The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been hit by what it describes as its worst drought in a century, which could worsen its food shortages.
When the Islamic State fighters burst into the Iraqi village of Eski Mosul, Sheikh Abdullah Ibrahim knew his wife was in trouble.
The Republic of Korea's foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, will visit Tokyo on Sunday, the first such trip in four years, as the US allies prepare to mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ties amid a chill because of feuds over the wartime past.
The International Monetary Fund has lost patience with both sides in the Greek debt talks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia must defend itself if threatened, as the US warned against a return to "Cold War status" after Moscow announced plans to boost its nuclear arsenal.
Arab airstrikes hit military targets throughout Yemen on Wednesday and expanded into one western province for the first time, despite peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending almost three months of fighting.
A 65-year-old Middle East respiratory syndrome patient died on June 6 at a hospital in Lower Saxony, a spokesman for the Niels-Stensen-Kliniken said on Tuesday.
Rachel Dolezal carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade in the US northwest, but that world is falling apart following the disclosure by her parents that she was a white woman who for years has posed as African-American.
Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is still under attack in Britain, where the image persists of a military genius consumed by a fanaticism comparable with Hitler.
The Philippines' largest rebel group retired nearly 150 guerrillas and handed over 75 firearms for decommissioning on Tuesday to encourage the nation's Congress to pass a proposed law giving minority Muslims self-rule.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday for a top Islamist party leader over atrocities committed during the war of independence more than four decades ago, paving the way for his execution.
Two South Korean hospitals are conducting experimental treatment on patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome, injecting them with blood plasma from recovering patients, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday as four new cases were reported.
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