The United Nations is very concerned that an African Union report on human rights violations in South Sudan since violence erupted more than a year ago won't be discussed at this month's AU summit, a senior UN official said on Monday.
China has urged the conflicting parties in South Sudan to launch serious and substantive negotiations as soon as possible.
The current strategy of the United States and its allies in the fight against the Islamic State is unlikely to succeed and more international coordination is needed, said experts.
Divers retrieved the second black box from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 on Tuesday from wreckage lying at the bottom of the Java Sea, giving experts essential tools with which to piece together what brought the aircraft down.
Scotland has its very own prehistoric marine reptile - no, not the mythical Loch Ness monster.
Contaminated traditional beer has killed 56 people attending a funeral on Saturday in the northeastern Tete province of Mozambique, health authorities said on Sunday.
The president of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun-hye, said on Monday that she is willing to hold a summit with Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Park Geun-hye, president of the Republic of Korea, said on Monday she had yet to see The Interview-the Hollywood movie about a fictional plot to assassinate KimJong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi criticized on Sunday the "slowness" of providing military support to his army by the US-led international coalition against Islamic State extremists.
Afghanistan's new Cabinet was unveiled on Monday after three months of wrangling following the election of President Ashraf Ghani and the formation of a "national unity government" in the wake of last year's fraud-mired election.
Children streamed back to school across Pakistan on Monday in an anxious start to a new term following last month's massacre of 134 students at an army-run school in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar.
France on Monday ordered 10,000 troops into the streets to protect sensitive sites amid the hunt for accomplices to attacks that left 17 people and the three gunmen dead.
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