India cannot meet China half way in the disengagement process as the country has to maintain troops for the protection of territory, an official source said, as the sixth round of Corps Commander-level talks began yesterday, aimed at ending the five-month-long standoff along the disputed boundary in Ladakh.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said European leaders “haven’t lifted a finger” to halt arms sales to Iran after they rejected a unilateral US declaration that UN sanctions on Tehran were back in force.

President Donald Trump yesterday prepared to push ahead with plans for his third US Supreme Court nomination, which would cement a 6-3 conservative majority, as some Republicans wavered on whether to support the move weeks ahead of an election.

Bahrain’s move to establish ties with Israel was not directed against any entity or power but aimed to bring about a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has said.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 stone coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry of tourism and antiquities says.

The wealthiest one percent of earth’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth, according to a press release issued by Oxfam.

Robert W Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionised outdoor wear and helped spawn uses in numerous other fields, has died. He was 83.

HSBC and Standard Chartered's Hong Kong shares dropped on Monday after media reports that they and other banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over nearly two decades despite red flags about the origins of the money.

Pakistan’s deposed premier Nawaz Sharif yesterday staged a political comeback by criticising the powerful Army and said the opposition was not against Prime Minister Imran Khan but against those who brought an “inefficient” man to power.

US authorities have intercepted an envelope addressed to US President Donald Trump that contained a substance identified as the poison ricin,

At least 12 civilians were killed and more than 10 others injured on Saturday in twin airstrikes on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque called Saturday for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to be prosecuted as a “war criminal” in a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Two days of Chinese military aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese

Iran yesterday said its arch-foe the United States was “isolated” after a US unilateral declaration that UN sanctions are back in force against the Islamic republic was dismissed by other major powers.

Thousands of protesters cheered as activists installed a plaque in Bangkok Sunday declaring that Thailand “belongs to the people” -- the boldest show of defiance in a youth-led movement which is questioning the unassailable monarchy’s role in the country.

More than a thousand people gathered in central London to protest against lockdown measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, before the event was broken up by police.

The death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could spell bad news for Democrats if a legal battle over the results of the November 3 presidential election reaches the high court, as it did in 2000.

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday endorsed a protocol for testing African herbal medicines as potential treatments for the coronavirus and other epidemics.

At least 12 civilians were killed and more than 10 others injured on Saturday in twin airstrikes on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz, a provincial official said.

Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers.