India's general elections began Monday, with voting starting in two northeastern states of Assam and Tripura in the first of the nine-phase polling over six weeks.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday voiced his concern that the latest missile launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) "will lead to increased tension in the region."
Iran and the European Union (EU) will hold a meeting in Geneva on Thursday and Friday to discuss remaining issues pertaining to the implementation of an interim nuclear deal between Tehran and the major world powers, a top Iranian nuclear negotiator was quoted as saying by Tehran Times daily on Wednesday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday slammed the United States for laying out "absurd preconditions" for the resumption of six-party talks.
U.S. envoy for the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Glyn Davies arrived in Seoul Thursday night to discuss ways to resume the long-stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading the DPRK to give up its nuclear weapons program, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday called for "reasonable threshold" to be set for the early resumption of the six-party talks over Korean denuclearization.
It serves the interests of both China and the United States to push for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and preserve its peace and stability, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Monday.
Despite its intention to work with other partners to achieve denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, Washington is currently not quite ready to return to the six-party talks, U.S. experts say.
French police have said that the final death toll in Friday's train derailment south of Paris is now definitive at six, media reported on Saturday.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Saturday condemned the attack on six Chinese students in France's western Gironde Province, describing the incident as an act of xenophobia.
Eighteen finalists for Tourism Australia’s ‘Best Jobs in the World’ contest were announced Wednesday, and will travel Down Under in June for the final stage of the global competition.
China has called for calm on the Korean Peninsula, after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a fresh nuclear test last week.
A lawyer defending three of the six accused in last month's horrific New Delhi gang rape case alleged on Thursday that police have tortured his clients in a bid to coerce them into admitting the crime even as a fast-track court trying them adjourned the case till Monday.
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