Abu Sayyaf militant group in the Philippines has freed four other Indonesian nationals abducted on March 15, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said here on Wednesday.
Investigators are still trying hard Sunday to find out a killer or killers who were allegedly targeting a tight-knit family in southern state of Ohio and shooting dead eight of the family members.
Hong Kong enters a chilly week ahead after a steep drop in temperature over the past twenty four hours.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump scored respectively at least four of the first seven Super Tuesday contests, garnering an early advantage over their rivals for the 2016 presidential nomination contests, according to multiple media projections.
The fourth round of the key Quadrilateral meeting on Afghan peace process and preparing roadmap to find political solution to the lingering Afghan crisis kicked off in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday.
Australia's most senior recruiter for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS) group, who was reportedly linked to an alleged plot to attack Anzac Day commemorations, has been killed, local media said yesterday.
Four miners were rescued from a collapsed mine in east China's Shandong Province on Friday night after 36 days trapped underground.
China Orient Asset Management Corp. (COAMC), one of China's four largest asset managers that specializes in bad loans, said on Thursday that it will raise 10 billion yuan (1.53 billion U.S. dollars) ahead of its initial public offering (IPO).
A second round of four-country talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations with the Taliban was held in Kabul Monday, even as the insurgents wage an unprecedented winter campaign of violence across Afghanistan.
In the militancy-plagued Afghanistan, people from all walks of life have welcomed holding the second round of the four-nation talks on Afghan peace process to bring Taliban outfit into negotiating table and find political settlement to the country's protracted conflict.
Thai authorities have detected no connection between four Syrian nationals, who have overstayed their visas in Thailand, and the Islamic State (IS) militant group, police said Tuesday.
The Philippine government will not give in to the demand of four billion pesos (85.44 million U.S. dollars) ransom being demanded by Abu Sayyaf Group for the release of four hostages that they have abducted in a resort in southern part of the country in September, a senior government official said Wednesday.
The Philippines' death toll from typhoon Koppu reached 41 while 78 others were reported injured in the northern part of the country, the state disaster management agency said Thursday.
Indian police detained four young men with suspected links with terror outfit Islamic State ( IS) when they arrived from Abu Dhabi early Tuesday in the southern state of Kerala, said local media.
Five people have been confirmed dead and six taken to hospital following an explosion in a fireworks factory on the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza in central Spain on Monday.
Hungarian police have detained a fifth suspect in the deaths of 71 refugees who apparently suffocated in a closed Hungarian-owned truck on an Austrian motorway south of Vienna, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced on Sunday.
SAO PAULO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The 43rd World Skills Competition closed on Sunday in Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo, with China scoring four gold medals in manufacturing, welding, hairdressing, and car painting.