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 UN inspection team is standing ready again to head for Syria to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons in the country, a long-waited breakthrough if approved by Syria.
The Philippine Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that US spy planes are providing crucial intelligence about the activities of Chinese vessels in the South China Sea.
Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a seized Pyongyang ship carrying arms from Cuba under sacks of brown sugar on Tuesday found 12 engines for MiG-21 fighter jets and five military vehicles that officials said resembled missile control centers.
The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.
Egypt faced the prospect of fresh bloodshed on Thursday after the country's army-backed rulers signalled they would move soon to disperse thousands of supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
UN experts will travel to Syria as soon as possible to investigate three alleged incidents of chemical weapons attacks, the United Nations announced Wednesday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Pakistan late on Wednesday for a day of talks aimed at easing tensions over US drone strikes while putting pressure on the nation to do more to eliminate militant havens on its territory.
The Obama administration Wednesday declassified three documents to give broad details to the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program.
The Syrian army took 20 days of fighting to strip the western-backed rebels of a strategic central district regarded by the rebels as the capital of their revolution against the administration of President Bashar al-Assad.
The illegal immigrants lost their lives on Wednesday when a boat carrying them sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Ezine.
Lon Snowden, father of fugitive former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, tells his son Wednesday on Russian television to stay in Russia because he won't get a fair trial in the United States.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Islamabad later Wednesday for a three-day visit to discuss issues ranging from bilateral relations to regional situation
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