As the G8 summit is to be held in northern Japan's Hokkaido early next week, the Japanese government has mobilized the Self-Defense Forces and police troops to tighten terrestrial, marine and aerial security both in the capital of Tokyo and around the location of the summit.
Driven overnight by "sundowner" winds that gusted to 50 mph, two major wildfires were still raging in Northern California on Saturday, charring more land and threatening nearby residents, authorities said.
Israeli soldiers opened intensive fire at Palestinian farmers approaching their farms near the fence between northern Gaza Strip and Israel, Hamas police sources said Sunday.
Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar declared late Saturday night that the four-day state of emergency in the country's capital of Ulan Bator was lifted as of midnight Saturday local time (1600 GMT).
More than 500,000 South Koreans will hold a candlelight vigil in central Seoul on Saturday night to protest against American beef imports, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
State Department employees may have been sneaking peeks at the passport records of celebrities much more often than previously disclosed, according to an internal investigative report that urges new action to secure the files.
Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic has made no change in its nuclear stance and will hold on to its right to peaceful use of nuclear.
A 70-year-old man suspected to be a cannibal was lynched by a group of angry residents in central Uganda this week, state media reported here on Friday.
