A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF)destroyer collided late Tuesday with a South Korean container ship in the Kammon Straits in Fukuoka Prefecture, local media reported.
Three crew members on MSDF destroyer Kurama were sligh…
Some 160 Cambodian journalists have adopted a common code of conduct to help journalists to better perform their journalistic job, an organizer of the forum said Tuesday.
Pa Nguon Teang, director of the Cambodian Center for Independe…
An international meeting of the Global Tiger Forum being held in Kathmandu Tuesday called for setting up a new secretariat to contain the rampant poaching and trafficking of the highly endangered big cats across the South Asian countries.
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Greece called on Europe to share burden of illegal migration after eight illegal immigrants from Afghanistan including three children and five women is the final tragic toll of the accident that occurred early on Tuesday morning near the G…
Brazilian Justice Minister Tarso Genro announced Tuesday that Rio would receive a total of 131.8 million reais (75.8 million U.S.dollars) to make the city safer for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The money would be used to purchase police e…
The Peruvian government on Tuesday denied that a military helicopter, which crashed the same day in the Andean region, was connected to drug rafficking or a terrorist attack.
Peru's Defense Minister Rafael Rey said the cause of the a…
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said Wednesday they are ready to dispatch sufficient forces anytime to rescue the abducted 79-year- old Irish priest in Mindanao, southern Philippines.
MILF Spokesman Eid Kabalu said kidnapper…
Samoa has launched new campaigns in New Zealand and Australia to attract tourists back after last month's tsunami.
The Samoa Tourism Authority started a New Zealand newspaper and television campaign over the weekend and will launch a…
A Yemeni government spokesman confirmed Tuesday the arrest of five Iranian crew on board an Iranian flagged vessel laden with weapons and said they were under interrogation.
"The Iranian crew of five is being under interrogation and …
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai described attack on UN guest house in the capital city Kabul Wednesday that left six international staff members of the world body dead as a coward act and condemned it, a statement released by his office…
Militants in a surprise move penetrated a UN guesthouse in the fortified Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday morning, killing six foreign national staff of UN,a police officer said.
"The militants entered the guesthouse at 5 a.m. local ti…
Heavy gun battle between police forces and suspected suicide bombers erupted in Afghan capital Kabul early Wednesday morning, sources said.
Police forces found at least two suspected suicide bombers while searching a house in downtow…
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Sunday visited Wana, a major town in the country's tribal area of South Waziristan to meet the field commanders and troops deployed in the area.
The official APP news agency…
Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday it had bought two transport helicopters from Russia, an investment of 22 million U.S. dollars, Ecuadorian Defense Minister Javier Ponce said.
The purchase was negotiated and finished a year ago, and the p…
Nepal Army (NA) has started its largest ever
demining operation with a target of defusing within one year at least 19 major minefields that it had been planted during the decade-long conflict, The Kathmandu Post reported on Monday.
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Indonesian authorities have asked an Australian Customs ship carrying 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to move to a new port, Australian prime minister said Tuesday.
Kevin Rudd told parliament Indonesian authorities had now asked for the…
The verification regime of a new nuclear arms reduction agreement should be less rigid compared to the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1), Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Tuesday.
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Two rockets fired from unknown location slammed next to Kabul's only five-star Kabul Serena Hotel Wednesday morning.
Officials are tightlipped if there were any casualties.
Police also cordoned off the area and did not allow jo…
At least 18 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a blast in northwest Pakistan' s city of Peshawar Wednesday, local TV channel reported.
According to the private TV GEO News, sources said a deafening blast occurred …
A total of 14,955 Mauritanian refugees in Senegal have returned since the repatriation operation began, an official source disclosed this to Xinhua on Tuesday.
The latest contingent, the 65th of the returnees, arrived on Tuesday at B…
The Austrian Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday to extend its current international peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Bosnia to the end of 2010.
After the decision, Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos noted that curren…
Singapore is hosting a multilateral exercise to guard against the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the country's Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Teo Chee Hean offi…
Macedonia will beef up its military presence in Afghanistan by sending more troops as early as the start of next year, local media reported on Tuesday.
