Myanmar will ban the export of raw timber logs from April 1, choking off profits in the sector as the government steps up efforts to save forests.
The European Union and Ukraine signed the core elements of a political association agreement on Friday, committing to the same deal that then-Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovich rejected in November.
Thailand's general election held last month was declared invalid on Friday after disruption by opposition protesters, setting the scene for talks about new polls between warring political parties to end months of deadlock.
Google co-founder Larry Page on Wednesday condemned US government snooping on the Internet as a threat to democracy.
In an effort to help residents of the United States prepare for the effects of global warming, the White House unveiled a new initiative on Wednesday to make climate data widely available to citizens and companies.
Venezuelan intelligence agents arrested an opposition mayor on Wednesday who was accused of stoking violent protests, and another was jailed for 10 months in the latest moves against rivals of President Nicolas Maduro.
The mayor of Colombia's capital Bogota was ousted from his post on Wednesday, President Juan Manuel Santos said, in a controversial decision that could affect May presidential elections and a peace process with left-wing rebels.
Expectations high for president's speech on development, peace
The Libyan government vowed on Thursday to fight terrorism in its first acknowledgment that "terrorist groups" were behind dozens of attacks against security services and Westerners.
Warning comes as Crimean forces free Ukrainian naval commander
The crisis over Crimea is more than a dispute over whether the strategic Black Sea peninsula should be considered Russian or Ukrainian. At its root is a deeper issue: Russia's simmering anger over its treatment by the West since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
Seven Taliban suicide attackers stormed a police station in the center of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 policemen in a major assault ahead of the presidential election.
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