President Rafael Correa revealed that Ecuador will mark one-year anniversary of 7.8-magnitude earthquake, that killed 673 people, by holding open-air mass.
More than 200,000 visitors attended traditional trams parade in Russia's capital, celebrating the 118th anniversary of one of the Moscow transport system.
US and South Korean military officials said that North Korea unsuccessfully launched its missile, a day after a military parade in Pyongyang warned US among rising tension.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through dozens of US cities to request Trump release tax returns, showing the public care about that issue.
Bijan Zanganeh, the Iran's Oil Minister, said that the larger half oil producer, including Iran, support an expansion of output cuts by non-OPEC and OPEC countries.
More than 1000 people registered at the Iranian Interior Ministry to run for next month's presidential elections.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a final push for votes in a referendum on expanding his powers, as the authorities said they had foiled a possible Islamist militant plot against the poll.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend rallies on Saturday, April 15, the day that marks the traditional deadline for filing income tax returns.
The death toll in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Iran's northwest province of eastern Azarbaijan rose to 30 as rescue teams deployed.
An Iraqi military officer reported that the Islamic State militants had launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated region in western Mosul.
The Trump administration has declined to label China a currency manipulator, but is keeping the country on its list of those to monitor, according to a new report from the US Treasury Department.
The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used by the US military rose to 94, an Afghan official reported on Saturday.
A rubbish dump landslide in the Sri Lankan capital city has killed around 16, injured more than a dozen and buried around 100 houses.
As many as 39 people are killed after a huge explosion targeted a bus convoy in Aleppo moving residents of two besieged Shia villages.
An earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude has struck Chile, close to the border with Argentina, the United States Geological Survey has reported.
The Islamic State's militant linked to the 2015 attack on a French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo could be still alive, the Iraqi military said.
The Tunisian, who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, received orders directly from the Islamic State. The attacker was shot dead four days after the incident by Italian police in Milan.
With the US Navy deployed near the Korean Peninsula, experts warn that Pyongyang prepares another nuclear test in response to the US aggression.
Russia will urge the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapon and the UN to urgently send inspectors for a probe into the incident of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The explosives used in the attack on the soccer team Dortmund Borussia's bus may have come from supplies of German armed forces. It still remains unclear who carried out the attack.
China still faces a challenging trade outlook, which is no likely to improve anytime soon, regardless of positive trade figures in the first quarter, a senior commerce official warned.
China's securities watchdog said that stock exchanges had to conduct supervision over IPOs, mergers, reorganisation and delisting of listed companies more proactively.
The EU lawmakers could summon the French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to discuss lifting of her immunity over the alleged misuse of the EU funds, ahead of the second round of the election.
China's fiscal revenue growth is set to slow in the second quarter as factors that boosted robust expansion in the beginning of the year are likely to weaken. China's fiscal revenue rose 14.1% on an annual basis in the first quarter.