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 Obama administration is seeking to hold direct talks with Iran over Tehran's controversial nuclear program after Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani sent out some positive signals.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday met separately with senior diplomats from Russia, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan to promote bilateral cooperation.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers concluded a meeting Saturday, pledging to expand coordination and cooperation under the regional framework.
Seven peacekeepers of the UN- African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed and 17 others injured Saturday in an attack by an unidentified group on their patrol in Sudan's South Darfur state
A small group of Japanese cabinet ministers on Saturday offered sacrifices to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate Japanese war dead.
Indonesian police on Friday hunted for around 100 inmates, including militants, who escaped from an overcrowded jail after setting the prison ablaze in riots that left five dead.
One of the two teenage Chinese girls who died in the Asiana plane crash at San Francisco airport on Saturday was run over by a fire truck rushing to the scene.
France's Interior Ministry has lowered the death toll in a train derailment outside Paris to six and says nine people have been gravely injured.
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden plans to apply for political asylum in Russia, a Russian parliamentarian said Friday. 
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A 395-strong peacekeeping troop was formed in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiangrovince, on Friday and will be sent to Mali.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi expressed concern over the expulsion of Iranian nationals from the United Arab Emirates.
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