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.
The Islamic republic hanged 16 "terrorist elements" on Saturday in response to an earlier bloody border attack.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said that tsunami waves at 30 cm high were observed in Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture at about 3:07 am local time after a 7.1- magnitude quake hit off Fukushima prefecture in northeastern Japan early Saturday morning.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, at 1:10 am Saturday Beijing Time.
US transportation safety officials will hold an investigative hearing December 10-11 on the July crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco, in which three passengers were killed and more than 180 injured.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) returned six the Republic of Korea's nationals who have been detained in Pyongyang back to Seoul through the truce village of Panmunjom.
China and the European Union (EU) on Thursday agreed to push forward China-EU relations by fighting against protectionism, sticking to an open market and strengthening bilateral cooperation.
Pakistani officials said that three people were injured in continued shelling by Indian forces on the Pakistani side of the Working Boundary in Punjab province.
The European Union will seek talks with the US over the alleged spying on its European allies under a Franco-German initiative.
President Barack Obama must be used to the drill by now — picking up the phone to get an earful from another foreign leader venting at rampant US spies.
Restaurants and shops across London Chinatown shut down on Tuesday in a protest against what business owners describe as "discriminatory" raids by the UK Border Agency.
San Francisco's commuter trains lumbered back into operation for the first time in five days early on Tuesday after union workers reached a tentative labor deal with management, ending a strike that paralyzed the nation's fifth-largest rapid transit network.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that India welcomes Chinese investment and the Chinese proposal to establish a Chinese Industrial Park in the country.
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