Casualties were feared after a suicide car bombing targeted a military convoy of the NATO-led troops in eastern Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday morning, police said.
Four men were arrested on Tuesday in a series of police raids across London as part of an investigation into "Islamist-related terrorism", British media said.
Five people were killed and 30 were injured at a 40 car pile-up in northern Greece on Sunday, according to the latest toll announced by Greek authorities.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying gave an urgent TV broadcast on Friday evening calling for peace after Occupy protesters clashed with anti-Occupy people in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong's two major commercial areas.
Some 30 African police chiefs are scheduled to meet in Uganda on Oct. 2 over the formation of a continental police organization that will allow better networking and faster flow of information when dealing with criminality.
At least 36 hikers are feared to have been killed according to the latest figures from police Monday, following the massive eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan shortly before noon on Saturday.
Forty rioters died in a series of explosions in Luntai County of northwest China's Xinjiang on Sunday, and six civilians, two police officers and two auxiliary policemen were killed, local media reported Thursday.
Australian authority on Friday has ramped up security in the capital of Canberra after potential terror attack plot against the Parliament House and the country's top leaders was traced.
Peru declared Thursday a 60-day state of emergency in its northern Amazonian region of Loreto, saying the area is overrun with drug trafficking and organized crimes.
Two days after returning from South Africa following a military coup, Lesotho's Prime Minister Tomas Thabane on Thursday pledged to re-open parliament on September 19.
Four policemen were arrested for blackmail, Jamaican anti-corruption authorities said Tuesday.
The ongoing militancy and conflicts have claimed the lives of eight people including an ISAF service member in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan on Friday.
Demonstrations against the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson,Missouri, gradually quiet down, but mistrust and disbelief prevailed.
At least 10 militants and one policeman were killed while a district police chief wounded Wednesday morning in a clash in eastern Ghazni province, a source said.
Sri Lanka's police have launched a special investigation into over 360 complaints alleging frauds by individuals posing as close relatives of President Mahinda Rajapaksa or his family, local media said here on Monday.
Two Indian policemen and a civilian were killed Wednesday after militants attacked a police vehicle in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
Chinese police have detained a man suspected of spreading rumors on WeChat, following authorities' new regulation on instant messaging services.
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