SAN BENITO, Texas - With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum-seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez was reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.
China's nongovernmental organizations could have a wider role to play in the United Nations' sustainable development efforts, according to a UN official.
TULASIGERI, India - When top Indian officials salute the national flag anywhere in the world, women in a village at the other end of the country from New Delhi swell with pride.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited on Wednesday Okayama prefecture battered by the country's worst rain-related disaster in decades, with the casualty scores continuing to rise.
ISLAMABAD - The death toll of the suicide blast that hit a public rally in Pakistan's northwest provincial capital of Peshawar on Tuesday night rose to 21 on Wednesday, officials said, in the first major attack ahead of July 25 polls.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she can deliver a "smooth and orderly Brexit", despite a spate of resignations among senior members of her ruling Conservative Party.
SEOUL - The Republic of Korea has approved a rare screening of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea movies at a local film festival, as a diplomatic thaw gains pace following two landmark summits between their leaders.
LONDON - The British public places less trust in charities than in the average person in the street, regulators said on Tuesday, following a year in which sex abuse scandals rocked the sector.
CAIRO - About 50 kilometers east of the Egyptian capital, the construction of the Central Business District undertaken by China State Construction Engineering Corporation, or CSCEC, in the country's new administrative capital is carrying on under the scorching sun.
MOSUL, Iraq - One year after the Iraqi forces liberated the city of Mosul from the Islamic State extremists, tens of thousands of displaced residents are still living in tents, suffering in the scorching summer with temperatures of over 50 C.
MUMBAI - Tens of thousands of low-cost homes are lying empty across India even as officials race to meet a deadline to provide housing for everyone by 2022, which analysts say highlights critical shortcomings in government policy.
SYDNEY - Five major krill fishing companies on Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
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