Egypt's cabinet said in a statement on Wednesday that it is constantly convened due to the mounting terrorist activities, voicing full support for all security measures to combat terrorism in the country.
Moscow is extremely concerned over the deployment of U.S. medical-biological laboratories near the Russian border, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Nigeria on Monday moved its military control center to the city of Maiduguri, the heartland of Boko Haram's insurgency and capital of the northeastern state of Borno, to engage in the routing of the terror group in the West African country.
The deputy UN secretary- general, Jan Eliasson, and the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Le Luong Minh, on Thursday discussed the situation of migrants and refugees stranded on vessels in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
China and Brazil issued a joint statement to further facilitate bilateral trade Tuesday after talks between visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
The pro-independence insurgents in eastern Ukraine said Wednesday that they are ready to hold local elections under the Ukrainian law in their region if certain conditions were met.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab accepted on Monday the resignation of Justice Minister Mahfouz Saber who has recently made an anti-poor statement that angered the public opinion and was described as "racist," official MENA news agency reported.
Australian Victorian and federal governments announced 1.08 billion U.S dollar facelift to the Melbourne Airport road link to cut travel time to the airport by up to 20 minutes, according to a statement released Thursday.
The United States is dispatching a disaster response team to Nepal along with an initial 1 million U.S. dollars in aid after a massive earthquake struck the Asian country and parts of its neighboring states, said the White House in a statement Saturday.
Chinese authorities have shut down 66 illegally built golf courses, according to a statement from the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) on Monday.
Japanese media and public on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face up to history squarely, citing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's words"facing World War II crimes is key to reconciliation"during a lecture in Tokyo.
As the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II draws closer, a spotlight from heavyweight political figures here as well as the international community is being firmly trained on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will craft and deliver a new statement on the historic day.
207 Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram militants were killed by Chadian army in Nigeria on Tuesday, according to a statement of Chadian army released Tuesday night on state radio.
Egypt conducted airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) positions in Libya on Monday, a day after the militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians in the neighboring country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said that he "remains gravely concerned over the situation in eastern Ukraine," and reiterated his call for "a sustainable ceasefire to take hold and for urgent diplomatic and political action."
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned the "heinous murder" of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, after the IS claimed in a video it posted online that it beheaded Goto.
Tourism ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) call for efforts to become a quality tourist destinations under a new ASEAN Tourism Strategic Plan (ATSP) 2016-25, said a joint media statement of the 18th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting (ATMM) released here on Monday.
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