Skopje will deploy an additional 80 troops to the NATO-led International Security…
Eight U.S. service members and one Afghan civilian were killed Tuesday in multiple IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks in southern Afghanistan, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Pakistani security forces killed 42 more militants during the last 24 hours as the operation in the country's tribal area steadily progressed towards the Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan, the any said Tuesday in a daily press releas…
Another helicopter of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in west Afghanistan Monday leaving 10 dead and injuring 26 others, a press release of the military alliance said.
"Today an International Secur…
Although NATO defense ministers have endorsed U.S.-NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF) commander General Stanley McChrystal's calls for further reinforcement in Afghanistan, it has been observed that additional commitm…
Mrs Fanny Judith Kumah, a Director at the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE),has stressed the need for students to be trained to acquire the skills in public policy formulation to solve problems.
"We are not growing any …
The Youth for Action Ghana (YAG), youth activist group dedicated to the promotion of human rights, protection of the environment and inculcation of patriotism, has condemned Newmont Ahafo Mine for the recent cyanide spillage.
Newmo…
The South Korean government on Wednesday began to send 850-million-won (around 714,000 U.S. ollars) worth of cross-border communication equipment to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in a bid to modernize an inter-Korean mil…
Sight For Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) into optical screening, on Wednesday offered free screening for 1,500 people at Darkuman, a suburb of Accra.
Mr Collins Antwi, Coordinator of the NGO, said the exercise held th…
Winners of the National Best Teacher awards have been asked to serve as role models for other teachers, to raise the standards of teaching in the country.
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, who made th…
The Bolgatanga Circuit Court, presided over by Justice William Boampong on Tuesday sentenced two people to seven years imprisonment each with hard labour for stealing from a contractor, Mr. Hakeem Dawuda.
The two accused persons are …
The Management of General Electric Commercial Finance (GECF), a US organization, on Thursday presented health care equipment worth 4,000 dollars to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The equipment included 3,700 pairs of spectacles, sur…
A 30-million dollar Northern Region Small Towns Water and Sanitation (NORST) Project, has been launched to improve the provision of water and sanitation facilities in 30 small towns in 13 districts of the eastern corridor of the
Northern…
A Senior Pastor of the Christ Missions International Church at Asante-Mampong has urged other pastors to use the pulpit to discourage occult practices among students.
The Reverend Francis Osei said young people must be assisted to h…
Health researchers have warned that wearing a cell phone on one's belt could lead to decreased bone density in the area of the pelvis that is commonly used for bone grafts.
This is contained in a new research report on the health eff…
Dr Esther Bediako, Government Statistician on Wednesday advocated the complete overhaul of the country's agricultural statistic system.
She said Ghana needed more and better statistics on agriculture, a major economic sector.
D…
Birim North Umbrella Youth Association, a group made up of 13 recognized youth groups in communities in the Birim North District, has called for the granting of mining licence to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited to mine gold deposits in the area…
South Korea's death toll from the A/H1N1 flu has increased to 29, the government said on Wednesday.
According to Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, the new flu was confirmed to have been the direct cause of death of a 4…
A groundbreaking discovery has been made by U.S. researchers which may lead to future drug therapies to extend the life of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), …
The United States remains waiting Iran's official response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s proposal to use Iran's own low-enriched uranium and send it out to be enriched to fuel their research reactor, State Department s…
Matters related to the financing of climate change control will be the top priority for Poland at the EU summit in Brussels starting Thursday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said here Tuesday.
"My cabinet has formulated a firm pos…
Singapore and the World Health Organization (WHO) tied up to organize a workshop here to integrate water safety knowledge for universities, Singapore's national water agency PUB said on Wednesday.
To better equip engineering graduate…
The majority of European companies had failed to buy environmentally sustainable palm oil, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) revealed in a press release Wednesday in Gland, Switzerland.
Only 10 of 59 assessed European companies ha…
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inaugurated a conference of tiger specialists on Tuesday in the capital Kathmandu.
The conference is being organized with the assistance of World Bank.
It has been initiated to form a st…
The inclusion of UN Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme in a new agreement to extend or replace the Kyoto Protocol could generate between 8 billion and 16 billion U.S. dollars annually in carbon credits f…
Chinese scientists from the country's 26th Antarctic expedition are expected to complete the world's first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year.
It will be the most accurate map of the continent, presenting variou…
Singapore will be hosting three regional meetings on the environment from Oct. 29 to 30, Singapore's Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources said on Monday.
The meetings are the 11th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environme…
The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday.
Since current rocket technologies ar…