ASEAN member countries of RCEP offer India concession
Several Asian member countries of the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have offered India a significant ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Youngest woman ever elected to US Congress
New York Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will win her general election race easily and become the youngest ...
14 million ‘on brink of famine’ in Yemen: charities
Thirty-five Yemeni and international NGOs called Wednesday for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in Yemen, where ...
Too soon to send Rohingya back to Myanmar: U.N. rights envoy
GENEVA : The United Nations’ human rights investigator on Myanmar urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to drop plans to start repatriating ...
U.S. says to issue chemical weapons-related sanctions against Russia
WASHINGTON : The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it would impose additional sanctions on Russia after Moscow failed to give ...
Sri Lankan parliament to reconvene on Nov 14
Colombo, Nov 5 : Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has called for parliament to be reconvened on the 14th of November at ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe says U.S., Japan freeze aid over political crisis
COLOMBO : Sri Lanka’s deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the United States and Japan had frozen more than a billion ...
France’s ‘Pacific pebble’ New Caledonia rejects independence
Islanders on the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia rejected independence on Sunday in a referendum, but the results showed ...
Bahrain opposition chief gets life in jail over Qatar spy case
Bahrain sentenced the head of the country’s Shiite opposition movement to life in prison Sunday for spying for rival Gulf state ...
Twitter removed thousands of accounts discouraging US vote participation
Twitter has deleted thousands of automated accounts, many posing as Democrats, that were posting tweets encouraging US voters to sit ...