Fresh results from Myanmar's election on Tuesday showed the opposition taking control of most regional assemblies as well as forming the next government, handing Aung San Suu Kyi sweeping powers and reshaping the political landscape.
A Thai court's examination of 500 witnesses in a case against 88 suspected human traffickers will take as long as two years, a court official said on Tuesday.
The Japanese government is demanding that a UN envoy must retract remarks that 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are involved in forms of paid dating that can involve sex.
Australian authorities have regained control of a controversial immigration detention center, officials said on Tuesday.
Japan and South Korea will hold talks on Wednesday centering on the "comfort women" issue that has been a major contributor to soured ties between the two nations.
Moscow acknowledged for the first time on Monday that a terrorist attack could have caused last month's Russian plane crash in Egypt, as thousands more tourists were evacuated from the country.
Violence in Burundi is in danger of escalating to mass atrocity crimes, the United Nations warned on Monday, but the tiny African state said it was "not in flames" and would work to allay fears of an impending genocide.
Once bustling with sinewy young men like any other farming village in Mali, Kodjan is starting to look distinctly gray.
The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned on Monday after the football team and others on campus openly revolted over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured US President Barack Obama on Monday that he remained committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they sought to mend ties strained by acrimony over Middle East diplomacy and Iran.
The government spokesman said a shooting spree at a police training center that killed five people, including two US instructors, took place in a canteen in the compound.
It's early morning, but already "Medicine Baba" Omkarnath Sharma is pounding the pavement in one of New Delhi's upscale neighborhoods, collecting the well-heeled's leftover pills, capsules and syrups.
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