The planned medium-speed train linking Jakarta to Bandung, the capital of West Java province, may require funds of 30 trillion rupiah (about 2.1 billion U.S. dollars), a senior official at Indonesia's Transportation Ministry said here on Tuesday.
The Pentagon plans to widen its overseas drone operations over the next four years to meet its increasing needs of surveillance and intelligence harvesting, the U.S. daily the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The recent massive bombings in Iraq are seriously threatening an ambitious plan the country's parliament has just passed on public-service reform.
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe releases an official statement later Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of his country's surrender at the end of World War II (WWII), he is standing at a critical crossroad.
A leading economic think-tank forecast Wednesday that Greece's GDP will shrink this year by three percent and 2.3 percent next year. Thus it will eventually be nearly a third smaller than it was at its peak.
Kremlin denounced Monday the U.S. attempts to provide air cover for Syrian rebels, indicating it will ultimately destabilize the country's situation.
Nigeria's newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) has said the ongoing military operations against Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast would be reviewed for greater efficiency.
A ceremony would be held in Vienna after the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiation on Monday, a diplomatic source said on Sunday.
The U.S. Army plans to cut 40,000 soldiers from both domestic and foreign posts over the next two years, according to U.S. daily USA TODAY.
An international team of scientists will begin a pioneering project beneath the seafloor off New Zealand in 2018 as they seek to learn more about the causes of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Three-quarters of Australian voters support a controversial proposal which would result in Australian nationals being stripped of citizenship should they engage in terrorist activities.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 countries, saying on Sunday that the reported breakthrough in negotiations is rather a "breakdown."
South Korea on Friday finalized supplementary budget plan for the second half at 11.8 trillion won (10.5 billion U.S. dollars) to boost the lackluster economy caused by sluggish exports, a long spell of drought and the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Greece's international creditors do not want a Grexit, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday night, as the country faced the first day with closed banks and capital controls, fueling concern over a looming default and exit from the euro zone.
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.
The central Bank of Greece recommended a bank holiday and the imposition of capital controls, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during a televised address to the nation on Sunday evening.
Russia might extend and tighten import restrictions against Western countries if they would renew their sanctions on Moscow, Russian officials said Thursday.
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