA), administration critics in the country have accused him of being destructive, lame and dishonest.
Seventy years ago on July 27, allied warplanes swarmed Japan's skies as the country's militarists fought with desperation on the Oriental and Pacific battlefields.
Hundreds of Portuguese protested Wednesday outside parliament in capital Lisbon against the government's policies.
The white gunman who allegedly killed nine Charleston African-American churchgoers last month in South Carolina was indicted on 33 counts of federal charges, including hate crimes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that the new anti-terrorism draft law is not meant to oppress the people or limit freedoms, the state TV reported.
Myanmar navy has rescued 102 more " boat people" who are Bengalis, from an islet near Kawthoung, the country's southernmost Tanintharyi region, an official report said Tuesday.
The assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor Hesham Barakat in a car bomb on Monday is meant by extremists to intimidate the country's court system that is currently reviewing hundreds of cases and holding mass trials for self-proclaimed Islamists and members and loyalists of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Myanmar's Health Ministry said on Monday that no suspected cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been reported in the country.
The killing of nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting Wednesday night mirrors the U.S. government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence against ousted President Mohamed Morsi over mass jailbreak during the 2011 political turmoil.
One more Japanese bank giant, the Mizuho will open its first Myanmar branch in Yangon on August 3 and will become the third Japanese bank and the fifth out of nine international banks granted licenses to open a local banking branch in the country, official media reported Monday.
"My main objective is to train youngsters and inspire increased unity among war-torn and ethnically divided Afghanistan and eventually change the face of the militancy-plagued country to a peace-loving one,"the coach of a Kung fu club in Kabul, Khalid Zahorian, 39, told Xinhua recently.
Although the term "active defense", the highlight of China's latest military strategy released Tuesday, sounds quite new, the country's path of peaceful development will not change.
The situation in Burundian remains uncertain after authorities decided to postpone parliamentary elections for reasons of national security, following protests and a thwarted coup attempt to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza.
The South African government has rejected claims that an ongoing anti-crime campaign is targeted at foreign nationals living in the country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived here Thursday for a visit to Kazakhstan, his second to the Central Asian country since he took office in March 2013.
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