Madonna criticises Malawi president amid vote chaos
Pop diva Madonna has weighed in on Malawi's chaotic election, criticising embattled President Joyce Banda, who has tried to nullify the vote amid allegations of irregularities.
27 May 2014
Egypt votes in poll seen giving Sisi landslide victory
The ex-army chief who ousted Egypt's first democratically elected leader and crushed his Islamist movement was set for a landslide presidential election win on Tuesday, the final day of voting.
27 May 2014
Merkel conservatives win EU vote, neo-Nazis gain seat
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives came out ahead in European Parliament elections, official results showed Monday, but a neo-Nazi party also won a seat in Brussels, echoing far-right gains elsewhere.
26 May 2014
Obama makes surprise Afghanistan visit
US President Barack Obama promised a decision on post-2014 troop numbers in Afghanistan "fairly shortly", after paying a surprise visit to soldiers fighting the last battles of America's longest war.
26 May 2014
Chocolate king claims victory in Ukraine presidential vote
Chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko claimed a resounding victory on Sunday in Ukraine's presidential election and immediately vowed to end a bloody pro-Russian uprising that thwarted voting across swathes of the separatist east.
CICA adopts Shanghai declaration
Participants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration.
Former Supreme court judge named new S. Korean premierSouth Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday named a former Supreme Court judge as her new prime minister, as the fallout from last month's ferry disaster casts a long shadow over upcoming local elections.
Bolivian ex-president can face rights trial in USA judge in the state of Florida has given a green light for a human rights abuses trial to move forward in the United States against Bolivian ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
22 May 2014
Asia should create its own OSCE: NazarbayevKazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
21 May 2014
Prince Charles compares Putin to HitlerBritain's Prince Charles stoked controversy during a visit to Canada by comparing the recent actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin's to those of Adolf Hitler, the Daily Mail reported.
China's Xi and Russia's Putin meet facing West's criticismChinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday held talks with visiting Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as the two powers seek to build ties in the face of Western criticism and territorial disputes.