#state media

North Koreans began casting their votes on Sunday to elect representatives for local assemblies, state media said, ...

At least 16 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in front of it in China`s eastern ...

Foreign minister Mohammed al-Orabi resigned as Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed two deputies in the first steps ...

Egypt`s caretaker prime minister appointed a veteran economist and a liberal party activist as his deputies on ...

Egypt`s military rulers have decided to delay the parliamentary elections scheduled for September by up to two months, ...

High levels of carbon monoxide have forced rescuers to suspend their efforts to save 19 coal miners trapped in a ...

Pakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert air base reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone ...

Omar al-Bashir, wanted for war crimes, arrived in Beijing early Tuesday, according to an AFP photographer, a day after ...

China and Vietnam have pledged to resolve a row over competing South China Sea territorial claims "peacefully", ...

The Venezuelan government rejected reports Sunday that President Hugo Chavez is in critical condition following ...

Venezuela`s President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in "critical" but stable condition, ...

Myanmar state media on Saturday accused ethnic minority rebels of starting deadly fighting near the Chinese border as ...

The United States and Vietnam on Friday jointly called for freedom of navigation and rejected the use of force in the ...

China staged three days of military exercises in the South China Sea and plans to boost its offshore maritime patrol ...

Torrential rain in two drought-stricken central China provinces triggered landslides and brought down houses, killing ...