The Pakistani military announced on Sunday that the security forces have launched a major operation against the local and foreign militants in the restive North Waziristan tribal region.
Special inspection teams dispatched to local regions have found slack management of the ongoing anti-decadence campaign among some local officials, according to China's anti-graft organ.
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Tuesday reduced the curfew period to four hours from the current seven hours.
China will harshly crack down on terrorist attacks and maintain lasting stability in Xinjiang, the central leadership of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) said on Monday.
At least six cities in China have loosened controls over the property market and more are expected to do the same as local governments are worried that sluggish home sales may drag on the economy.
Two anti-government protesters were killed and 22 others injured in a gun and grenade attack here early Thursday, local media reported.
China's banks are faced with increasing risks born out of shadow banking, local government debt, bad loans in industries with overcapacity, and looming house price declines, an economist warned on Thursday.
French court opened a preliminary investigation against former top adviser of President Francois Hollande on allegations of conflict of interest, local media reported Tuesday.
China's top legislature is considering giving a greenlight to bond sales by provincial-level governments, under strict conditions.
A passenger ship with 471 people aboard, mostly high school students, was sinking in waters off South Korea's southwest coast, local broadcaster YTN reported.
Japan and the United States on Tuesday confirmed to move the training involving controversial U.S. MV-22 Ospreys out of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, according to local media.
The second phase of India's mammoth nine-phase general elections kicked off Wednesday, with polling beginning in six constituencies across four northeastern states.
The 5.3-magnitude quake that hit southwest China's Yunnan Province on Saturday morning has affected 71,200 residents, injuring 32 people, local authorities said Sunday.
Eight people were killed and 28 others injured on Sunday in clashes amid the ongoing local elections in Turkey, private Dogan News Agency reported.
Four assailants were killed while three people were seriously wounded in Taliban attack at a hotel frequented by foreigners in central Kabul capital of Afghanistan on Thursday night, spokesman for Interior Ministry said.
Flight takeoffs and landings at Germany's Bremen airport on Monday were stopped for more than an hour due to explosion danger caused by an explosive chemicals leak near the runaway, local media reported.
Shares of Chinese automobile maker BYD soared on Wednesday on stock exchanges after its new energy sedans were granted access to the markets of Beijing and Shanghai.
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