Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for President Bashar al-Assad in the midst of a devastating civil war, with opponents dismissing the poll as a charade.
Monarch dogged by scandals and health problems in recent years
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Borbon, a tall former Olympic yachtsman, will take the throne largely unscathed by scandals that have battered the royal family.
A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador's long civil war was sworn in as president on Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American nation.
Japan started work on an underground ice wall on Monday at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, freezing the soil under broken reactors to slow the buildup of radioactive water, officials said.
A long-awaited Palestinian unity government was sworn in before President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday after a landmark reconciliation deal with the Islamist group Hamas that has infuriated Israel.
A suspected French jihadist who spent time in Syria has been arrested over the shooting deaths of three people at a Belgian Jewish museum, prosecutors said on Sunday, crystallizing fears that European radicals will parlay their experiences in Syria into terrorism back home.
Critics say released Afghans could 'have ability to rejoin fight'
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is angry at being kept in the dark over a deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for captured US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, a senior source said on Monday.
A look at the origins and traditions of Duanwu Festival and how people celebrate across the country
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