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South Korea and the United States kicked off their annual, massive military exercises on Wednesday as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered his troops to prepare for a “merciless strike” against the enemy forces.
Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on torture in the conflict-hit south, decrying the prosecution as an effort to silence critics.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a “serial killer” who should be forced out of office, one of his chief critics said on Tuesday, as she faced arrest on drug charges she insisted were meant to silence her.
Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have detained several people after a popular movie actress complained to them that she was abducted and subsequently raped, officials said.
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The Czech Republic will help Iraq train its diplomats, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed on Wednesday between the two nations.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said here Monday it is "not the time for change" concerning the sanctions the European Union imposed on Russia.
The British government's Brexit plan will be put to the test on Tuesday with a landmark court ruling on whether it has the right to kick-start the country's EU departure without parliamentary approval.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy for accusing him of giving 1 million U.S. dollars to a social media celebrity to attack the opposition party.
Venezuela rounded up a dissident former general and two other regional politicians on Thursday in what the opposition called a wave of repression by socialist President Nicolas Maduro's government.
More than hundreds of women have taken arms against armed insurgents in the northern Jauzjan province, Abdul Hafiz Khashi, deputy to provincial police chief, said.
Palestinians look forward to building on the recent UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlement activity, while Israel expressed fear of more international steps against it.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's allies in Congress on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a senator who has been an outspoken critic of a surge of extrajudicial killings unleashed by the president's campaign against drugs.