Washington: The World Bank has approved a grant of $285 million to finance the three west African countries hardest hit by the . The grant is...
Washington: The US Tuesday denounced the kidnapping of an army general in Colombia, a move that had led to a suspension of peace talks between the...
Minsk: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday said his country has no plan to implore the West to lift its unilateral sanctions imposed on Moscow. Lavrov...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday told a meeting of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party that the House of Representatives, or the lower house in...
Jerusalem: Four people were killed and eight injured in an apparent terror attack Tuesday morning in a synagogue in the Har Nof neighbourhood of western Jerusalem,...
Hong Kong: Students Tuesday cooperated with the Hong Kong police and bailiffs to peacefully evacuate a part of one of the three regions in the city...
Islamabad: At least two people, including a child, were killed and five children injured in a roadside blast in the Nasti Kot area of Pakistan’s Kurram...
United Nations: A newly-released World Health Organisation (WHO) report shows that drowning claims the lives of 372,000 people each year, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said...
Moscow: Russia will deploy dozens of new-generation early warning stations by 2018 to detect space objects such as debris and meteorites, Russia’s Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO)...
United Nations: Some of the world’s top football players, includinghave decided to join the UN effort to help raise global awareness in the fight against Ebola,...
