Beijing, August 16 (PTI): China on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven "die-hard" pro-independence Taiwanese politicians and officials, including Taipei's representative to Washington, amid conce
Moscow, August 16 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington's alleged efforts
Putrajaya, August 16 (AP): Malaysia's top court ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday to begin his final appeal in two days after rejecting his request that it throw out his graft conviction
Tehran, August 15 (AP): An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country's first public comments on the atta
Colombo, August 14 (PTI): Cash-strapped Sri Lankan government has lifted the ban on six Tamil diaspora groups and 316 individuals as it scrambles to find long-term solutions to the island nation's unprecede
Islamabad, August 14 (PTI): The Pakistan government has launched an unprecedented crackdown on journalists supporting its opponents, former Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday, warning that the country wil
Kyiv, August 14 (AP): Russian forces on Sunday fired rockets on the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, killing at least one person, and a Russian diplomat called on Ukraine to offer security assurances so tha
Taipei, August 14 (AP): A delegation of American lawmakers is visiting Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China.
The five-member delegation, led by Democratic Sen
CAIRO, August 14 (AP): Egypt’s Coptic Church says a fire at a Cairo church Sunday killed at least 41 people and injured at least 14 others.
The Church, citing health officials for the casualty toll, sa
MAYVILLE, August 14 (AP): “The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New
New York, August 13 (PTI): Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator with damaged liver and may lose an eye after the Mumbai-born controversial author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man at a speaking event i
Washington, August 13 (IANS): US federal agents took away 11 sets of classified documents from the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump during an unprecedented search earlier this week, according
Tehran, August 13 (AP): Iranians reacted with praise and worry on Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ca
New York, August 13 (PTI): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is "appalled" to learn about the attack on author Salman Rushdie, saying that in no case is violence a response to words spoken or writ
Washington, August 13 (PTI): China's actions to "intimidate and coerce" Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei are fundamentally at odds with the goal of peace and st
New York, August 12 (PTI): Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children', was stabbed and suffered a neck wound when a man stormed the stage during an eve
Bangkok, August 12 (PTI): Gotabaya Rajapaksa is staying at a hotel here in the heart of Thailand's capital, where police have advised the ousted Sri Lankan president to remain indoors for security reasons,
London, August 12 (PTI): Amid prolonged heatwave conditions, large parts of England were on Friday officially declared as being drought-hit, which means restrictions will be placed on domestic and commercial wa
Bristol, August 12 (The Conversation): The Earth is approximately 1.1 degree Celsius warmer than it was at the start of the industrial revolution. That warming has not been uniform, with some regions warming at
Seoul, August 12 (AP): South Korea's president will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president as part of a massive corruption scandal that toppled her governm