Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group made mistakes but that does not justify a military coup, the group's official lawyer, Adel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsood, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
The provincial police chief of southern Afghan province of Helmand escaped unharmed a suicidal car bomb attack, which wounded three policemen, officials said on Monday.
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the president of a Hong Kong registered investment group to mark the conclusion of a 290-million-euro (374 million U.S. dollars) property investment in the eastern Mediterranean island.
The Egyptian presidency said on Monday that all options are open in dealing with the kidnappers of the Sinai soldiers and securing their release.
Eleven runaway suspected terrorists linked to a deadly attack on April 23 in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been captured, local police sources said on Monday.
A group of Sudan's Central Reserve Forces in Sudan's west Darfur region on Sunday pulled out of their camp with weapons and staged a "mutiny," the official SUNA news agency reported.
A ten-member splinter group of Mon Peace Defence has returned to government's legal fold in Myanmar, official media New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.
The horrible hostage crisis at a remote Algerian gas field facility, which drew international attention over the past week, seems to have reached a breakoff after the Interior Ministry announced Saturday the death toll from both the attackers and the hostages. However, a deeper look leaves several questions unanswered.
An operation launched by the Algerian army to free hostages detained by an armed group in a gas field facility in the southernmost province of Illizi has ended, the official APS news agency reported Thursday, without providing the death toll of the hostages.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called M23's renewed military campaign "an affront to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the DRC and in violation of international law."