An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced 25 supporters of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in absentia to 25 years, three others to ten years and seven others to three years over belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and inciting anti-government violence, state-run Ahram news website reported.
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will start on Nov. 17, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the China Securities Regulatory Commission jointly announced on Monday.
Hollywood film director Oliver Stone arrived here Thursday to discuss his film with fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Unknown assailants shot dead a senior Muslim cleric in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday night in the latest incidents of insecurity targeting religious leaders in the region.
At least 30 members of the Islamic Shiite group have been confirmed dead in Monday's attack by suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber while on a procession in Potiskum in Nigeria's northeast Yobe State.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday visited landslide-affected residents in a central area where rescuers are working hard to search for nearly 200 people who are still estimated to be missing.
Bangladesh Jamaat enforces nationwide strike over chief's death penalty
A novel mosquito trap that lures its prey using human scent and other smells favored by the critter is creating a buzz as Japan frets about the spread of dengue fever, the Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the government to fully support rescue efforts as around 300 people are feared dead from a landslide in central Sri Lanka, an official said here on Wednesday.
Brazil's women's road race cycling champions Marcia Fernandes Silva and Nayara Gomes Ramos have been suspended from competition for doping.
Renowned intellectuals from around the world have joined an international outcry, demanding justice in the case of 43 students missing since late September in Mexico, local media reported Wednesday.
The United States said on Tuesday that one of three Americans held by the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been released and was heading home.
At least six people have been killed since Saturday when tropical storm Trudy battered Mexico, local Civil Protection authorities said Sunday.
Greece has invested approximately 600,000 euros (766,674 U.S. dollars) in the past four years for excavation works at the ancient city of Amphipolis in northern Greece where a spectacular Alexander the Great era tomb has been discovered this summer, the Culture Ministry said.
Austria is planning to construct an ornithological observatory to track migratory birds, the Austria Press Agency reported on Wednesday.
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who has been infected with the Ebola virus could have become infected after accidentally brushing her face with a glove as she was taking off her isolation suit.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday confirmed a Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola virus disease.
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