Beijing (IANS) China on Monday trashed Turkey's allegations that nearly one million Uighur Muslims were subjected to torture and political brainwashing at concentration camps and prisons in the Xinjiang region.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson…
Istanbul (IANS) The death toll has risen to 21 three days after an eight-storey residential building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey's interior minister announced.
Speaking at a crisis centre near the scene in Kartal district, Suleyman Soylu…
Moscow (IANS) The dismantling of arms control system by the United States might cause unpredictable consequences, Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said on Saturday.
"Look what is going on in…
Lagos (IANS) A stampede on Thursday among thousands of supporters at the political rally for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election killed five people and injured others in the east state of Taraba.
Dorcas Philemon, spokesperson…
London (IANS) Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his country will present a strong case against alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at a hearing scheduled for later this…
New Delhi (IANS) India will train 1,800 Bangladeshi civil servants in the fields of e-governance and service delivery, information technology, ethics in administration over the next six years, the Ministry of Personnel said.
The…
Washington (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he has chosen David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department, as the US candidate for the next president of the World Bank.
Calling…
New York (IANS) US President Donald Trump has proposed a new nuclear missiles treaty that has the potential to include India as he delivered the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
Defending his decision to…
Washington (IANS) US President Donald Trump kicked off his annual State of the Union address before Congress with a call for bipartisanship.
He used the speech on Tuesday that came after a week's delay due to a 35-day government…
Islamabad (IANS) Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar has proposed changes in the initial plan of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in order to make them more investor friendly.
In a…