Conflict and bomb blast in the northern Badakhshan and eastern Kunar province have left 17 suspected Taliban militants dead, officers said Saturday.
Over 500 Boko Haram fighters have been killed by the Nigerien Defense Forces supported by the Chadian troops between last Friday and Tuesday, eyewitnesses have said.
A ministerial meeting of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies kicked off Tuesday with a call for cooperation towards social development.
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Jaycee Chan, son of Chinese kung fu star Jackie Chan, stood trial on Friday for drug offense at the Dongcheng District People's Court in Beijing.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered full scale investigation into bomb attacks on the Central Mosque in northwest Kano that left 35 killed and 150 injured on Friday.
Crude prices advanced Monday as a government report showed U.S. consumer spending increased in August.
American warplanes continued their airstrikes on the Islamic State militant group in northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday, destroying some of its military vehicles, the U.S. Central Command said.
The U.S. dollar strengthened against most major currencies Friday and rose versus the euro as the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates in 2015 while the European Central Bank (ECB) may expand monetary easing measures.
The ongoing militancy and conflicts have claimed the lives of eight people including an ISAF service member in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan on Friday.
Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal to conduct another 72-hour ceasefire starting from Monday at 1:00 a.m. local time, an Israeli official said.
Fiji was re-elected on Friday to the council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for a four- year period starting from Jan. 1, 2015, the Fijian government announced.
Thailand's National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC) announced Thursday that the country's constitution was temporarily suspended.
Bluefin-21 is currently completing mission 13 in the underwater search area and has now completed approximately 95 percent of the focused underwater search area with nothing found, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) confirmed in the latest update on Friday.
Lanzhou city in northwest China's Gansu province canceled emergency water supply to Anning district at 5 p.m. Sunday, as the contaminated tap water was found safe there, local government said.
The bad weather has still limited visibility of the search area for locate debris that may be linked to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, and the search mission in southern Indian Ocean would be last several days, Media Liaison Officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), Andrea Hayward-Maher, said Friday.
Totally 14 people injured after a 6. 1-magnitude quake that hit southwest Japan early Friday morning, while agency said quakes of around intensity 4 could occur in the coming week, according to local media Friday.
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