Tens of thousands of Venezuelan mourners took to the streets of Caracas Wednesday, as the coffin carrying the body of late President Hugo Chavez proceeded through the city.
Axel van Trotsenburg has been appointed the World Bank's new Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, effective on Feb. 1, the Washington-based agency said on Thursday.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to arrive in South Korea on Monday for a five-day visit, during which she will meet with President Lee Myung-bak and President-elect Park Geun-hye.
U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to hit the road again, not far away from his re-election bid, to begin hosting campaign-style events in seek of support for his second-term agenda, said the White House on Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable but still delicate condition more than three weeks after a cancer surgery in Cuba, his son-in-law said on Wednesday.
The recovery of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will be "complex and difficult" following a fourth round of cancer surgery, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.
Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsy, will be undertaking a state visit to Islamabad on Friday at the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart immediately after the D-8 Summit,it's the first bilateral visit at this level between this two countries since 1960s.
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