Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off his West Bengal Assembly poll campaign officially yesterday by lashing out against Chief Minister

African-American poet Amanda Gorman, who became a star after her reading at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, has said a security guard claimed

China yesterday urged the United States to remove “unreasonable” curbs on cooperation as soon as possible and work together on issues like

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan survived a vote of confidence by the country’s parliament yesterday, days after his party lost a key Senate seat to an opposition candidate.

Pope Francis entered a narrow alleyway in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to hold a historic meeting with the county’s top Shia cleric and visited the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham yesterday to condemn violence in the name of God as “the greatest blasphemy”.

Guarded by police and soldiers, authorities in Myanmar disturbed the grave of a 19-year-old woman who became an icon of the anti-coup protest movement after she was shot dead wearing a T-shirt that read “Everything will be OK”, a witness and local media said.

Authorities in Inner Mongolia must “solve ethnic problems” and push the use of the Mandarin language, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, months after the region was rocked by protests over a new rule that would reduce the use of the local language.

Indian farmers yesterday blocked a six-lane expressway outside New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against deregulation of agriculture markets, to add pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

Fierce fighting between Yemeni pro-government forces and Iran-backed Huthi rebels has killed at least 90 combatants on both sides in the past 24

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Thai capital yesterday evening to demand that authorities release some protest leaders from jail,

Washington’s special envoy to Afghanistan met with the Taliban in Qatar, the insurgents said yesterday, as efforts intensify to revive a peace

The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the Red Planet, the US space agency Nasa said Friday.

Pope Francis held a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Saturday, in a powerful appeal for coexistence in a country torn by sectarianism and violence.

At least 20 people drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard during a crossing between Djibouti and Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.

An outlawed Maoist group accused of staging several attacks signed a peace deal with Nepal’s communist government yesterday, bringing an end to the country’s only active insurgency.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday termed the coming high-stakes assembly elections in the state as the “easiest” election her party has ever faced and announced she would contest from Nandigram constituency.

Pope Francis, beginning the first trip by a pontiff to Iraq, made an impassioned call yesterday for an end to the militant violence and religious strife

Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective

The UN yesterday said it was yet to see evidence from the United Arab Emirates that Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa was still alive, a fortnight after seeking