A Senior Officials Meeting (SOM), part of the 60th Asian-Africa Conference (AAC), opened at the Jakarta Convention Centre in Indonesia on April 19.

A construction crew on April 17 accidentally ruptured a natural gas transmission line in Fresno, California, sparking an explosion and fire that injured up to 15 people, four of them critically, officials said.

ASEAN is committed to joining efforts to ensure the elimination of sexual violence and enhance the role of women in peace processes and international and regional security, Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 14 expressed Israel's "dismay" to Russian President Vladimir Putin at Russia's decision to lift a self-imposed ban on supplying S-300 missiles to Iran.

Hillary Clinton cast herself as a champion for everyday Americans on April 12, kicking off her long-awaited second run for the White House

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has formally entered the 2016 race for the White House in a bid to become the first woman US president.

Warnings about dirty air come so often that only the most severe seem to catch anyone's attention.

The eurozone has said only six working days are left for Greece to come up with a revised list of reforms to seal a deal on its next rescue bailout.

Vietnam believes that with its first-ever participation in the approaching Summit of the Americas, Cuba will continually exert efforts to contribute to peace, stability, co-operation, and development on the continent.

The selection of Vietnam to host the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 132nd Assembly (IPU-132) reflected the growth of the country, according to the Euro Presse Image (EPI) portal.

The United States is speeding up arms supplies and bolstering intelligence sharing with a Saudi-led alliance bombing a militia aligned with Iran in neighboring Yemen, a senior US diplomat said on April 7.

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to Syria’s Yamuk Palestinian refugee camp as residents described fleeing in terror after the arrival of jihadists of the Islamic State group.

A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.

The international community has responded differently to a historical framework agreement signed on Thursday between Iran and P5+1 which includes Britain, the US, Russia, France, China, and Germany.

As many as 24,000 people in the Philippine coastal province of Aurora were evacuated on April 4 as typhoon Maysak possibly makes landfall on the country’s northeast coast.