More rains are forecasted in the Yangtze River Basin on Wednesday, mostly in the lower reaches, where 4 million people are involved in the fight against floods, including 100,000 soldiers.
Two groups of lawyers on Monday mounted legal challenges to the results of Sunday’s elections in Japan, claiming that the disparity in the value of votes in different parts of the country made the poll unconstitutional.
yphoon Nepartak has left at least five people missing, damaged 1,000 houses and disrupted traffic after making landfall Saturday afternoon in east China's Fujian Province.
Dike patrolman Shao Wentao, 34, has been bowed down with anxiety in recent days.
A human body found inside a suitcase floating in a Tokyo canal last month has been identified as that of a Chinese woman missing for over two years, police said Thursday.
The problems that led the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to suspend an affiliated anti-doping lab in Rio de Janeiro have already been solved, according to the Brazilian government.
Leaders order more resources to help with rescue and relief efforts.
Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte said Tuesday he is willing to grant amnesty to the leftist rebels if they surrender to the government.
Well-educated and hailing from wealthy families, the gunmen who killed 20 hostages in a Bangladesh cafe defy the increasingly outdated stereotype of jihadists from poor backgrounds who have been radicalised in madrassas.
Edward Snowden can add Off-Broadway actor to his resume.
Israel's government said on Saturday that a cemetery for Palestinian "terrorists" will be constructed in order not to return bodies of assailants to their families in the West Bank.
In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was flying high. Although it had not escaped the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it had suffered less economic damage, and had come back more quickly, than other countries, including the United States. With the economy booming, the federal government felt so flush that its popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had instituted a series of expensive social programs that helped push millions of poor Brazilians toward a better life. The Economist magazine predicted that Brazil would soon be the world’s fifth-largest economy, leapfrogging Britain and France.
The old store keeper was standing behind a glass case in his dusty shop in the southern Kandahar province and bargaining enthusiastically with a customer over the price of a rare and expensive artifact.
Japan's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hiroshi Moriyama admitted he accepted 200,000 yen (1,955 U.S. dollars) in September last year from the head of the Japan Poultry Association, while working as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's committee head dealing with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
India has started delivery of the components for a global project to build world's largest fusion device in France.
As Britons will make their most important decision in decades in Thursday's referendum on the nation's membership in the EU, some members of the business community operating between EU and UK highlighted their concerns about the historic referendum.
Torrential rain across nine provinces and Chongqing municipality in central and southern areas of China has left more than 20 people dead and forced tens of thousands from their homes.
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