The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has confirmed that UN helicopter which crashed in South Sudan last month killing three Russian crewmen was "shot down."
A U.S. F-15C Eagle fighter jet crashed on Wednesday morning near Deerfield, Virginia, during a routine mission, the Pentagon confirmed.
Italy's rescue mission of boat migrants in the Mediterranean Sea will be taken over by a similar European Union (EU) operation, Italian interior minister Angelino Alfano said on Wednesday.
The Dutch government decided not to send a military mission to the MH17 plane crash site in eastern Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said late Sunday after a cabinet meeting.
The OPCW-UN joint mission has made "significantly good progress" in eliminating Syria's chemical stockpiles.
Jiaolong, China's first manned deep-sea submersible, on Friday embarked on a scientific expedition in the Pacific Ocean.
Bluefin-21 has completed mission 15 with no results and has commenced mission 16 on Monday morning, according to the latest statement of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC).
The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ( AUV), Bluefin-21, is currently planing its next search mission after completing a full mission overnight, and 12 aircraft and 11 ships will assist in Thursday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) said on Thursday.
Moscow will lend a helicopter to Ukrainian inspectors who asked to carry out a monitoring mission over Russia's Belgorod and Kursk regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.
Twin suicide blasts on Wednesday morning hit the Iranian cultural mission in Lebanon's capital of Beirut, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others, Aljadeed TV and eyewitnesses said.
Citing complexity, security and weather, the head of the joint UN-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission charged with ridding the munitions from Syria said Wednesday though the operation has been delayed, it is expected to meet its June deadline.
China's navy hospital ship Peace Ark returned to a navy port on Zhoushan island in east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday, concluding a humanitarian medical aid mission in typhoon-hit areas in the Philippines.
Under the plan, Lockheed Martin will design the Mars One lander, which will be based on the successful 2007 Phoenix mission spacecraft the company designed, built, tested and operated for U. S. space agency NASA.
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, has helped redeploy 200 Congolese police to areas liberated from the M23 rebel group, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A joint international mission in charge of Syria's chemical weapons program said that it had visited 18 of the sites disclosed by Syria, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.
The Syrian government has " fully cooperated" in supporting the joint mission of the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to destroy Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons, Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag said on Tuesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday suggested that Japan continue to monitor freshwater and marine environment near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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