Germany and France have invited Ukraine and Russia to meet in Minsk next week for four-way talks aimed at kick-starting peace talks on the crisis in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.
Only one month after claiming the men's 20-kilometer race walk title at the Rio Olympic Games, China's Wang Zhen has already set his sights on defending gold at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Flames once again licked the historic buildings of Britain's capital as a wooden replica of 17th century London went up in smoke to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to establish a new ministerial post to oversee Japan's economic cooperation with Russia, local media reported on Thursday, quoting government source.
The Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday (Aug 9) ordered an inquiry into four judges whom President Rodrigo Duterte has linked to the drug trade, a day after the Chief Justice criticised the President's name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics.
As many as 53 violations have been detected in trial operation process of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation (FHS) which caused mass fish deaths in central coastal Vietnam, said a Vietnamese official here on Monday.
Myanmar parliament's second session including the two Houses' will reconvene on July 25 , nearly a month after its first session adjourned on June 10, according to an announcement of the parliament published Monday.
The first annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was held in Beijing on June 25-26. The operation of the AIIB since its establishment was introduced and multiple topics with future development included were discussed in the meeting. What has been done by the AIIB over the past half a year?
Four militants were killed and four others captured during a counterterrorism operation, said Algerian Defense Ministry on Saturday in a statement.
The first member of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge regime jailed for the 1970s “Killing Fields” atrocities admitted on Thursday brutally murdering four unidentified Westerners and burning their bodies with piles of tyres.
The Chinese Navy has reached an agreement with the International SOS and Beijing Red Cross for the two agencies to provide emergency medical services for sick or wounded soldiers.
A Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) blue and white jar, once used to put walking sticks in by its lastEuropean owner, was sold for HK$158 million yuan ($20 million) at a Hong Kong auction onMonday night.
A group of suicide attackers targeted a provincial court in the eastern Ghazni city, leaving four people dead and injuring a judge on Wednesday, provincial police chief Aminullah Omarkhil said.
A court in central China's Hunan Province on Monday handed five staff members of a newspaper and its website prison terms of up to 12 years for blackmail.
The Four people, including a Chinese national and two Spanish tourists who went missing at sea in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state, were found safe after being picked up by Vietnamese fishermen, Malaysian maritime officials said Thursday.
At least four people have been confirmed dead and four others injured as heavy rainfall and flash flood hit several villages in the northern Badakhshan province on Wednesday night, director of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the province, Sayed Abdullah Hamayon Dehqan, said Thursday.
Thailand might probably buy four more Swedish jet fighters to add to a current squadron of 12 fighters of the same type, said Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong on Thursday.
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