An Egyptian court on Wednesday overturned the death and life sentences against 36 Islamists over murder and violence charges, official news agency MENA reported.
A bus carrying about 30 passengers was kidnapped Monday morning by suspected Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram in Tourou, a town in Cameroon's Far-North Region bordering Nigeria, military sources who declined to be named told Xinhua via phone.
As many as 15 people were killed and dozens of others wounded on Monday in government airstrikes on a rebel-held area east of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported.
A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday that the country's national security forces were capable enough of dealing with security threats and overcoming the security challenges.
Heavy fighting involving a main Moro rebel group and its breakaway group erupted late Thursday in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, forcing thousands of civilians to evacuate, a military official said.
Winter influenza has caused 126 deaths here since Jan. 2, 2015, according to a press release by the Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the Hong Kong Department of Health on Thursday.
At least 32 people were confirmed dead and 12 others are still missing in Wednesday's TransAsia Airways plane crash, the island's response authority said late Thursday.
After landing in Antarctica, Liang Hong put on a wedding dress watched by penguins.
Egypt decided to deport jailed reporter Peter Greste back to his native Australia, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
Thousand of protests from Kenya's Massai community on Thursday staged fierce demonstrations in Narok, about 120 km northwest of Nairobi, to protest the arrest of their local leaders.
A gas delivery truck explosion early Thursday at a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City killed two people, including a minor and a woman, and injured 66 others, officials said, correcting the former reported death toll of 7.
Forty-nine Philippine police personnel were believed to be killed in the Sunday gunbattle with Muslim rebels in the southern province of Maguindanao, local police said on Monday.
The death toll from clashes on Sunday between protesters and the police has risen to 23, as Egypt marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, the Health Ministry statement said on Monday.
At least 10 people were killed and 13 were injured after a Greek F16 jet crashed on Monday at the airbase of Los Llanos in the central province of Albacete, in Spain, the Spanish Defense Ministry reported.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters on Monday went on rampage in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa, killing residents and burning down buildings, local security sources and witnesses said.
Forensic tests by Austrian experts on the presumed remains of 43 missing Mexican students have yielded no new leads, Mexico's Attorney General's Office (PGR) said on Tuesday.
A total of 106 official vehicles expropriated by the Chinese central government were auctioned Sunday for a combined 6.6 million yuan (1.06 million U.S. dollars) amid enthusiastic bidding.
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