U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday repeated a call for recognition of the massacre of 1 million to 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Thirteen insurgents have been killed in operations launched by Afghan forces and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the ISAF's Regional Command-East in a press release on Wednesday.
After lengthy and hot debate, France's legislators gave the green light to same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, the Socialists' strongest social reform that sparked series of violent protests and homophobic attacks.
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit off Japan's Hokkaido at around 12: 06 local time Friday, said Japan' s Meteorological Agency.
Casualties given by sources have been in contradiction after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit southeastern Iran on Tuesday.
At least three people were killed and over 22 others injured when a bomb hit a camp of peace militiamen in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency on Thursday afternoon, local media reported.
Archaeologists said they have discovered the trackway of a swimming theropod in southwest China's Sichuan Province, helping to confirm that non-avian theropods were capable of swimming.
Election authorities on Sunday rejected nomination papers of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf over his misuse of powers on the last day of the scrutiny of papers of thousands of candidates, local media reported.
At least eight school children were killed and 12 others were injured Thursday when a school bus skidded off the mountain road and fell into a deep gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
A total of 13 children out of 78 were killed in a fire that broke out with a mosque school in Yangon's Botataung township early Tuesday, local authorities confirmed.
The China Earthquake Networks Center is reporting a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan's Nantou County on Wednesday morning.
At least three people were shot dead in two western Bangladesh districts Monday as riots erupted last week over the conviction of the country's largest Islamist party leader for war crimes continued to the fifth consecutive day.
At least six policemen were killed in an ambush in Malaysia's Sabah state, police said Sunday, as authorities tried to ease tensions amid continued standoff with Sulu gunmen.
A stampede that caused the deaths of four students in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday was attributed to dereliction of duty, according to local officials.
Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham and three of his accomplices, all of whom were convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, will be executed on March 1, a local court in southwest China said Wednesday.
Seven people died and 18 others were injured following Wednesday's fatal car explosion in Zhanjiang, a coastal city in south China's Guangdong province, the local government said Thursday.
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