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The United Arab Emirates ambassador to Afghanistan has died from injuries sustained in a bomb attack in Kandahar province last month, officials say.
US President-elect Donald Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as his nominee for secretary of agriculture on Thursday (Jan 19), Fox News reported on Wednesday.
Jakarta's Christian governor choked back tears on Tuesday (Dec 13) as he gave an impassioned defence against charges of blasphemy, telling an Indonesian court he never intended to offend his Muslim countrymen.
At least 10 foreign tourists were killed and five others wounded in an ambush attack in Afghanistan's western province of Herat on Thursday, a district governor said.
Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first female governor on Sunday after her two predecessors stepped down amid scandals while the city is gearing up for preparations of the 2020 Olympic Games.
Scandal-hit Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has been urged to step down in a deliberation at the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on Monday and is facing a no-confidence motion as early as Wednesday due to his misuse of political fund.
Malaysian government on Wednesday announced the replacement of its long-time central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz.
A law academic and businesswoman was named as New Zealand's next governor-general on Tuesday, the representative of the country's head of state.
The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for assassinating the governor of Yemen's Aden province and six of his bodyguards in a bomb attack in the country' s temporary capital on Sunday, the militant group said in a statement posted on social media.
"The security forces after killing 20 Taliban rebels and arresting 10 others over the past four days recaptured Khamab district and Taliban fighters fled to jungles around the area," Azizi told reporters at a press conference.
A total of 190 Taliban militants have been killed over the past 13 days of heavy fighting in Kunduz province with Kunduz city as its capital, 250 km north of Kabul, while 23 others laid down arms and surrendered on Wednesday, provincial governor Mohammad Omar Safi said.
Cairo, the overcrowded capital city of the most populous Arab country Egypt, will be cleaner and more orderly within two months, Cairo governor Galal al-Saeed told Xinhua in an exclusive interview, speaking of a massive campaign to clean the capital city, reduce traffic congestion, eliminate slums and restore order after three years of political turmoil.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye nominated next chief of the country's central bank on Monday ahead of the termination of incumbent chief's tenure later this month.
The governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said Wednesday that China's monetary policies will remain stable and continuous, no matter who ends up becoming the central bank's new governor.
The deputy governor of China's central bank has warned of a possible currency war after Japan has joined the club to adopt unconventional steps to escape recession.
An investigation into a deadly tunnel blast in northern China found a subsidiary of the China Railway Tunnel Group covered up the catastrophe... Which killed eight people and injured five more.
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