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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on July 17 after Democrats issued subpoenas to compel him to appear, the chairmen of two House committees announced Tuesday.
Italian police officers on Monday began patrolling tourist sites in China, with their local counterparts, after a launching ceremony held in front of the Yongding Gate Tower in central Beijing.
Brendt Christensen, a former University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) doctoral student, was ruled guilty Monday of kidnapping and killing Zhang Yingying, a visiting Chinese scholar at UIUC in 2017.
Southeast Asian nations reached a consensus on Sunday to fight against trade protectionism and support the maintaining of a multilateral trade system as they wrapped up the 34th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump, the country's official Korean Central News Agency reported on Sunday.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers rested their cases Friday in the trial of a former University of Illinois student who could get the federal death penalty if convicted of killing a scholar from China.
An international counter-terrorism forum hosted by China's armed police force concluded in Beijing Friday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has issued a new pledge to speed up economic reforms, saying concrete steps are going to be taken to get the country's sluggish economy back on track.
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his successor as foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt emerged Thursday night as the two politicians in the final battle to become Britain's next Prime Minister.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it is groundless to accuse Russian soldiers of being responsible for the deadly crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014.
Voluntary euthanasia became legal in an Australian state on Wednesday more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday night formally kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida.
US companies have launched an initial salvo against the Trump administration's negotiating tactics, warning that many U.S. firms are opposed to raising tariffs on Chinese goods, saying it will increase their costs, risk the country's industry competiveness, as well as jobs, reports Reuters.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture on Monday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
Moldovan President Igor Dodon announced on Saturday the end of the week-long political and constitutional crisis in the country, soon after the top court annulled its recent decisions regarding the parliament and the government.
The World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not qualify as an international threat, despite the spread of the virus to neighboring Uganda carried by an infected family.
