Khartoum (Sudan), November 14 (AP): The Qatar-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera said Sunday its bureau chief in Sudan was detained by security forces, a day after mass protests across the country against
Islamabad, November 14 (PTI): Afghanistan does not want conflict with any country, including India, the war-torn country's Taliban-led interim government's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has
Cairo, November 14 (AP): The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election ag
Glasgow, November 14 (AP): Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language abo
Bangkok, November 14 (AP): The military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and violence disrupt banking, trade and livelihoods and millions slide deeper into
Tokyo, November 14 (AP): A Japanese princess who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner college sweetheart left for New York on Sunday, as the couple pursued happiness as newlyweds and left behind a nat
Manila, November 13 (IANS): Sara Duterte-Carpio, the daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, on Saturday filed her candidacy for Vice President in the May 2022 elections.
Carpio, 43, sent a represe
New Delhi, November 13 (IANS): UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has said that there is deep concern over reports that child marriages in Afghanistan are on the rise.
"We have received credible r
London, November 13 (IANS): Priti Patel, the Indian-origin British Home Secretary, has triggered a court case against Prime Minister Boris Johnsons decision last year not to dismiss her for alleged unacceptable
Hong Kong, November 13 (AP): Hong Kong authorities declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation, the magazine said.
Sue-Lin Wong, who is Australian, was
Washington, November 13 (AP): Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, has been indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House committee
Kabul, November 12 (AP): A Taliban provincial spokesman says a bomb exploded in a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding at least 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, where Islamic State group militants have been
Berlin, November 12 (IANS): As Germany's baby boomer generation retires, the country will be threatened with losses amounting to billions of euros, according to a study published by the German Economic Inst
Bangkok, November 12 (AP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement for
Glasgow, November 12 (AP): Negotiators at this year's UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call to end all use of coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies completely, but gave poor
Rome, November 11 (AP): Pope Francis renewed his call for Europe to welcome and show solidarity with migrants, saying the diversity they're bringing to the continent is renewing European cities as a beautif
Islamabad, November 11 (PTI): Senior officials from the US, China, Russia and Pakistan on Thursday called on the Taliban to sever its ties with all international terrorist groups and to deny space to any milita
Berlin, November 11 (AP): The number of people around the world forced to abandon their homes likely increased to more than 84 million in the first half of this year, an increase fuelled in particular by c
JOHANNESBURG, November 11 (AP): F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rul
Kabul, November 11 (IANS): The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has brought with it a different set of rules and way of life for its locals, which is being questioned and criticized globally. The hardline histor