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Kim Jong-un seeks to cement power at rare congress

Journalists watch a television broadcast showing a speech by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the media room in...

7 May 2016 3:48 AM IST

Pope Francis tells EU to tear down walls

Pope Francis receives the European Union’s Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification at the...

7 May 2016 3:26 AM IST

Alexander Prokhorenko

‘Russian Rambo’, hero of Kremlin’s Syria war, buried

A special forces officer killed in Syria, nicknamed the “Russian Rambo” by state media, was buried on...

7 May 2016 3:16 AM IST

NDAA for the fiscal year 2017, if passed by Congress, would not allow US govt to waive this condition in national interest.

US Cong seeks to block $450 million aid to Pakistan

The move is cited to the country’s inability to take action against the Haqqani network.

6 May 2016 12:48 PM IST

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Rome. (Photo: AFP)

Angela Merkel warns of return to nationalism

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged European leaders to protect the EU’s external borders or risk a...

6 May 2016 6:45 AM IST

Motiur Rahman Nizami

Bangladesh Islamist party leader to hang for war crimes

Top leader of Bangladesh’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami on Thursday faced a major setback...

6 May 2016 6:41 AM IST

2 confess to killing Pakistani Sikh minister

The Pakistani police on Thursday said that two men had confessed to the killing special assistant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

6 May 2016 6:33 AM IST

Smoke rises as a wildfire burns in Fort McMurray. (Photo: AP)

Canada: Raging wildfires force thousands to flee

A massive wildfire near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, that has grown to five times its initial size has spread...

6 May 2016 6:31 AM IST

London looks ready to elect Muslim mayor

Labour party candidate for mayor of London Sadiq Khan (right) poses for photographers with his wife Saadiya as they...

6 May 2016 6:25 AM IST

Jamaat-e-Islami party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami. (Photo: AP)

Bangladesh clears execution of top Islamist leader for war crimes

Nizami was convicted of murder, rape and orchestrating killing of intellectuals during 1971 independence struggle.

5 May 2016 2:01 PM IST

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Photo: AP)

Judge says Hillary Clinton may have to testify in email lawsuit

Clinton has come under fire for using a private email account and server at her home for official emails when she was a...

5 May 2016 11:03 AM IST

Sadiq Khan, a Muslim lawmaker from Britains opposition Labour Party. (Photo: AP)

London set to elect Muslim mayor after divisive campaign

Tensions over the campaign have been exacerbated by a simmering row over anti-Semitism in the Labour party.

5 May 2016 9:08 AM IST