Japan has restarted a nuclear reactor for the first time under new safety standards put in place after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeking to reassure a nervous public that they are safe.
The Republic of Korea demanded an apology from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Tuesday as the ROK ramped up border security following landmine blasts it blamed on its northern neighbor.
Funding prospects are "bleak", and impoverished Syrian refugees face more cuts in food aid, the head of the World Food Programme said in an interview after inspecting the bare refrigerator of a refugee family and meeting boys forced to swap school for work to help their families survive.
The Afghan president called on Pakistan on Monday to crack down on the Taliban after a suicide car bombing earlier in the day near the international airport in Kabul killed five people.
Turkish Air Forces launched airstrikes against the positions of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party - known as the PKK - in southeastern Turkey late on Monday and early on Tuesday, a military statement said.
Greece and its international lenders clinched a multibillion-euro bailout agreement on Tuesday after marathon talks through the night, officials said, raising hopes that aid could be disbursed in time for a major debt repayment due next week.
Sweden's sexual assault inquiry into Julian Assange is deadlocked over a dispute with Ecuador regarding the WikiLeaks founder's asylum status, Swedish officials said on Monday.
Officials in towns downstream from where millions of gallons of mine waste spilled into a southwest Colorado river are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to their water supply.
The police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson, Missouri, during a fourth consecutive night of demonstrations marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong asked the Indian government on Tuesday to tell Mahavir Mandir - an Indian trust - to abandon its plan to build a near-replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple.
A 9-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.
Long dead but little forgotten, US soldiers who disappeared across the globe during World War II are being reunited with their loved ones in a dogged push to find and bring home their bodies.
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