A storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may be leaking radioactive water into the ground, the plant's operator said April 7, RIA Novosti reported.

North Korea may be preparing to conduct a missile test or other provocative act sometime around April 10, a South Korean national security official said April 7, AP reported.

None of the foreign diplomatic missions in North Korea have moved out of the country, despite Pyongyang's warning that they should leave, Yonhap reported April 6.

Iran met with officials from Russia, China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Germany on April 6 for a second day of negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program, AFP reported.

Chinese authorities plan to cull birds from two live poultry markets in Shanghai and one in Hangzhou after the new bird flu virus, H7N9, was detected at all of the markets, Reuters reported April 6.

A North Korean missile test would not come as a surprise, White House spokesman Jay Carney said April 5, Reuters reported.

South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 5 issued a statement protesting Japan's renewed territorial claim over the Dokdo islets, known as Takeshima in Japan, Xinhua reported.

Two Thai officials, including Isra Thongthawat, the deputy governor of Yala province, were killed April 5 when suspected Muslim rebels detonated an improvised explosive device along a roadside, Reuters reported.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry on April 5 asked Russia to consider evacuating its Embassy staff, Interfax reported.