Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak attended a trial Sunday on charges of inciting violence and murdering protesters, state-TV reported.
Nepalese campaigners on Sunday protested in front of the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, demanding a separate Gorkhaland state in northeastern India.
Foreign ministers from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), a South American trading block, expressed concern over alleged U.S. spying activities on them.
Malaysia's ruling coalition won a crucial by-election on Wednesday after a closely contested general election in May.
The deaths of at least 22 schoolchildren in a massive food poisoning case in the eastern Indian state of Bihar could be caused by deliberate poisoning, said a local official Thursday.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein has urged the Interfaith Friendship Group in the country to make efforts to avoid the recurrence of riots and violence in the nation, while maintaining the country's dignity and protecting people, official media reported Sunday.
Egypt's defense minister said the army is obliged to interfere to prevent the country from sliding into a dark tunnel of conflicts, internal fighting and sectarian strife, official news agency MENA reported Sunday.
More than 200 schools in Malaysia's state of Johor were closed as the haze that hits the country has reached the hazardous level, it is reported here Thursday.
The two-state solution, which has received considerable support among the Israelis, remains the best choice for Israel and the Palestinians to solve their decades- old conflict, Israeli President Shimon Peres told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The online sales tax act is not fair and could bring damage to small enterprises and the jobs they create, said John Donahoe, chief executive officer of eBay Inc., one of the world's leading e-commerce companies, Tuesday.
Former railways minister Liu Zhijun has been charged for bribery and abuse of power, authorities said Wednesday.
The three Asian doctors that were killed by unknown attackers in the northeast Nigeria's town of Potiskum are from Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Nigerian police in northeast state of Yobe confirmed on Sunday.
Three explosive devices went off Tuesday in Syria's capital of Damascus, leaving injuries and property loss, as a broad-based opposition watchdog placed the overall death toll of Syria's 22-month-old crisis at 50,000.
Despite the curfew that started a few hours go in Egypt's three turmoil-hit governorates of Port Said, Suez and Ismailia due to the recent bloody clashes, a lot of anti-government protestors took to the streets Monday night, fearlessly violating the curfew and ignoring the deployed armed forces.
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Firefighters are battling 126 bushfires in Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW), with 15 of those remaining uncontrolled, the authorities said on Thursday.
A top official in the U.S. state of Texas on Monday urged school districts in the state to review their safety plans and implored those that have failed to do so to catch up.
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