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.
The US Capitol was locked down briefly on Thursday after gunshots were fired following a car chase across central Washington and a number of people including a law enforcement officer were hurt..
The US Capitol was locked down briefly on Thursday after gunshots were fired following a car chase across central Washington and a number of people including a law enforcement officer were hurt.
The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in grave danger and feared for the life of his family inside when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.
The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday with no sign of a way out after a White House conversation between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders seemed only to harden the stances of Democrats and Republicans.
Shutdown still in deadlock after talks
A chartered airplane nosedived into the ground and burst into flames meters (yards) from tanks of aviation fuel, minutes after taking off from Lagos airport Thursday, Nigerian officials said.
Japan and the United States on Thursday agreed to revise their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of 2014 in a move to cope with changing security environment, according to the two countries' defense and foreign chiefs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama may discuss the Syria crisis on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Bali next week, a Kremlin aide said on Thursday.
There was no breakthrough after US President Obama met with Congress leaders in a bid to break a budget deadlock that has shut down the federal government. Impasse in Congress shuts down services
Iran's parliament, dominated by conservatives, strongly endorsed President Hassan Rouhani's diplomatic bid to break down mistrust at the United Nations in New York last week.
US President Barack Obama has canceled an official trip to Malaysia next week after the federal government went into a shutdown, Malaysian media quoted Prime Minister Najib Razak as saying on Wednesday.
The Russian embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli was attacked by unknown militants on Wednesday, source from the embassy told Xinhua.
Building on a fragile unity, the UN Security Council on Wednesday urged the Syrian government to allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on all parties to Syria's conflict to agree on humanitarian pauses in fighting and key routes for aid convoys.
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