The Save the Children aid group reported another migrant tragedy on Tuesday, with survivors saying dozens of their fellow passengers fell out of their rubber boat and likely drowned in the Mediterranean as a rescue vessel neared.
French legislators were scheduled to approve a new law on Tuesday that grants the state sweeping powers to spy on its citizens, despite criticism from rights groups that the bill is vague and intrusive.
German train drivers started a five-day strike on Tuesday, their longest walkout yet in an increasingly bitter dispute with the country's main railway operator.
Surveying her destroyed cornfield in northern Botswana, Minsozie Kasaira wishes for a return to the days of elephant hunting.
Kenya's deputy president has said there is "no room" for homosexuality in Kenyan society, the latest comments from an African government to anger activists and likely also to annoy Western donors who say gay people are targeted on the continent.
A district in Indonesia's Aceh has passed legislation banning unmarried men and women from riding together on motorbikes, a lawmaker said on Monday, the latest new Islamic regulation in the conservative province.
Iraqi government forces drove the Islamic State group out of Abu Mustafa's hometown of Tikrit over a month ago, but he has yet to return, fearing the Shiite militias that now patrol its bombed and battered streets.
Nepal's government urged foreign rescue workers in the quake-hit capital to return home on Monday.
The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen sent a "limited" force to the city of Aden on Sunday, Yemeni sources said, in what would be its first ground deployment inside the country.
In late January, a former deputy of conservative ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jailed for embezzlement raised explosive allegations that have now spurred speculation that Ahmadinejad himself could face charges.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face up to Japan's imperialistic history and apologize for wartime brutalities.
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