Pakistan removing legal hurdles to execute convicts
Turkish businessmen have started to feel the impact of Russian economic crisis especially in the field of tourism, suitcase trade and exports, Turkish industry chambers and tourism professional said here on Saturday.
Cambodian local authorities said Tuesday that up to 90 people in a remote village in the Battambang province of northwestern Cambodia have been tested positive for HIV/AIDS.
Pakistan has appointed renowned journalist and writer Dr Maleha Lodhi as the country's permanent representative at the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Five hostages have been released from a Sydney cafe, which has been held siege by an armed man showing Islamic flags on Monday.
Australia has been put on a nationwide alert on Monday for possible terror threats after an armed man suspected of being related to radical Islamists took up to 40 hostages in central Sydney and forced part of the city into lockdown.
There has never been a secret prison run by a United States agency in Thailand where suspected terrorists might otherwise have been held or tortured, said a high- level Thai government official on Thursday.
Turkish government faces stern challenges to address the worsening corruption problem in the country as the world marks the International anti-corruption Day on Monday.
Authorities in Yunxian county, Yunnan province, confirmed that they are investigating sexual assaults against at least three high school girls. The confirmation comes days after allegations surfaced in the media that a dozen or more girls had been forced into prostitution.
By the end of November, nearly 40 provincial or higher level officials had been snared this year in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
Imagine how a nine-year-old child with potential brain cancer might feel when he is led into an MRI machine. Imagine his reaction as a series of loud bangs echoes around him as he sits with a white plastic tube just inches away from his face. He cannot sit up, cannot wiggle, cannot move at all, or it will compromise the integrity of the test.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Tuesday 188 people to death over charges of murdering 11 police officers in 2013, state-run Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Wheels have been set in motion to make history in Sri Lanka after incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa called for snap presidential elections on Jan. 8 and sought a third term.
The monopoly of state-owned defense contractors is fading further into memory, as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has opened its tender process to private sector players.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health warned on Monday that a new bird flu strain has been detected in Europe, UN spokesman Staphane Dujarric told reporters here.
Eleven people were arrested in Belgium on Thursday over demonstrations held earlier in November which turned violent.
Most areas of the United Sates have been gripped by severe wintry weather characterized by heavy snowfall and drastic temperature drops since the weekend, with a dozen of states recording temperatures falling below freezing.
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