London: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all US forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the US go...
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, te...
Beijing: China and the United States held “productive” trade talks in Beijing on Wednesday and will continue discussions in Washington next week, US T...
Washington: Four members of a Sikh family, including three women, have been fatally shot in their home in the US, authorities said.The victims who die...
Beijing: China said on Tuesday that the vexed issue of designating Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN will be "proper...
Japan's new emperor, Naruhito, has formally ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne, replacing his father, Akihito, who had abdicated a day earlier. In...
In Venezuela, demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of the Capital Caracas. The health ministry said 69 people had been injured ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the 120 newly-elected members who were sworn-into country's new Parliament on Tuesday, three weeks...
The European Union has extended a ban on selling arms to Myanmar and prolonged sanctions against high-ranking officials till 30th April 2020, over the...
GENEVA: Iran will continue to export oil despite U.S. pressure aimed at reducing the nation's crude oil shipments to zero, Iran President Hassan Rouha...
In the United States, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump of abusing the powers o...
Heavy rain and flooding in northern Mozambique killed at least 38 people. The flood comes just three days after Cyclone Kenneth killed at least e...
The US Defence Department has announced that it would deploy around 320 additional troops to the southern border with Mexico to support immigration of...
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate links between Russia and Donald Trump's campaig...
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday warned that Russia would seek to interfere in elections for decades ahead and vowed that Washi...
Over a week after the devastating Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, the country has completely banned all face veils including the burqa. The decis...
Former US vice president Joe Biden, the newest Democratic presidential candidate, will hit the campaign trail in earnest on Monday with a rally before...
Sydney: A fresh opinion poll showed Australia's bare-knuckle election campaign tightening significantly but the centre-left opposition Labor party mai...
Sri Lanka's incumbent police chief has refused to step down over the Easter Sunday suicide attacks despite President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday na...
San Francisco: In its new Insider Preview Build for Windows 10, Microsoft is working on a feature as part of its “Your Phone” software that would disp...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has issued an order for a ban on burqa, veil or covering of the face in a manner which prevents anyone from ...
In Indonesia, at least 17 people have been killed and nine are missing after days of heavy rain triggered floods and landslides on the island of Sumat...
Sri Lankan security forces continue with their operations against fundamentalist groups and suspects close to the suicide bombers involved in last Sun...
Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who is facing a high-profile treason case for suspending the Constitution, is unlikely to return...
Ukraine's President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide passports to Ukrainians, and pledge...
Srilankan President has decided to ban the National Thawheed Jamath (NJT) and Jamathei Milathu Ibrahim (JMI) two of the fundamentalist terror ne...
In the US, a woman was killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California. The gunman was arrested after the atta...
The European Union, EU has warned that US President Donald Trump's rejection of a UN treaty designed to regulate the global arms trade would hamper th...
The first week of May will host the opportunity for a shopping spree for residents with the 3 Day Super Sale (3DSS) shopping extravaganza. Back for it...
The bodies of Ahmed Al-Jaafari and Hani Osman, two Saudi nationals who died in Sunday's blasts in Sri Lanka, arrived in Jeddah from Colombo on Thursda...
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