In Syria's Latakia province, in the northwest region, workers roll the country's first locally made cigars, a new product that's being launched despite the devastating civil war that's in its fifth year.
Solar Impulse 2 took off from Myanmar's second biggest city of Mandalay on Monday and headed for Chongqing, the fifth flight of a landmark journey to circumnavigate the globe powered solely by the sun.
Grubby satchels, helmets, rusty knives and chunky radios are strewed around Dinh Van Loc's front room, transforming his house in Vietnam's capital into an abandoned battlefield.
Indiana's governor defended a new state law widely criticized as fostering discrimination against gay people, and said on Sunday it wasn't a mistake to have enacted it.
Retried on corruption charges, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty on Monday of accepting bribes. It was the latest chapter in the downfall of a man who once hoped to lead the country to a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Nigerians waited on Monday for the first results of the country's general election, potentially the closest contest since the end of military rule in 1999, after a weekend vote marred by confusion, arguments and sporadic violence.
Bolivian President Evo Morales' governing party suffered its most serious setback after nearly a decade in power in local and regional elections on Sunday, according to unofficial results in the South American country.
Australia has joined other major nations that have recently announced they will require their airlines to have two people in the cockpit of commercial flights at all times.
Japan's central government muscled the governor of Okinawa out of the way on Monday in a row over the construction of a US air base, suspending his stop-work order in the latest fraught chapter of a two-decade row.
The Philippines military chief said a monthlong offensive against hard-line Muslim rebels in the south has ended after 139 insurgents were killed, 12 others were captured and their bomb-making strongholds seized by troops.
Inclusiveness may be the most appropriate word to summarize what President Xi Jinping tried to convey to the world in the speech he delivered at the opening of the Boao Forum on Saturday, as it underlies all the strategic moves China has initiated as a responsible power for regional and world development.
The State Council, China's cabinet, has vowed to break the ideological and institutional barriers that obstruct system innovations and tap the potential of society, and called for the accelerated implementation of an innovation-driven development strategy.
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