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The Foreign Office in a statement said Pakistan reaffirms the right of every child to grow, learn, play and flourish with dignity. (Photo: Representational | PTI)World
World should keep in mind plight of children in Kashmir: Pak

Pakistan has been trying to internationalise the Kashmir issue.

20 Nov 2019 9:02 PM IST

Two brothers led a decisive campaign that helped end island nations three decade long civil war against LTTE. (Photo: AP)World
Brothers to run Lanka: Prez Rajapaksa names elder brother Mahinda as...

Mahinda, the current main opposition leader, will assume duties soon after incumbent Wickremesinghe steps down formally...

20 Nov 2019 7:38 PM IST

Israel has repeatedly bombed Iranian targets in neighbouring Syria, but an expansion of the campaign to Iraq -- where the Jewish state struck the Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 -- would risk damaging Washingtons relations with Baghdad. (Photo: AP)World
'Wide-scale' Israeli strikes kill 11 fighters in Syria: monitor

The Israeli army said they had targeted around a dozen military sites, including warehouses and military command...

20 Nov 2019 4:44 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has formed a seven-member committee in connection with the status of Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)World
'Imran Khan-led govt's days are numbered,' warns Pak cleric Fazlur...

alleging that the 'selected' government has offered National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to Khan's sister.

20 Nov 2019 2:46 PM IST

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (Photo: AP)World
Trump spokeswoman says Obama aides left mean notes during 2017...

Numerous Obama aides denounced the accusation as fiction.

20 Nov 2019 2:34 PM IST

The missiles fired by the North last week were described as a new type of tactical guided short-range weapon. (Photo: AFP)World
Pentagon says Iran developed largest missile force in Middle East...

A US intelligence official said on condition of anonymity that the assessment included Israel.

20 Nov 2019 2:00 PM IST

Vindman, a Soviet Jewish immigrant, felt it necessary to state his allegiance as he batted away Republican questions about the offers he got to work for Ukraines government. (Photo: AP)World
I am an American,' Vindman reminds Trump allies in impeachment hearing

The exchange highlighted the extent to which identity politics are playing a role in the impeachment investigation...

20 Nov 2019 1:50 PM IST

The news coming from Sudan these days evoke pain and concern. Lets pray for this people, so that the violence stops and the dialogue helps find the common well-being, the Pope was quoted saying. (Photo: ANI)World
When music met tech: Japan uses song co-created by AI to welcome Pope...

Written by Inoue, song, 'Protect all Life - Signs of the Times', is based on theme of Pope's Japan visit and was partly...

20 Nov 2019 1:42 PM IST

The grand jury indictment provides a damning glimpse of safety lapses inside a high-security unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York, where Epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. (Photo: AP)World
2 guards responsible for monitoring Epstein charged with falsifying...

Epstein's death was a major embarrassment for the US Bureau of Prisons.

20 Nov 2019 1:30 PM IST

\Potus wanted nothing less than President Zelensky to go to the microphone and say investigations, Biden and Clinton,\ Kent testified. (Photo: File)World
Ukraine getting tired' of Donald Trump scandal, says Volodymyr...

'We have our country, we have our independence, we have our own problems,' Zelensky said.

20 Nov 2019 1:17 PM IST

Bei Bei will travel on a specially equipped direct flight from Washington to Chengdu inside a steel and plexiglass crate, accompanied by his keeper. (Skip Brown/Smithsonians National Zoo)World
Bye Bye, Bei Bei: Last Panda cub in US leaves for China

The four year-old cub, whose name means 'precious, treasure' in Mandarin, was destined to head to China under Beijing's...

20 Nov 2019 11:09 AM IST

The bill - if it becomes law - will demand greater scrutiny of the citys special status, which among other things prohibit the commercial export of certain munitions to the Communist party-controlled Hong Kong Police Force, would provide sanctions against officials responsible for human rights violations in Hong Kong. (Photo: AP)World
US Senate unanimously passes Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

The bill sends a message of bipartisan support from US Congress for the democratic aspirations of the majority of Hong...

20 Nov 2019 10:48 AM IST

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