Move aimed at lowering the risk of insider attacks and reducing local tensions over an anti-Islam film.

The Afghan president's office says a judicial panel has ruled that administrative detention runs counter to the country's laws, potentially thwarting a U.S. plan to hand over detainees.

The Information Ministry did not name the prisoners, so it was unclear how many political detainees were among them.

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be honored in Washington this week and presented Congress's highest award.

Wang Lijun's trial started unexpectedly a day earlier than the court in the central city of Chengdu had announced.

State media said Xi toured a university in Beijing, but offered no explanation of why he had dropped from sight.

A grand, aging, red-brick house in Washington concealed by a pair of towering magnolia trees has become an unlikely setting for South Korea's festering grievances against Japan.

Reversing Japan's decades-long advocacy of nuclear power is popular with the public, though it faces opposition from powerful business interests.