Chinese Premier Li Keqiang started an Africa tour on Sunday with his arrival in Ethiopia, where he will also visit the headquarters of the African Union (AU).
The proposals raised Saturday by former Thai Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva that an election be suspended for a six-month period was obviously"too late," according to Election Commissioner Somchai Srisuthiyakorn.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday once again called for "a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts" relating to the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks starting in 1915.
India's ruling Congress party Thursday complained to the independent Election Commission against main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's road show in the holy city of Varanasi, after being apparently rattled by the huge turnout.
Indonesia's anti-graft agency declared suspect status against the outgoing chief of Indonesian State Auditing Agency (BPK) Hadi Poernomo shortly after he retired from his post for his involvement in graft case that cost the state some 375 billion rupiah (about 32.4 million U.S. dollars).
Former Pakistani military President Pervez Musharraf, currently facing a high treason trial, on Monday moved a court to seek lifting a travel ban on him as he wants medical treatment abroad, his lawyers said. Musharraf also wants to visit his ailing mother in the United Arab Emirates, they said.
En route home from his Asia- Pacific trip Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel placed an in-flight call to Ukraine's Acting Minister of Defense Mykhaylo Koval, reaffirming American help to Ukraine.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Tuesday he found a combination of spending cuts and other offsets to allow for a 7-billion-euro (9.7-billion -U.S. dollar) tax cut this year, though reactions to the plan are giving signs that the new leader's honeymoon period may be starting to end.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is working to investigate the cause of Wednesday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon said Thursday.
One minute, Xiao Man, 18, is meticulously drawing an earring, copying from a picture on his table. The next, humming loudly, he gets up from his chair and starts pounding on the table.
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a request by former military President Pervez Musharraf to allow him to go abroad for his own treatment and to look after his ailing mother, officials said.
For He Ping, owner of a plumbing factory in east China's Zhejiang Province who has been doing business for 16 years, the key to his success is credibility.
Lin Zulian, who has led Wukan since his election two years ago, has been reelected head of the village committee, in south China's Guangdong Province.
The appeal hearing of a former policeman sentenced to death for killing a pregnant woman in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was heard on Tuesday.
India's anti-graft party chief Arvind Kejriwal was attacked Friday while he was on a campaign trail for upcoming general elections in the northern state of Haryana, a police official said.
Egyptian military chief of staff Gen. Sedki Sobhi took oath of office on Thursday as the country's new defense minister to succeed his predecessor Abdel-Fattah al- Sisi who resigned to run for president, the state TV reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled his proposal to change the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program that has collected Americans' phone metadata in bulk, offering support to let telephone companies hold the data.
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