A senior German lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party on Wednesday warned the Greek government not to backtrack on its reform commitments.
A Myanmar court sentenced 153 Chinese citizens to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of illegal logging in the northern state of Kachin, Thailand's The Nation reported on Wednesday.
The children had all been shown videos of beheadings and were told by their trainers with the Islamic State group that they would perform one someday. First, they had to practice technique. More than 120 boys were each given a doll and a sword and were told: cut off its head.
Hollywood actor George Clooney launched an initiative on Monday to track down and help bring to justice those funding and profiting from Africa's deadliest conflicts in a bid to fight corruption in war zones.
Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "Shhhhh"!
British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in a $100 million, 10-year project to scan the heavens.
Striking French ferry workers blocked access to the loading terminal for the Eurotunnel that links France and England, delaying cargo and passengers hoping to cross the English Channel.
A policeman and civilian were killed in overnight clashes hours before the start of Burundi's presidential elections, already hit by opposition boycotts and protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Tuesday it had no interest in following Iran down the path of nuclear dialogue, insisting it was already a nuclear weapons state and therefore beyond any logical comparison with Teheran.
The UN Security Council backed Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers on Monday, but the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards attacked the resolution, underlining powerful opposition to the deal.
Some 8,000 people with HIV in war-torn eastern Ukraine face a critical shortage of medicine and their supply will run out in mid-August unless a blockade is lifted, a UN AIDS envoy has warned.
Members of the UN Security Council have yet to reach an agreement on whether an international tribunal should be established to try those allegedly responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand's ambassador to the UN, told reporters on Monday.
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