Arakan Muslims in Myanmar are banned from having more than two children.
15:01, 25 May 2013 Saturday
The bomb was detonated after police stopped the car to check the driver's documents, some 100 metres from the regional police ministry in the centre of Makhachkala, the regional capital.
The incident highlights how Japan is still struggling with nuclear safety issues after the 2011 Fukushima disaster
Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded
An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 other people were wounded during the attack
A witness described seeing two wounded policemen, though there was no official word on casualties.
A North Korean envoy told China's president that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability
SOCAR plans to begin constructing a new gas processing plant south of Baku in mid-2014, SOCAR's senior representative told the media today.
he hydrocarbon resources of Turkmenistan could potentially be connected to the European market via the Caspian Sea through construction of a small branch line (about 300 miles) of the pipeline through the seabed to the coast of Azerbaijan.
Despite the messages Myamnar President Thein Sein gave during his US visit, the suffering of Arakan (Rohingya) Muslims continues.
The incident occurred about 10 am. The plane was carrying out insect disinfection.
Regional emergency authorities issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kurile islands, but lifted the warning several minutes later
Police killed two suspected fighters after one of them threw a grenade at a group of officers and two others died in a separate shootout in Dagestan
US Secretary of State John Kerry has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan with Republic Day May 28, said on official website of US Department of State.
China has repeatedly urged North Korea to return to the so-called six party talks process, aimed at denuclearisation.
Increased contact with China's military gives the United States a chance to explain its new strategic focus on Asia which Beijing fears is a containment strategy
Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank
Opposition member of parliament Tian Chua and pro-opposition activists Haris Ibrahim and Tamrin Ghafar, had been arrested for offences under the Sedition Act.
Sixteen people were wounded and the death toll could rise, said police in the city, which is capital of Baluchistan province.
The film presumably will be called 'The Big Game' or 'The Oil Wars' and will underline that the Baku oil has always been in the focus of international attention
The draft agreement on the denouncement was introduced for the adoption of the state parliament.