A Swedish court ruled on Wednesday after a public hearing to uphold the arrest warrant for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who had stayed in Ecuador's embassy in London for two years to avoid extradition over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.
An official of Indonesia's election commission said on Monday that the commission would not be the one to legally announce the president-elect should either of the two presidential hopefuls running in last week's presidential elections rejects the real-count results.
The season's eighth typhoon Neoguri made landfall near Akune city in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan's southwest Kyushu area early Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The Thai junta has asked other countries not to facilitate any overseas Thai dissident movement, warning that it would be considered an unwarranted intervention in the internal affairs of Thailand.
Italian constitutional reforms has entered a decisive phase this week, with the Senate assembly expected to receive the draft law between Wednesday and Thursday and thus begin discussing the future shape of the country.
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said here Sunday that more assets would be deployed by the Malaysian side in the deep-sea search of the missing MH370 flight.
Indonesian central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), would allocate some 118.5 trillion rupiah (about 9. 7 billion U.S. dollars) of cash to comply with people's increasing demands on cash during the upcoming Muslim's fasting month of Ramadan and festivity that follows later, a BI official said here on Thursday.
A top Palestinian diplomat in Australia said on Wednesday that Canberra would not be punished by trade sanctions from the Islamic countries if there are no more inflammatory words about the status of Jerusalem.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday asked European Council President Herman Van Rompuy to prepare the European Council for a vote on the future president of the European Commission, Downing Street announced Monday.
Washington is considering airstrikes to quell Islamic extremists rolling through northern Iraq, but the situation is fraught with both political and military pitfalls, and there are no clear answers on the best path forward for the United States.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye had warned of a domino effect in the northeast Asian region from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s another nuclear test, the presidential office said Friday.
Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed U. S. President Barack Obama's drawdown scheme of forces in Afghanistan, noting that the country "stressed the importance of a responsible drawdown and cautioned against the creation of a security vacuum."
Thai former education minister Chaturon Chaisang was arrested by the military on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and United States President Barack Obama will meet at the White House next month to discuss a range of regional and international issues, Key announced Tuesday.
Swiss voters rejected an initiative to introduce a nationwide minimum wage in a referendum on Sunday.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has advanced his signature goal of formally militarizing the nation based on the findings of a hand-picked panel of constitutional and security experts who have green lit Abe's controversial security directive.
Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said here Thursday that three main priorities had been determined during the transition phase of the search for the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370.
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