Twenty Uygur asylum seekers who fled to Cambodia after July's deadly ethnic riots in China's city of Urumqi, were deported back to China

Three Iranian prison officials have been charged with killing imprisoned protesters arrested in the aftermath of the June presidential election

A powerful storm broke in two a Moldova-flagged cargo vessel off the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in the early hours of Sunday

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri have agreed to repair relations between the two countries during their first meeting in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The Colombian government has announced its plans to build a new military base near its border with Venezuela as part of a program aimed at stepping up military presence in the area.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has sacked the governor of Georgia's western Imereti Region after two people were killed in the Saturday's explosion in Georgia's second largest city, Kutaisi

The international conference called "Middle East 2020: Is the Comprehensive Settlement Possible?" will open in Jordan on Sunday.

Heavy snowfalls engulfed the U.S. East Coast on Saturday paralyzing traffic and cutting power supplies in the region.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Cairo on December 20-21 to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict resolution and bilateral issues with his Egyptian counterpart

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

Police in China's Tianjin municipality detained a burglar who had broken into a construction site to steal cables and ended up getting drunk there, China Daily reported on Saturday.

Police in China's Tianjin municipality detained a burglar who had broken into a construction site to steal cables and ended up getting drunk there, China Daily reported on Saturday.

Iran is willing to consider a recent Western proposal that it could obtain nuclear fuel from outside sources rather than produce it itself, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday, according to the official IRNA news agency.

The Indian Defense Ministry on Saturday urged the private sector to take advantage of its Offset Policy that will create a 10-billion opportunity in the next five years to manufacturers and service providers, according to the Press Trust of India.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday the German mediator in the Gilad Shalit talks has given Israel two to three weeks to approve a prisoner swap deal to free the kidnapped soldier, according to Ynet.

Iran has rejected reports that its forces have taken over an oil well in Iraq, Press TV said on Saturday.

The death toll in the December 5 deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 150 as another woman died Saturday in a hospital, Ekho Moskvky radio said.

The death toll in the December 5 deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 150 as another woman died Saturday in a hospital, Ekho Moskvky radio said.

Russia condemned on Saturday the demolition of a memorial to WWII heroes in Georgia as an act of barbarism and state vandalism.

The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.