Australia raised the threat level of a terrorist attack against law enforcement officers to "high" on Tuesday, federal police said.
Activists from the Republic of Korea launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets on Monday night, ignoring calls for restraint.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea sought on Tuesday to discredit a man who claims to have been a prisoner in the DPRK who recently admitted inaccuracies in parts of a book about alleged abuses in the country of his birth.
The US Congress and President Barack Obama are on a fast track toward confrontation over sanctions on Iran.
A protest involving hundreds of asylum seekers at an Australian immigration detention center in Papua New Guinea, some of whom had sewn their lips shut in protest, has ended without serious violence, authorities in both countries said on Tuesday.
The UN Security Council issued its first formal reaction on Monday to the threat posed by Boko Haram, urging the Nigerian militants to "disarm and demobilize".
Cameroon's army has freed 24 of about 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighboring Nigeria, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Boko Haram said it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory, life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse.
India's latest tiger census shows a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild, raising hopes that conservation efforts are working, officials said on Tuesday.
Russia on Tuesday denied as "absolute nonsense" the latest accusations by Kiev that Moscow had sent hundreds of troops over the border into Ukraine.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told a group of US senators and congressmen on Monday that his country is open to greater diplomatic and trade ties, but the congressional delegation did not meet with Cuban President Raul Castro.
Adeba Shaker, a 14-year-old from Iraq's minority Yazidi sect, recalled the day when she smiled again for the first time since her abduction by Islamic State militants.
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