Testimonies gathered from civilians who fled the recent violence in Sinjar in north Iraq " have revealed appalling accounts of killing, abduction and sexual violence perpetrated against women and children," a UN spokesman said here Thursday, citing information from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
China and Mongolia on Thursday gave a strong boost to bilateral ties by upgrading their diplomatic relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership and setting a target of expanding two-way trade to 10 billion U.S. dollars by 2020.
Some 60,000 students and supporters marched through the streets of downtown Santiago Thursday to press the government into legislating education reform.
A man whose relatives claimed he had a history of mental illness slashed eight people with a knife in Guangzhou City of south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday night, local police said.
India is building its first indigenous nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, at Visakhapatnam port in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a media report said Thursday.
Drought in northeast China's Liaoning Province has caused drinking water problems for nearly 330,000 people and 82,000 head of livestock, said authorities Thursday.
China may expand its 72-hour visa-free policy for foreigners in a bid to boost the country's tourism.
The Australian share market on Thursday pushed again to continue its six-year high passing its previous high reached on July 31, 2008 after the global financial crisis.
Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Ulan Bator Thursday for a two-day state visit, the first trip of a Chinese head of state to the landlocked neighbor in 11 years.
Thailand's National Legislative Assembly (NLA), or the post-coup interim legislature, on Thursday selected junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha as the interim prime minister, the 29th PM of the country.
South Korean shares fell to the lowest in more than a week on Thursday as a private gauge of manufacturing activity in China, the country's largest trading partner, contracted to the three-month low.
Researchers from the U.S. and Canada said Wednesday they have successfully used an experimental drug to save the lives of monkeys with Marburg virus, a deadly virus closely related to Ebola virus that killed over 1,200 in West Africa this year.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged people of British Columbia on Wednesday to vote for his Conservative Party in next year's election, saying his government has achieved a lot in the past few years.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has imposed an anti-dumping duty of 49.8 percent on Indian companies after they were found to have dumped Tertiary Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) products in the Chinese market.
"I think it's absolutely fabulous," said the 79-year-old lady Nyrnakay Siegler, who is among the hundreds of American spectators who came all the way here to watch the Chinese Peking opera show Wednesday night.
As the nation observes the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, one newspaper called for the people to champion Deng's resolute attitude when fighting corruption.
Overseas-born Australian residents can expect to live longer than those born in Australia, according to a new research released Thursday.
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