NEW YORK: Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at...
NEW YORK: Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at...
Washington: The US House of Representatives on Friday joined the Senate in passing a critical measure that marks the first major step toward...
Mexico City: Mexico appointed its third ambassador to the United States in less than a year just days before inauguration of President-elect Donald...
Kathmandu: Ten years after the end of Nepal’s bloody civil war, the Himalayan republic has failed to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses...
Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry...
Colombo: Several districts in Sri Lanka would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the...
Colombo: Sri Lanka yesterday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its streets after road...
New Delhi: The replacement of Mahatma Gandhi's photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)'s annual calendar and diary...
There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other...
Guwahati: India’s army chief yesterday said that more "surgical strikes" would be carried out in Pakistan"if the situation warrants", local media reported. "Surgical...
Beijing: China has a range of economic, diplomatic and military options to retaliate if the US and South Korea proceed with deployment of...
Ho Chi Minh City: John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington's 'pivot' to...
Washington: US President Barack Obama took the controversial step of easing some economic sanctions against Sudan Friday, trying to improve relations with a...
Brasília: Brazilian police said they launched a major search for evidence Friday in a big fraud probe targeting an ex-minister of President Michel...
Bamako: France's top diplomat Jean-Marc Ayrault struck a defiant tone at a summit on Friday with foreign ministers from across Africa as he...
International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of...
United Nations, United States: Israel's UN ambassador on Friday raised concern over what he said were moves at the Security Council to adopt...
