AFP, Beijing :A Chinese assistant foreign minister has been dismissed from his post and placed under investigation, Beijing said Friday, amid a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign.Zhang...
AFP, Washington :US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke over Thursday to discuss the crises in the Middle East...
Reuters, Beirut :A new Syrian opposition group linked to a prominent cleric said on Thursday President Bashar al-Assad would have to step down as part...
Agencies :Pakistan and India on Thursday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an agreement barring them from attacking each other’s atomic facilities in the...
BBC, Washington :Two-thirds of cancer cases are not influenced by heredity or risky habits, but lack of biological luck, say scientists.Most types of cancer cannot...
AP, Creve Coeur :Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban...
AFP, Jerusalem :Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won another term as leader of the ruling Likud party ahead of a snap election, his group said...
AP, Riyadh :Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man on Wednesday convicted of smuggling “large quantities” of heroin, the kingdom’s state news agency reported, bringing the...
Reuters, Ramallah :Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on Wednesday, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a...
AP, Moscow :Russian President Vladimir Putin has used his New Year’s speech to hail his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula as an achievement that...
AFP, Taji Base :American and allied soldiers are aiming to rapidly train thousands of Iraqi security personnel in the “bare minimum basics” needed to join...
Reuters, Geneva :The Ebola virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone, and the number of known cases globally has now exceeded...
