The fate of 629 migrants on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean was in the balance last night amid fears of mutiny.   

Hanoi (dpa),Jun 12 2018-Controversial legislation was passed on Tuesday that will force overseas technology firms to censor content and share data on Vietnamese users with the government, state media reported. The bill passed in Vietnam’s Natio

OTTAWA (Reuters), JUNE 12 2018-U.S. President Donald Trump’s blistering attack on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has driven bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades and left Ottawa with few options for averting a trade war w

Berlin (dpa),Jun 12 2018- Moscow and Kiev have agreed to several measures to de-escalate the conflict in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday after talks in Berlin, but a breakthrough remained elusive.   

DPA, 12th JUNE, 2018- Just hours after concluding his historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump expressed optimism that denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula would happen “quickly” and that he and K

President Donald Trump arrived here Sunday night ahead of a potentially historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the first meeting between the leaders of two countries that have been sworn enemies for almost seven decades.  

QUEBEC CITY, (Reuters), Jun 11 2018 - The United States and Canada swung sharply on Sunday toward a diplomatic and trade crisis as top White House advisers lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a day after U.S. President Trump called h

DPA, 11th JUNE, 2018 - Ukraine and Russia are set to pave the way for a relaunch of conflict resolution talks in the German capital on Monday, with Germany and France serving as mediators. Pro-Russian rebels wanting to split from Kiev in the Russian-

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un landed in Singapore on Sunday ahead of his historic summit with US President Donald Trump, local media reported.   

Baghdad (dpa), 10 June 2018 - Iraq’s top judicial authority on Sunday selected a group of judges to oversee a manual recount of the votes cast in last month’s parliamentary polls, amid allegations of mass rigging and tampering with the ba

Frankfurt (dpa), 10 June 1018 -   An Iraqi asylum seeker accused of killing a teenage girl in Germany was immediately taken for questioning after arriving back in the country late Saturday following his extradition from Iraqi Kurdistan.&nbs

QINGDAO (CHINA), (The Hindu), 10 June 2018 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday shook hands with Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain and had a brief chat with him at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit here.  The two le

KABUL AFP June9, 2018-The Taliban announced its first ceasefire in Afghanistan since the 2001 US invasion on Saturday, with a three-day halt in hostilities against the country’s security forces that was greeted with relief by war-weary Afghans.

Donald Trump is open to a peace agreement and normalized diplomatic relations with Pyongyang including a potential visit to the United States by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the US president said just days before their scheduled summit.  &nb

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Argentinian authorities on Thursday reached an agreement on a 50-billion-dollar stand-by loan to help strengthen the South American country’s economy.   

REUTERS, 08th JUNE, 2018- Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations are set to clash with a combative U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday when they pressure him to lift sanctions on steel and aluminum they fear could lead to a trade war.

Hindustan times (Reuters, Ottawa), Jun 08 2018- Canada’s Senate on Thursday voted to legalise recreational marijuana, clearing a major hurdle that puts the country on track to become the first Group of Seven nation to permit national use of the

U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackd

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced a week-long ceasefire with the Taliban to coincide with the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.   

BAGHDAD REUTERS June 7-- Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers on Thursday to remain calm after an explosion killed 18 people in his main stronghold in Baghdad just hours after parliament called for a recount of votes in an election hi

STOCKHOLM AFP June7, 2018- A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a radicalised Uzbek asylum seeker to life in prison for terrorism after he mowed down pedestrians with a stolen truck in central Stockholm last year, killing five people.   

Jordan’s designated new prime minister said on Thursday he would drop a proposed tax law, conceding to a key demand of protesters who have already brought down the government.   

The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday as preparations accelerated for next week’s event.

REUTERS, 06th JUNE, 2018-The Syrian government re-opened the highway between the cities of Homs and Hama on Wednesday a month after its forces retook a rebel-held pocket that had straddled the road that was closed for almost seven years.

Rome (dpa), Jun 6 2018- Italy’s new populist coalition won a confidence vote in the Senate on Tuesday, with lawmakers in the upper chamber approving its cabinet and government programme.   

THE HINDU, 06th JUNE, 2018-Maria Fernanda Espinosa is the fourth woman elected to head the UN body.

REUTERS, 06th JUNE, 2018-Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of rape and sexual assault, his lawyer said, in the first cases involving the disgraced producer to be tested in criminal court since scores of accusers em

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview broadcast on Monday, said he did not want to divide the European Union as he prepared to visit Austria in his first bilateral trip to a West European country in almost a year.   

DPA, 05th JUNE, 2018- Over 60 nations have introduced measures to reduce plastic pollution but stronger action is needed as the world is facing a plastic waste crisis, a UN report said on Tuesday. The report released to mark World Environment Day sai

REUTERS, 05th JUNE, 2018-  Iran has begun preparations to boost its uranium enrichment capacity, its nuclear chief said on Tuesday, adding to pressure on European powers trying to save a nuclear accord with Tehran in peril after a U.S. withdrawa