The State Council, China's cabinet, said on Wednesday that the country has the confidence and condition to realize its major economic and social development targets this year.
Gul Zaman, No. 2 leader of the Islamic State (IS) branch in Afghanistan, has been killed along with six other IS members in a U.S. drone strike, said the country 's intelligence agency on Tuesday.
The basic elements for reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal has been provided, and there should be an accord to be agreed on in the final talks, Chinese Foreign Minster Wang Yi told reporters here on Thursday.
Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the government for violating his human rights by exposing him to extreme isolation in prison, local newspaper VG reported on Wednesday.
Japan has halted all its Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Osaka, after one of the super express trains made an emergency stop south of Tokyo when white smoke was seen billowing out of one of the carriages following a man setting himself alight.
British investigators have identified "a significant number of potential offenders" in a probe into the child sexual abuse scandal in Rotherham, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) announced Wednesday.
Two policemen have been killed and two Lebanese workers abducted by unknown gunmen in Nigeria's southeastern state of Bayelsa state, local police confirmed on Wednesday.
As many as 14 Syrian children recruited by the Islamic State (IS) group have recently been killed during the terror group's battles in Iraq, a monitor group reported on Tuesday.
About 40 people are being treated by medical personnel after a reported chemical leak at a holiday park swimming pool in east England, local police said Sunday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered on Wednesday the release of 165 young people who have been in custody over violating the new anti-protest law, official MENA news agency reported.
XI'AN, June 15 (Xinhua) -- About 30 people have been hospitalized after eating at a restaurant in Foping County, Shaanxi Province, northwest China, on Monday morning.
A patient suspected of having Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been transported from Zilina to a specialised facility at Bratislava University Hospital, confirmed Slovak Health Ministry spokesperson Peter Bubla on Saturday.
Reconstruction of the regions in northeastern Japan, which were struck four years ago by a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami, remains slow.
Irish police said on Wednesday they had arrested 60 people in Dublin, Cork and Wexford cities as part of a probe into drug dealing.
A grand jury on Monday indicted a white former police officer on a murder charge for fatally shooting a black man earlier April in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders have called on rescuers to "take all possible measures" to save lives from the cruiser ship that capsized on the Yangtze River Monday night.
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