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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent a letter of congratulation on Thursday to the Egyptian interim President Adli ...

-     After completing an on-site investigation in Lushan County, Ya'an City, Shao Qiwei, ...

One out of 10 people around the world is likely to live in a place where two or more sector such as crop yields, ...

A Russian rocket carrying three Glonass-M communications satellites suffered an apparent engine malfunction and ...

Public spending on health and long-term care in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ...

The proliferation of the emerging new psychoactive substances (NPS), some of which could be legal in some markets, is ...

Two and a half hours before the scheduled take-off of a flight on which U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden ...

John Woo is scheduled to begin filming his latest project "The Crossing," a romantic epic described as China`s ...

At least 5,000 people have been killed by flash flood in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last week, said a ...

The recent haze that shrouds part of Malaysia deteriorates throughout the weekend, forcing the government to declare ...

Amid the Saudi government`s policy to cut hajj pilgrims` numbers due to expansion work at Mecca`s Grand Mosque, some ...

Brazil plans to produce vaccines against the influenza H1N1 virus, Health Minister Alexandre Padilha said Tuesday. ...

Saudi Arabia has called upon foreign pilgrims to postpone their Hajj plans this year due to ongoing expansion work at ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday extended his "warm congratulations" to Hassan Rouhani, the confirmed ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday condemned deadly attacks in Pakistan, saying that "no cause can justify ...