U.S. security sources said on Wednesday that the Libyan government gave tacit approval to a U.S. operation in its country to capture alleged al-Qaida suspect Abu Anas Al-Libi last Saturday in Tripoli.
A total of 577 people applied for enterprise registration at the newly-launched Shanghai pilot free trade zone on Tuesday, the first day for registration, according to an official statement.
When Hu Haitao watched his son Hu Bing swallow the small white pills meant to protect him from polio, he never imagined what the end result would be.
A Chinese provincial court announced on Wednesday that it will hear the appeal of Bo Xilai, sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power last month.
An Athens court sentenced on Monday evening Greek former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos to twenty years imprisonment for money laundering and receiving kickbacks from state armaments' purchases in one of the country's most prominent corruption scandals to be brought before justice in recent years.
Like Bruce Wayne, Zhou Xiaoyun also faces his enemies in a DIY outfit -- a pair of sunglasses and a mask. And while he doesn't have access to Batman's high technology, he has at least harnessed the Internet as a powerful weapon.
A Hamas official on Sunday denied reports that relations between the militant group and Qatar have been brought to a low level.
U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled his plan to attend an APEC summit in Indonesia and a East Asia summit in Brunei next week because of the government shutdown impasse, the White House said late Thursday.
Italy faced a new political "drama" on Sunday, a day after the country has been plunged into chaos by the sudden resignations of five centre-right ministers.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and his visiting Iraqi counterpart, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, called on Tuesday for boosting bilateral cooperation on national defense, Press TV reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama has always had his detractors among conservative media and the Republican Party (GOP), but now his former employees as well as mainstream media are chiming in, hammering him over his Syria policy.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday evening by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron, the spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed to Xinhua.
Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a major U.S. network on Wednesday that his administration will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has full authority to make a deal with Western powers on his country's atomic program.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday he respects Indonesia's sovereignty and he is confident that his government would be able to work effectively with Indonesia.
The fourth victim has been killed Tuesday by an alleged poacher who started a shoot-out with the police in the state of Lower Austria, authorities said.
Seven years after the "Curse of the Golden Flower," veteran director Zhang Yimou and his muse Gong Li have got together again for his new feature project "Gui Lai."
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