Initial poll count on Wednesday shows that Egypt's former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sweep the presidential election with an overwhelming majority of votes.
A gunman shot five people at a home in Tulsa, Oklahoma late Saturday, killing four of them and injuring the fifth.
China's Defense Ministry called Japan's remarks on the Diaoyu Islands included in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone "absolutely groundless."
Iran struck a historic deal Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear program in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement.
The death toll from the roof collapse at a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga on Thursday has risen to 52.
Egypt has decided to recall its ambassador to Turkey and summon the Turkish envoy here, the Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted by state-run Ahram online on Saturday.
The United States spied on the Netherlands from 1946 to 1968, the Dutch NRC newspaper quoted Snowden documents as showing on Saturday.
India Saturday successfully tested its nuclear-capable ballistic missile Dhanush from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of the Orissa state.
Seven skiers and mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche Saturday on the snowy North Alps mountain range in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan.
Governments at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw on Friday agreed a set of decisions on ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and the degradation of forests.
British police say the two suspects suspected of holding three women in the slavery were also arrested in the 1970s. Police did not provide details.
Some 9.3 million Syrian people need humanitarian assistance, but continued fighting has constrained the aid workers, a UN spokesperson said Thursday.
Three women enslaved for 30 years have been rescued from a house in London including one who has spent her entire life in domestic servitude.
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