The US on Friday offered blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng a fellowship at an American university, within hours of China saying he would go abroad to study.
Leaving behind diplomatic drama over a Chinese dissident, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton faced a fresh test on Saturday as she moves on to Bangladesh where the disappearance of an opposition leader has fueled growing tensions.
The West must take concrete confidence-building steps in its nuclear negotiations with Iran, a senior Islamic republic official preparing the next round of talks said Friday, after returning from discussions with China and Russia.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng told AFP Friday he was in "great danger", and urged the Chinese government to respect commitments it made about his safety when he left the US embassy.
A moderate earthquake jolted a small town in western Iran near the Iraqi border on Thursday, injuring eight people and damaging buildings, Iranian media reported.
Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty.
Japan will shut down its last operating nuclear power reactor on Saturday, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.
Lying in a heavily guarded hospital room in Bejing, blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been able to do what some had expected — seemingly overshadow the ongoing Sino-US dialogue which had President Hu Jintao and secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaking on Thursday.
China today said it is verifying Defence minister AK Antony's allegations that the Chinese helicopters violated Indian airspace twice last month and reiterated its stand to resolve the border dispute with India through negotiations.
Twelve-year-old Indian-origin boy Nayati Moodliar, who was abducted last week while walking down to his neighbourhood school in Kuala Lumpur, was today rescued by a Malaysian police task force from an undisclosed location.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday told China that it cannot deny the "aspirations" of its citizens as she opened talks in Beijing marred by a row over a Chinese dissident.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng appealed on Thursday for safety abroad, saying he feared for his life after his dramatic escape to Beijing, as US and Chinese leaders sparred over human rights.
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In a late night development, an US-based rights organisation claimed that blind activist Chen Guangcheng did not leave the American embassy on his own accord and that he was ready to leave China.
Egyptian security services foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Cairo, the legal advisor of the kingdom's embassy said in local dailies today.