United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Monday said he regretted the Syrian National Coalition's (SNC) decision to pull out of proposed talks between warring factions, adding he hoped their stance may yet evolve.
Italian police launched a major anti-mafia operation on Monday, seizing some 120 kg of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro in Southern Italy, local media reported.
The Volvo Car Group reported a global sales surge for the month of July on Monday although the company suffered from a hefty drop in Chinese demand.
General Mark Milley, President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next top officer in the U.S. Army, said Tuesday he regards it "appropriate" to arm military recruiters in some cases, following the attacks in Chattanooga, Tennessee last week that killed five people including four Marines.
Chinese vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong told reporters on Sunday in Vienna there won't be a long extension of Iranian nuclear negotiation, and that sides in the talks are only "a step away" from the possible comprehensive nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to leave Vienna for Tehran on Sunday night, an Iranian official told Iranian media.
Twenty villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters on Monday stormed a remote village in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, survivors said Tuesday.
A total of 28 people were killed, including three suicide bombers, and over 28 others wounded in bomb attacks and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq on Sunday, while gunmen abducted nine people in eastern the country, security sources said.
Iraq on Tuesday dispatched reinforcement to Salahudin province to fight IS militants trying to take the country's largest oil refinery, security sources said.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday there was no excuse for that kind of violence that occurred in Baltimore in the past days, calling for the country to do some "soul searching" as the race-related riots convulsed the largest city of U.S. State of Maryland.
2nd LD: Dozens killed, injured in central Vietnam's iron, steel construction site
Nigerian police said Monday that they have recovered a large cache of arms from unauthorized individuals following the recent order from the country's inspector-general of police.
Light to strong rain will fall in most of China's northern and southeastern regions and smog will cover the country's central part over the next two days, the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The extremist Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday executed 19 local policemen in Iraq's western province of Anbar, while seven IS militants were killed in clashes in the northern central province of Salahudin, security source said.
Iran and the world powers have started "serious and intensive" talks over the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear program in the Austrian capital of Vienna, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Wednesday.
At least 11 security members were killed and some 25 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's central Babil province, a provincial security source said on Monday.
At least one person died and 38 others were injured after a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted a county in southwest China's Yunnan Province Tuesday night, said local government.
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