Category: International

The UN has kicked off the process to elect the next Secretary General, with the Security Council and General Assembly making an unprecedented call to

Thailand’s junta is stepping up its offensive against critics, with a military court on Tuesday sentencing a single mother to seven years in jail fo

The tributes and the vigil at the Place de la Republique square in Paris continue with candles, flowers and the occasional song. Everyday, volunteers

Fifty-five journalists have been killed across the world so far this year. In purely statistical terms, it signifies an improvement. It is six fewer t

Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has been awarded this year’s “Jewish Nobel” for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocat

New Zealanders chose a new flag design on Tuesday but the question now is whether enough people will rally behind it to oust the current flag. Final r

France’s far-right Front National, led by Marine Le Pen, has failed to win control of any regions in the final round of local elections despite a hi

Donald Trump has hit back against U.K. critics of his stand against Islam, saying Britain had “a massive Muslim problem”. The leading Republican p

Tony Blair telephoned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and tried to persuade him to leave Libya as the Arab Spring erupted in February 2011, the former B

Pakistan on Friday successfully test-fired the medium-range Shaheen-III surface-to-surface ballistic missile which can carry nuclear warheads within a

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul on Friday, and said fighting was still goi

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared on Thursday to claim his country has developed a hydrogen bomb, a step up from the less powerful atomic bomb,

With world leaders committing to an ambitious Paris deal during the first week of the UN climate change summit, hopes were running high that the conce

The climate talks in Paris went into overtime on Thursday night, as countries hit a hurdle on three major issues — the differentiation between devel

When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to learn more, he found a virtual communi

Congressmen, rival candidates, world leaders and even the creators of Harry Potter and The Shining all agree — Donald Trump’s call to block Muslim

As Beijing and its surroundings continue to choke, Chinese netizens are keeping up the pressure to clean up the air and water on a government which ha

Two American Senators have introduced legislation in the Senate proposing to cut the number of popular H-1B visas by 15,000 and that such a visa be gi

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the progress made in climate change negotiations currently u

Myanmar inaugurated a new stock exchange on Wednesday with plans for six companies to start trading in March next year. The Yangon Stock Exchange will