SHANGHAI (Reuters) - State carrier Air China will resume regular flights between Beijing and Pyongyang on Wednesday, a company official said, as diplomatic relations improve between China and North Korea. Source: Reuters World News
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday criticized China for pressuring Qantas Airways Ltd to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, in comments likely to ramp up tensions between the two countries. Source: Reuters World News
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The president of the European Commission said on Tuesday that Italy is a pillar of the European Union and that the country deserves respect. Source: Reuters World News
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should properly handle the Taiwan issue, so as to avoid harming two-way ties and stability in the Taiwan Strait, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Source: Reuters World News
BANGKOK (Reuters) - On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 7-Eleven store with two plastic bags. Source: Reuters World News
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a peace tent gathering of Muslim clerics in Kabul and backed their fatwa against suicide attacks, saying they violated the tenets of Islam. Source: Reuters World News
Madagascar's president named a senior UN official on Monday to head a government of national unity in a bid to end a crisis sparked by electoral reforms. The Indian Ocean nation has been rocked by protests initially called against new laws the opposition said were aimed at barring their candidates from taking part in elections [...]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican tribunal ordered on Monday the creation of an independent commission to investigate the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico nearly four years ago, citing shortcomings in the federal prosecutor's investigation. Source: Reuters World News
At the edge of the ancient pyramids of Giza, some 5,000 construction workers labor around the clock to finish the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum. Expected to open by the end of this year, the 5.2-million-square-foot structure will become the world's largest museum devoted to a single civilization. Source: Latest CNN News