More than 90 percent of the missing children whose details were shared on an innovative web platform over the past six months have been located, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar are trying to escape a military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh.
A hospital, blood bank and ambulances are reported to have been hit as Syrian government aircraft and artillery bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
The first shipload of refugees left the quake-stricken town of Kaikoura Wednesday as the New Zealand government announced the magnitude of Monday's deadly tremor had been upgraded from 7.5 to 7.8.
New Zealand rescue workers are evacuating scores of tourists and residents from the town hardest hit by a series of powerful earthquakes.
Indonesian police investigated an explosion outside a church in East Kalimantan in central parts of the country on Sunday that killed one child and injured three other children, police spokesman disclosed here on Monday.
The Delhi govt has finally announced a slew of emergency measures to deal with the public health crisis
The South Korean political system has been shaken to its core over the revelations that President Park Geun-hye has been taking secret advice from Choi Soon-sil, a friend of 40 years who held no official position and had no policy background.
Paris authorities began an operation early on Friday (Nov 4) to clear more than 3,000 migrants from a camp in the north-east of the French capital.
Pakistan says it has uncovered a network of spies working from India's mission in Islamabad.
India will expel a Pakistani visa official for "espionage activities", the foreign ministry said on Thursday (Oct 27), with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours already running high.
China's first domestic-built aircraft carrier is in the development stage, with the hull having already been assembled in a shipyard, said a spokesperson for the country's Ministry of National Defense on Thursday.
Smiley faces and images of food and cats designed almost 20 years ago by a Japanese phone company and used in digital messages worldwide have now attained the status of art.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's red star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame was smashed into pieces Wednesday by a man who dressed up as a construction worker.
"Our living conditions are becoming unbearable due to the security situation here getting worse and we are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance to survive, particularly as Afghanistan's bone-chilling winter is fast-approaching," head of a displaced family, Bismillah, 35, told Xinhua recently.
Emergency relief supplies have been sent to Tottori Prefecture and surrounding areas in western Japan following a magnitude-6.6 earthquake striking the region Friday, local government officials said on Saturday.
Offices, businesses and schools in the southern city of Shenzhen will close as Typhoon Haima is expected to hit Friday afternoon, the local flood control authorities said.
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