Ethnic tensions in Russia resulted from failures of cultural and educational policy, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in his annual state-of-the-nation address to the parliament.
Leaders of 17 ethnic armed groups in Myanmar will gather again in Hlaingbwe, southeastern Kayin state, on Dec. 18 for a three-day conference ahead of their continued ceasefire deal with the government, the local Standard Times Daily reported Monday, quoting a senior leader of the Kayin National Union (KNU).
A group of anti-government protesters on Sunday toppled the statue of Vladimir Lenin in Kiev
At least eight people died and eight others were missing in a storm in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, local civil defense office said Sunday.
The China Securities Journal on Tuesday gave a glowing review to China's newly announced state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms, with experts reinforcing how the measures eye reorganization and the involvement of more private capital.
Irish president Michael D Higgins will become the first Irish head of state to make a state visit to Britain in April next year, a British government statement said Monday.
Egypt will end a three-month-long state of emergency and curfew on Thursday, state-run MENA news agency reported on Wednesday, quoting a cabinet source.
New regulations will require a declaration of assets by state leaders, employees, state enterprise employees and their close relatives, according to state- run daily Vientiane Times, Monday.
Indian police are narrowing down on the perpetrators of the serial blasts in the eastern city of Patna which killed five and injured over 80 Sunday.
At least 1 person was killed and 51 others wounded Thursday in a candy factory blast in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, capital of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, local authorities said.
Egypt's prosecutor general referred on Wednesday former information minister, Salah Abdel Maqsoud, to the criminal court over charges of providing state TV equipment to another TV channel which broadcast pro-Morsi demonstrations, state- run MENA news agency reported.
Indian authorities Monday said the death toll in Sunday's stampede at a temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has crossed 110.
At least 160 people have been killed by unknown gunmen in villages located in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara State in the last three months, the local authorities said on Monday.
The death toll in the epic flooding in the U.S. state of Colorado climbed to seven on Monday, as the biggest rescue operation in the country since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina continued.
Egypt extended state of emergency that was scheduled to end on Thursday by two months, official news agency MENA reported.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived here Sunday evening for a state visit to Uzbekistan aimed at further boosting bilateral relations and cooperation.
About 100 police officers raided two communities belonging to a Christian sect in the southern German state of Bavaria on Thursday and removed 40 children due to evidence of ongoing child abuse.