Police in two northern Chinese regions Tuesday said they have arrested some 1,500 cult members over the past two years.
At least two Russian tourists were killed, one went missing and several others seriously injured when a vehicle plunged into a river in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, said police.
The Jinnah International Airport in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi reopened to passengers on Monday afternoon following Sunday night's terrorist attack that killed 19 people and injured 25 others, local media and officials said.
At least four people including three soldiers and a child were killed and a dozen others injured when a suicide blast hit an army check post in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan on Monday, officials said.
Two former environment officials in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were jailed on Monday for dereliction of duty in a river pollution case that happened last year.
All the 10 militants involved in Sunday night's attack at Jinnah Airport in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi were killed in a joint operation launched by the Pakistan army, Airport Security Force (ASF) and Police officers said.
Nine people were sentenced to death for terrorism in northwest China's Xinjiang on Thursday.
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 28 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in absentia after they were found guilty of violence in the Upper Egyptian province of Fayyoum in March, state news agency MENA reported.
A tanker exploded and caught fire on the sea near Himeji city in Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan Thursday morning, leaving one man missing and four others injured, local press reported.
Thai former acting caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, together with 32 other prominent political figures, were released on Thursday after being detained for three to seven days.
At least 21 people were killed and eight others injured in a fire that occurred at a sanatorium in Jangseong, some 300 kms south of the South Korean capital city of Seoul, early on Wednesday, local broadcaster YTN reported.
Russia said Monday it would respect the will of Ukrainians in their presidential election, but warned Kiev against resuming a military operation in the country's southeastern regions.
The British Museum will unveil eight mummies from ancient Egypt and Sudan through high technology to visitors in London from Thursday on.
Explosion caused by vehicle collisions occurred around 8 a.m. Thursday at an open market in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, witnesses said.
More than 3500 Chinese workers evacuated from Vietnam arrived in Haikou, capital of Hainan Province on Tuesday after around 20 hours aboard four ships.
Over 80 militants were killed and several others injured in an overnight operation launched by Pakistan army in the country's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, local media reported.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday an Islamist supporter of toppled president Mohamed Morsi to death, 18 others to life imprisonment for violence and murder charges in reaction to Morsi's removal last year, the official MENA news agency reported.
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