The first batch of Chinese aid for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan arrived in central Philippine city of Cebu, a relief goods distribution center, on Monday evening.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev started a two-day visit to China on Tuesday as a guest of Premier Li Keqiang.
Heavy rain at the Fukushima nuclear plant has caused a leak of radioactive water containing a cancer-causing isotope, possibly into the sea, its operator said,
The world's two most populous nations will try to remove a long-term irritant in their relations by signing a border agreement.
Up to 36 militants have been killed in separate joint cleanup operations in Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, said the country's Interior Ministry Monday.
At least 16 people were killed Sunday evening when a bus in which they were traveling rolled down a gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, said police Monday.
Rebels raided three cattle camps in a remote part of South Sudan's restive Jonglei state on Sunday, killing at least 41 people and wounding dozens of others.
Three people have been killed in an apartment building fire in the central city of Karaganda, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan said.
At least five people were killed and 15 others injured when a blast hit a passenger train in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan on Monday morning, local media Geo reported.
The United States has quietly restarted security assistance to Pakistan after freezing much of that aid during a period of strained relations beginning with the 2011 Navy SEAL raid.
The Canadian National Railway train carrying petroleum crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said on Oct 19.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh waves as he walks out of the plane upon his arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, October 20, 2013.
Four Chinese students were drowned on Friday when they were swimming in the sea of Marsa Matrouh, an Egypt's northwestern coastal city, Chinese Embassy confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
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