NEW DELHI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- In a landmark ruling, India's Supreme Court has rejected a plea by a death row prisoner to commute his sentence to life in jail. Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar -- on death row since 2001 for triggering a bomb blast in Sept...
PYONGYANG, April 14 (Xinhua) -- South Korean proposals for dialogue are not sincere, a spokesperson for the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said Sunday. If Seoul really intends to conduct such a dialogue, it should drop its c...
TOKYO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned here Sunday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has to immediately stop its provocative actions. Making the remarks at a press conference after talks with his Jap...
ROME, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Italian Foreign Ministry said four Italian journalists who were kidnapped and held in Syria earlier this month have been released. The Italian reporters were taken hostage on April 5 in northern Syria, close to Turkish bord...
MOSCOW, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia will vote against a new draft U.N. resolution on Syria, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The document, prepared by a number of countries and to be voted soon at the U.N. General Assembly, is obviously biased and...
LISBON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Some 1,000 Portuguese took to the streets in capital Lisbon on Saturday in protest against the government's tough austerity measures that were widely blamed for deepening economic recession in the heavily debted country....
MOSCOW, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon is arriving in Moscow for a visit at an unsuitable time, a Russian parliament member said Sunday. Donilon will be the first to feel the brunt of the U.S. black lists tomorrow,...
BRUSSELS, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed early Sunday when their bus drove off a highway in northern Belgium, local media reported. Among the five were three teenagers as well as the driver and a chaperone, according to local media. Fiv...
PODGORICA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Miodrag Lekic, the defeated candidate in Montenegro's presidential election, has filed an official complaint with the country's electoral commission, citing numerous irregularities, reported Radio Television Montenegro...
SARAJEVO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- EUFOR is to hold military exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) between April 15 and April 28, local media reported on Sunday. The exercise, codenamed quick response 2013, is aimed to demonstrate the ability of EUFOR...
SEOUL, April 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Thursday called on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to come to the dialogue table to resolve the political deadlock with its northern neighbor. The suspension in operation of the Kaesong Indu...
KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members expressed grave concern over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 's nuclear threat at pre-summit meetings in Brunei Daruss...
BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhuanet) - South Korea will not resort to forces first amid the escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula, the countrys ambassador to China said . The Republic of Korea is not going to take any provocative military behavior now,...
NICOSIA, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus partly eased restrictions on bank operations on Thursday by allowing free transactions of up to 300,000 euros (390,000 U.S. dollars) domestically and raising the ceiling for company payment abroad. A new decree is...
BERLIN, April 11 (Xinhua) -- DAPD, the second largest news agency in Germany, ended its operation Thursday afternoon. Nearly 200 employees lost their jobs. Petra Hilgers, the insolvency administrator for the ailing agency, announced in a staff meetin...
