British military trainers working with security forces in Pakistan have been withdrawn at the request of the Pakistan government.

The strain of E. coli blamed for 46 deaths in Germany appears to have resurfaced in France, the French Ministry of Health said.

Rebel forces in Libya have clashed with troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi about 80km (50 miles) south-west of the capital, Tripoli.

A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia is holding its first hearing in the trial of four former top Khmer Rouge leaders.

At least nine people have been killed, mostly drowned in flooding, after a typhoon battered the Republic of Korea (RoK), a disaster official said on June 27, while the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) braced for huge waves and torrential rain.

The approval rating for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan dropped 2 percentage points from the previous month to 26 percent in June, the Nikkei reported on June 27.

Many families of representatives and diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries working in France had a significant and warm exchange on the outskirts of Paris on June 26.

Thailand has pulled out of the ongoing 35th session of the World Heritage Convention (WHC) in Paris after the body decided to take Cambodia’s management plan for the Preah Vihear temple into consideration.

Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not seen in public since an attack on his palace early June, is well enough to return soon to Yemen and will make a media appearance within the next couple of days.

A bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens, officials say.