Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and industrial zone. The plan envisages the eviction of thousands of villagers around...
She has every right to feel her own sense of self-importance, particularly if she is also the deputy to a veritable “diplomatic thug” like Alhaji Said Sinare, the Egyptian-mothered Ghana’s...
I want to praise you for your role in the Syrian issues especially the liberation of Aleppo. For the first time in four years, Christians in Aleppo celebrated Christmas and that was achieved through...
Russia has called a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian opposition groups a "hostile act" that would directly threaten Russian military forces in Syria. Maria Zakharova, Russian foreign...
China will encourage labor-intensive manufacturing industries located along the eastern coast to relocate inland, it said in a new 2016-2020 plan to develop the economy of its western regions. The...
Unconfirmed reports said the plane was flying to Syria's Latakia province. A Russian military plane has disappeared from radar just minutes after take-off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, local...
The Israeli government reached out to President-elect Donald Trump for help in pressuring the Obama administration to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement activity, a senior...
Egypt postponed a U. N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel's prime minister and U.S....
Quite untill recently Kazakhstan was commonly identified as an impervious, legendary and fascinating place, one of passionate, bloody dusks whose natural beauty, combined with the landscape...
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution that would demand Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,...
Bana Alabed - the seven-year-old Syrian who tweeted about life inside rebel-held east Aleppo - has met Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting...
The government of Sao Tome and Principe has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, officials said. China welcomed the decision by the African island nation saying it was "back onto the correct path of the...
Alhaji Said Sinari, Ghana’s envoy to Saudi Arabia is reported to have told the media that New Patriotic Party (NPP) residents in the oil-rich country have vandalised the country’s mission in...
The body of the Russian ambassador assassinated by a Turkish policeman in Ankara has been flown home. Andrei Karlov was shot by Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, nine times as he gave a speech on Monday,...
With Russia's backing, the United Nations Security Council on Monday voted to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations and report on the fate of civilians who remain in the...
Ten people were killed and 34 were wounded Sunday in what a Jordanian official called a "cowardly terrorist attack." After firing at police officers at two locations, gunmen moved into an ancient...
Major cinemas in Pakistan have agreed to end a ban on Indian films imposed when relations between the two countries deteriorated in September. The decision to ban the films came amid a rise in...
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone. The films are said to be popular with Pakistani audiences Major cinemas in Pakistan have agreed to end a ban on Indian films imposed when relations between the two...
A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the US...
The death toll from last weekend's bombing of a Coptic church in Cairo has risen to 26 after an elderly woman died of her injuries, Egypt's health ministry said Friday. Odette Saleh Mikhail, 70, was...
