The bodies of the seven Japanese killed in a militant attack in Bangladesh returned to home Tuesday as investigators in Dhaka searched for clues about the possible masterminds behind the gruesome attack that left 28 dead.
Vietnam has protested against a Chinese military drill in the contested South China Sea and has demanded that China stop the actions it says are a threat to security and maritime safety.
Some Syrian opposition groups have adopted methods of abuse similar to those employed by the government of President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday, in which it documented a "chilling" wave of torture, abductions and summary killings in insurgent-controlled areas.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has presided over the signing of new international investment agreements worth 7.5 billion dirhams (about $770 million) as the kingdom seeks to capitalize on its reputation as a safe market in a volatile region.
At least four security officers were killed and five injured in a suicide bombing Monday outside an Islamic holy site in Medina, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.
Investigators on Monday identified a body found in Rome's Tiber River as a 19-year-old student from Wisconsin who'd vanished hours after arriving in the Italian capital, and police said they were not ruling out a homicide.
The top UN official in Syria on Monday demanded immediate and unconditional humanitarian access to tens of thousands of people trapped in four towns, warning of starvation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday paid tribute to the commandos who stormed a hijacked aircraft at a Uganda airport to free Israeli hostages in what became known as the Raid on Entebbe, 40 years ago to the day.
As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago.
