Seoul, Jan 2 (IANS) South Koreans took to the streets Saturday to protest a recent agreement between Seoul and Japan to resolve the issue of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during…
Tripoli, Jan 1 (IANS/AKI) Muammar Gaddafi tried to engineer a ‘political’ marriage between his second son and planned heir and one of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s daughters, a former advisor to the late Libyan dictator…
Tehran, Jan 1 (IANS) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered to proceed the country’s missile programme “with high speed and seriously” and expand Iran’s missile capabilities, in response to the US considered sanctions, state…
Washington, Dec 31 (AFP) The United States is preparing sanctions against firms and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates over alleged links to Iran’s ballistic missile program, the Wall Street Journal…
London, Dec 30 (IANS) A top aide to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has died in a car crash, BBC reported on Wednesday. Kim Yang-gon, 73, was part of a high-level delegation from North…
Havana, Dec 29 (IANS) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said a further improvement in ties with Washington depends on the end of the more than 50-year-old US embargo. “The world understands that although the US-Cuba…
Vienna, Dec 29 (AP) A landmark nuclear deal with Tehran moved closer to implementation with US Secretary of State John Kerry announcing that tons of enriched uranium that could potentially be turned to use in…
London, Dec 28 (IANS) A top Afghan militant commander has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin held an unpublicized meeting with Mansour, the current Taliban chief, to discuss possible Russian support against the IS insurgents…
Colombo, Dec 27 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday strongly condemned the “uncivilised behaviour” of fans during a recently held live concert by Latin American pop idol Enrique Iglesias here, saying the incident…
Following is the text of the speech delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Afghan parliament on Friday: Your Excellency President Ghani Your Excellency, Chief Executive Dr. Abdulla Honorable Speaker of Wolesi Jirga and…
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Friday inaugurated the newly-built Afghan parliament building in Kabul. The new parliament building in Afghanistan will stand as a…
Paris, Dec 23 (IANS) As part of a constitutional reform, the French government would submit a law aimed at revoking dual citizenship of all nationals, including those who were born in France and were convicted…
Bogota, Dec 23 (IANS) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree legalising the medical use of marijuana. The decree was also signed on Tuesday by Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria, whose agency would help regulate…
Nazi party’s leader Adolf Hitler is seen in Landsberg prison in 1924. Hitler was arrested and tried for high treason 26 February 1924 following the Beer-Hall putsch that he committed together with General Ludendorff and…
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Alarmed over fundamentalists eclipsing democracy in his country, eminent Bangladeshi educationist Ajoy Roy, the father of slain secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy, on Tuesday called upon the youth to stand up against…
Paris, Dec 22 (IANS) In a moving ceremony, organised here for the first time, martyred Indian soldiers were remembered at the iconic Arc de Triomphe, which is home to the Flame in the Memory of…
United Nations, Dec 22 (IANS) The US President Barack Obama will open a high-level meeting on refugees in September 2016 at the United Nations, when world leaders will be here to attend the annual debate…
Kabul, Dec 21 (IANS) The Afghan National Directorate of Security said troops arrested a suicide bomber, thwarting his plans to attack the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said…
London, Dec 21 (IANS) Can Facebook be used as a tool for official communication by government functionaries? A deputy governor in Afghanistan just did that. Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar has made a plea to Afghan President…
Kabul, Dec 20 (IANS) Indias symbolic gift for democracy in Afghanistan – its new parliament building – is almost complete with plans in the works for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kabul in the…