KABUL, April 5 (Xinhua - RHC) -- The polling for Afghanistan's presidential election concluded on Saturday and counting of ballots has begun, the country's election officials have declared.... More


Cairo, Apr 5 (RHC), -- Egypt's deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, was due back in court on Saturday over his alleged involvement in the killing of protesters in clashes during his rule, AFP reports on Saturday.... More


KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 (Xinhua – RHC), -- Malaysian Minister of Defense and acting Minister of Transport, Hishammuddin Hussein, said on Saturday in a press conference that the Malaysian government had established three ministerial committees to streamline and strengthen their work on the missing plane.... More


Beijing, April 5 (Xinhua - RHC) -- Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01, searching for the missing Malaysian passenger jet MH370, detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second in southern Indian Ocean waters on Saturday.... More


Moscow, April 4 (RHC)-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday strongly criticized what he described as 'the role of arbiter of fate that the West has assumed in regards to Ukraine.' ... More


Caracas, Apr 4, (RHC), -- A member of the right-wing opposition Popular Will party has been arrested for their involvement in a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Housing and Habitat last Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.... More


Santiago, Apr 4, (RHC), – The Foreign Ministers of Chile and Argentina, Heraldo Muñoz and Hector Timmerman respectively, will meet today in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a bid to strengthen bilateral relations.... More


Santiago, Apr 4, (RHC), – Coastal residents of Chile’s far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued on Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths. But no new major damage or casualties were reported, and a heavy police and military presence kept order, Mercopress news agency reports.... More


PERTH, Australia, April 4 (Xinhua - RHC), -- A underwater search for missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 started Friday as searchers are racing against time to locate its data recorders known as the 'black box' before the batteries run out of power. The black box contains a pinger with a battery life of about 30 days after a crash.... More


TOKYO, April 4 (Xinhua), -- Japan's lower house of parliament on Friday passed two nuclear treaties with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UEA) to allow Japan to begin exporting its nuclear power technology and related equipment to both countries.... More


HANOI, April 4 (Xinhua -RHC) -- Vietnam and Malaysia agreed on Friday to consider upgrading bilateral ties to strategic partnership.... More


Caracas, April 3 (RHC) -- The Venezuelan government on Wednesday strongly rejected recent criticism from European Union (EU) spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic as unfounded foreign interference in its domestic affairs.... More


Kiev, Apr 3 (PL- RHC), -- Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Vladimir Ogryzko, added an element of tension to the environment of contradictions between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by insisting that the West should opt for Ukraine with nuclear weapons or within the military alliance. ... More


Quito, April 3 (RHC-PL) -- Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that the committee of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will travel back to Venezuela next week to keep trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in the South American country.... More


Brasilia, April 3 (RHC-NNN), -- Brazil's Ministry of Defense Wednesday began installing a secure digital communication network for federal government offices, a government source said.... More


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