Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, said Thursday that it promoted a smaller director- level personnel, including vice president, senior managing director and managing director, as part of its annual reshuffle.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered full scale investigation into bomb attacks on the Central Mosque in northwest Kano that left 35 killed and 150 injured on Friday.
A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters designated on Sunday Islamic State (IS) organization, also known as Daesh, as a terror group, official news agency MENA reported.
The Egyptian cabinet led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab approved on Wednesday a draft anti-terrorism law incriminating any group that attempts to disturb general order or harm social peace as "a terrorist entity. "
The United States top military officer said during an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan on Saturday that the momentum in the battle with Islamic State (IS) militant group was "starting to turn", but predicted the campaign against the group would take several years.
Egyptian anti-government militants have brought the ghost of the Islamic State (IS) from Iraq and Syria to Egypt as Sinai-based, al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al- Maqdis (ABM) group has recently sworn allegiance to the IS, Egyptian experts said.
New Zealand scientists involved in a discovery that has unlocked one of the secrets of evolution have claimed the findings could help understand the origins of cancer and other biological problems.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group executed a total of 17 Syrians over the past three days in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a monitoring group reported late on Wednesday.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group executed 67 tribesmen in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Sunday, as part of mass killings in the past few days against a Sunni tribe which resisted the advance of the militant group, a provincial security source said.
The Pentagon chief on Thursday praised the progress made against the Islamic State (IS) as U.S.-led coalition continues to implement a comprehensive strategy aimed at destroying the militant group.
The Islamic State (IS) group is amassing wealth at an "unprecedented" pace, generating tens of millions of dollars per month, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
Egypt's army on Thursday killed 15 suspected militants in a security raid and arrested 25 others suspected of being members of the extremist Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, security source told Xinhua.
Members of European Parliament who are friendly to China re-launched the EU-China friendship group within the new European Parliament here Wednesday evening.
French cable and telecommunications company Altice is in direct negotiations to buy Portugal Telecom (PT) as the Portuguese group's merger with Brazilian group Oi is faltering, according to Portuguese media reports.
The United States reiterated on Monday that it is not targeting the Syrian government in its ongoing airstrikes on the Islamic State militant group.
An alleged Islamic State (IS) plot to attack U.S. subways has raised concern about the reach of the terror group, and begs the question of whether militants have the capability to hit the United States.
The United States underestimated the rise of the Islamic State now running amok in Iraq and Syria while overrating the Iraqi military's ability to fight the extremist group, President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview to be aired on Sunday night.
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