The Islamic State group's takeover of the Iraqi provincial capital, Ramadi, has prompted criticism from US Defense Secretary Ash Carter and raised new questions about the Obama administration's strategy to fight the extremist group.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski conceded defeat to conservative challenger Andrzej Duda in Sunday's presidential election, a result that will set alarm bells ringing for the government, which faces its own election race later this year.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced on Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a US supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Rodolfo Chagoya was about to cut firewood near the El Sol ranch in western Mexico when suddenly, he said, "I heard 'rat-at-at-at!' It was a horrible thing."
President Xi Jinping recently sent a message to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, congratulating her on Liberia's victory in its fight against the deadly disease Ebola.
The people of Ireland have backed same-sex marriage in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a traditionally Roman Catholic country that decriminalized homosexuality only two decades ago.
Mass graves and suspected human trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country's home minister said on Sunday.
A Cleveland police officer was found not guilty on Saturday in the shooting deaths of two unarmed black people after a high-speed car chase in 2012, one in a series of cases that have raised questions over police conduct and race relations in the United States.
The US National Security Agency has begun winding down its collection and storage of US phone records.
Australia is set to introduce new counterterrorism laws, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday, with the package expected to include stripping dual nationals who are linked to terrorism of their citizenship.
Mathematician John Nash, 86, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said on Sunday.
Editor's Note: Following is the full text of a national teleconference address by Premier Li Keqiang on May 12.
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