South Korea planned to buy four Global Hawks, the unmanned spy drone, from the United States to beef up its defense capabilities against possible missile and nuclear threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
Malaysia's economic growth next year will likely be subdued, falling below the government's target, due to fiscal consolidation, a foreign services company predicted.
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly denied Tuesday any knowledge of plans to destroy Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles in neighboring Lebanon.
If fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden applies for political asylum in Ecuadorian territory, the Ecuadorian authorities will consider accepting the appeal, President Rafael Correa said Tuesday.
Israel will release a second group of Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday night after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal objecting to the release.
Australia on Tuesday maintained a ban issued by the previous Labor government to bar China's telecom company Huawei from bidding for the country's high speed national Internet program, local media reported.
Czech Social Democrats is leading the country's parliamentary elections on Saturday, preliminary results showed.
Thousands of Portuguese on Saturday took to streets in Lisbon, the national capital of Portugal, and several other cities, to protest against the government's austerity measures in the country's 2014 draft budget.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Sunday strongly condemned the killing of a peacekeeper during renewed clashes between government forces and rebels in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Brazilian government will do everything it can to prevent abusive prices in plane tickets for the FIFA World Cup, which will take place in June-July 2014 in 12 Brazilian cities, an official said Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the partial federal government shutdown has damaged the country's image abroad, warning politicians to avoid another such shutdown.
Syria's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the recent European Union meeting in Luxembourg, during which the EU ministers condemned the Syrian government for "unprecedented use of force and systematic violations of human rights."
The Australian government is facing intense challenge from banks and financial service providers to act on reforms of the financial advisers sector as crafted by the previous Labor government, collectively known as the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA).
The German government voiced its anger on Wednesday evening at possible U.S. intelligence's spying on the mobile phone communications of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying it would be "a serious breach of trust" if confirmed.
Japan for the first time has thrown its weight behind a UN statement on nuclear disarmament with senior government officials stating Tuesday that the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use are unacceptable.
A partial U.S. government shutdown this month has cut 0.25 percentage point off the fourth-quarter economic growth and cost the country 120,000 jobs in October, Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on Tuesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive C Y Leung said Tuesday in Beijing that the Hong Kong government will seek justice for the families of the victims and injured people in the Hong Kong hostage crisis in Manila, the Philippines, three years ago, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government website.
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