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UNDP to blackout photos on website for International Women’s Day

UNDP to blackout photos on website for International Women’s Day

A United Nations agency in Afghanistan plans to stop publishing photographs on its website to highlight the plight of...

7 March 2016 3:21 AM IST

Tibetan delegates wear loyalty pins to China Congress

Delegates, wearing pins of images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and former leaders, arrive at the Great Hall of the...

7 March 2016 3:18 AM IST

ISIS bomb blast kills 60 in Iraq

ISIS bomb blast kills 60 in Iraq

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide attack with an explosive-laden fuel tanker on an Iraqi police checkpoint south...

7 March 2016 3:13 AM IST

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: AFP)

Hassan Rouhani: Iran, Turkey back Syrian truce

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says that both Iran and Turkey support the current Syrian ceasefire and the...

7 March 2016 3:08 AM IST

Ahead of Joe Biden visit, Israel PM hails ties with US

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday of “strong” ties with the United States ahead of a...

7 March 2016 3:06 AM IST

Veteran Sudan Islamist Turabi laid to rest

Veteran Sudan Islamist Turabi laid to rest

Senior Sudanese officials joined some 3,000 mourners on Sunday at the funeral of veteran Islamist leader Hassan Turabi,...

7 March 2016 3:03 AM IST

Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders peg back Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs the arm of a girl at the CFE Arena on the campus of the University...

7 March 2016 2:46 AM IST

Angela Merkel’s deputy calls Donald Trump a threat to peace

Angela Merkel’s deputy calls Donald Trump a threat to peace

Germany’s vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday that US billionaire Donald Trump, frontrunner for the...

7 March 2016 2:43 AM IST

EU to push Turkey to take back more migrants on a ‘large...

A boy caries bread at the makeshift camp near the Greek village of Idomeni, on the Macedonian border, on Sunday. —...

7 March 2016 2:41 AM IST

German minister feels Brexit would be poisonous

German minister feels Brexit would be poisonous

A British vote to leave the European Union would damage the British, European and global economies, German finance...

7 March 2016 2:38 AM IST

Despite rejecting it, Qaeda in Syria respects truce

Despite rejecting it, Qaeda in Syria respects truce

Although Al Qaeda’s wing in Syria has rejected an international effort to halt nearly five years of conflict, its...

7 March 2016 12:59 AM IST

Afghan-Pakistan border hub of terror activities: Sartaj Aziz

Madrasas along the Af-Pak border and tribal areas, in particular North Waziristan, had become a hub of terrorist...

6 March 2016 5:23 AM IST