Parents of victims of Air Algeria's flight AH-5017 crash expressed anger over the manner the company was releasing information about the accident in which no one survived.
Rainstorms lashed central China's Hunan Province and southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday and Tuesday, affecting over 1 million people and flooding a historical town.
Pakistani security forces have cleared 70 percent area of the armed militants in their second stronghold in North Waziristan tribal region, the army said Sunday.
Forty-eight people have been confirmed dead and 10 injured in a Taiwan plane crash Wednesday, the airliner said in a statement Thursday morning.
China will redouble its efforts to rid cyberspace of rumors and slanderous content and dish out heavier punishments for Internet rumormongers, a government statement said on Tuesday.
Moldy bread that was sent to typhoon-hit villagers in Hainan has been sealed and sent away for analysis, authorities told a press conference on Monday.
Suthep Thaugsuban, who had led months-long protests against the former Yingluck government of Thailand, was ordained as a Buddhist monk Tuesday morning.
Global drug use has remained stable though a surge in opium production in Afghanistan is of concern, the United Nations drugs and crime agency revealed Thursday.
China had used 86.369 billion U.S. dollars in loans from international financial institutions by the end of last year, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
Thai military junta has managed to obtain a high degree of approval from the people for its performance after taking over national administration on May 22, an opinion survey released Sunday showed.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed with Xinhua on Sunday that the agency is working on analyzing existing data and information to refine a new search area for the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370.
Fifty people in central China's Hunan Province have been indicted for their roles in an electoral fraud, the provincial procuratorate said on Monday.
The Pakistani military announced on Sunday that the security forces have launched a major operation against the local and foreign militants in the restive North Waziristan tribal region.
Pakistan Defense Minister Khwaja Asif Sunday said that a decisive operation has been ordered against the militant groups in North Waziristan tribal region with consultations of all stakeholders.
Political circles of southern China's Guangdong Province are being redrawn as some 1,000 officials either accept demotion or bring their families back from overseas.
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), operator of the troubled Monju sodium-cooled fast reactor located in Fukui Prefecture in the east of Japan, said Thursday it will endeavor to raise its equipment inspection protocols and overall safety management procedures in a bid to reverse a ban preventing the facility from operating.
Fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden could extend his refugee status in Russia, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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