Sixteen police personnel were killed in a US-led coalition forces airstrike in Helmand province of Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.According...
US Defence Secretary James Mattis said he believes Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi is still alive, shooting down claims he was killed in an...
The Pentagon has encouraged India and China to engage in a direct dialogue free of any "coercive aspects"."We encourage India and China to engage in d...
The United States has blocked 350 million dollars in coalition support funds to Pakistan as Islamabad failed to act against the dreaded Haqqani networ...
White House press secretary Sean Spicer, President Donald Trump’s embattled spokesman during the first six months of his presidency, is resigning his ...
Paris, Jul 20: A United Nations report has stated that AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll. The death due to the deadly ep...
The Chinese state media has lashed out at India's External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj and called her a liar. China's mouthpiece Global Times said...
The US President Donald Trump has nominated John R Bass, currently serving as the US ambassador to Turkey, to be his envoy to Afghanistan. Bass, a car...
Two people, likely foreign tourists, were killed and more than 100 people injured on the Greek island of Kos when an earthquake shook popular Greek an...
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN report today proclaiming "the s...
The Riyadh Police have arrested a member of the Saudi royal family after a video of the prince verbally and physically abusing Saudi Arab citizens wen...
The children of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could face up to seven years in jail if it was proved that they had submitted fake documents to t...
A key congressional panel has voted to impose tougher conditions on Pakistan to receive US assistance and authorised the secretary of state to suspend...
As forest fires raged in western Canada, the provincial government extended a state of emergency and announced aid for tens of thousands of people eva...
An earthquake measuring 5(point)8 on Richter scale hit northeast of Tokyo on Japan's main island of Honshu today.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (P...
The White House says President Donald Trump is nominating Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper to be the next secretary of the Army. Esper has been the top lo...
The counting of votes for the presidential election was underway here today with the numbers stacked in favour of the ruling NDA's nominee Ram Nath Ko...
Washington: Expressing concern over the growing gap between the overarching goals of the Indo-US defence ties, a powerful Senate Committee has asked t...
United States slapped new economic sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile programme. US said Tehran's malign activities in the Middle East ...
Four Arab nations that cut ties with Qatar are urging the tiny Gulf nation to commit to six principles on combatting extremism and terrorism. The...
The Trump administration has announced a one-time increase of 15,000 additional H-2B visas for low-wage foreign workers after determining that the nee...
A Pakistani court on Tuesday lifted a ban imposed restrictions on airing Indian teleplays by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority by calling...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the implementation of the Paris climate accord, saying that climate change poses a far-reaching t...
United Nations, Jul 18: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Washington to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, has said Tehra...
An ambulance carrying South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital, his doctor r...
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck in the northern Pacific Ocean between the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands and Russia's Kamchatka Penins...
China's military has conducted live-fire exercises in Tibet amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sik...
China is putting pressure on the government of Botswana to cancel a planned visit next month by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, t...
Islamabad: The Panamagate (JIT) has recommended reopening five cases decided by the Lahore High Court (LHC), eight investigations and two inquiries ag...
Witnesses said at least eight people have died and more than 50 were injured after a stadium wall collapse and stampede at a soccer match in the Seneg...
Which political party will win the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on Feb 5?