The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, Malaysia's deputy home minister said on Thursday, after earlier suspicions that they could contain multiple corpses of trafficked migrants.
Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday in a landmark vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment.
For an elite but passionate group of vintage-car collectors in Pakistan, restoring antique autos is like traveling back in time - and money seems to be no obstacle when the prize is a Lincoln convertible that belonged to an Afghan king or a Rolls-Royce once used by India's last viceroy.
Thailand's junta confirmed on Wednesday that elections will not be held until September 2016, dealing a further blow to hopes that the kingdom's generals will swiftly hand back power to a civilian government.
An Iranian security court has begun the closed-door espionage trial of an Iranian-US reporter for The Washington Post who has been detained for more than 10 months.
Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, began on Tuesday to pull out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps, where it is thought hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried.
The United Nations and Myanmar have vowed to cooperate in tackling human-trafficking issues both nationally and regionally, the UN said in a statement published on Wednesday following a brief visit by the UN secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar to a camp for rescued migrants.
Iraq's Shiite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive the Islamic State group from the western province of Anbar, giving the operation an openly sectarian code name that could infuriate its Sunni Muslim population.
A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in US detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until they were released last year in exchange for US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
A German newspaper reported on Wednesday that the German government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel had exaggerated the possibility of a no-spy agreement with the United States in the run-up to Germany's general election in 2013.
Torrential rain left much of Texas swamped on Wednesday after wild weather killed at least 28 people in the United States and Mexico, and Houston's mayor warned more flooding could be in store.
Britain's new all-Conservative government unveiled its plans for power on Wednesday, including laws to hold a referendum on European Union membership, give Scotland more autonomy and toughen immigration policies.
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