Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant
Reuters, Stockholm :A Swedish lower court upheld on Wednesday the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, saying the stay at Ecuador’s London embassy did...
International
Iraq forces push towards Fallujah from south
AFP, Baghdad :Iraqi forces pushed towards Islamic State group bastion Fallujah on Wednesday from areas to the south as part of operations to retake the...
Greece moves thousands of migrants from Idomeni camp
Reuters, Greece :Greek police started moving migrants and refugees out of a sprawling tent camp on the sealed northern border with Macedonia on Tuesday where...
Obama calls for peaceful settlement of South China Sea disputes
AFP, Hanoi, Vietnam :US President Barack Obama today called for territorial disputes in the South China Sea to be “resolved peacefully” as Vietnam baulks at...
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1400 km long road to connect India, Thailand, MyanmarPTI, BangkokIndia, Thailand and Myanmar are working on a 1,400-kilometre long highway that will link India with...
China ready to `accelerate` talks to resolve border dispute with India
PTI, Beijing :On the eve of President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit, China today struck a positive note saying that both the countries have been taking positive...
Corruption scandal throws Brazil’s interim govt into disarray
AFP, Brasília :Acting Brazilian president Michel Temer’s government faced its first major crisis Monday when a key minister stepped aside following a leaked recording in...
India uses outdated laws to silence dissent, HRW says
AFP, New Delhi :India routinely uses outdated and loosely worded laws to crack down on dissent, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, urging the government to...
EgyptAir remains point to blast, no explosives traces so far
Reuters, Cairo :Human remains retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight suggest that there was an explosion on board the plane, although no traces of explosives...
Blasts kill more than 120 in Syrian govt coastal heartland
Reuters, Beirut :Bomb blasts killed more than 120 people in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous on Monday, monitors said, in a government-controlled...
Obama lifts decades-old arms ban in his 1st visit to Vietnam
AP, Hanoi :U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam during his first visit to the communist country,...
Suu Kyi calls for ‘space’ to address plight of Rohingya Muslims
Reuters, Naypyidaw :Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given “enough space” to address the plight of her country’s Rohingya Muslim population, as visiting...