US prosecutors are preparing to unveil drug trafficking charges against the head of Venezuela's National Guard, according to people familiar with the case, as the United States investigates the suspected involvement of senior Venezuelan officials in the cocaine trade.
Iran violated a UN resolution in October when it test-launched a medium-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a UN panel of experts has concluded in a report that could lead to sanctions.
A draft resolution to be submitted to the UN Security Council takes "explicit" aim at the Islamic State group and its lucrative trade in oil, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Wednesday.
Turkey will establish a military base in Qatar as part of a defense agreement aimed at helping them confront "common enemies", Turkey's ambassador to Qatar said on Wednesday.
The announcement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency said the alliance will be Saudi-led and is being established because terrorism "should be fought by all means, and collaboration should be made to eliminate it".
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his office was raided by federal investigators on Tuesday on the orders of Narendra Modi, in the latest clash between the feisty local politician and India's prime minister.
New Zealanders chose a new flag design on Tuesday that will be put up as a challenger to their current flag in a March vote.
Germany will reduce its migrant influx, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her conservative party on Monday, insisting that she's still confident her diplomatic efforts will work and Europe will pass the "historic test" posed by the refugee crisis.
At least 43 police officers were killed on Monday when a bus in a convoy in northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge, falling about 20 meters in an accident that brought the sad state of the South American nation's roads into focus.
Pakistan hanged eight more convicted murderers on Tuesday, a day ahead of the first anniversary of an extremist attack that prompted authorities to lift a six-year moratorium on the death penalty.
Poor migrant workers and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains, including those of Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, the world's largest retailer and the world's largest seafood restaurant chain, an Associated Press investigation found.
A ban on so-called emerging tobacco products will be phased in beginning on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health on Monday.
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