DPA, 14th MARCH, 2018-Angela Merkel has been sworn in as German chancellor before the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin.

REUTERS, 14th MRACH, 2018- Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah survived an assassination attempt in Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority said after an apparent roadside bomb targeted his motorcade. 

THE HINDU, 14th MARCH, 2018- While the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury on March 4 may appear to have similarities to the circumstances around the death of former FSB agent Alexan

US President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday and replaced him with CIA director Mike Pompeo, ending an acrimonious 13-month relationship.

An explosion targeted Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah’s convoy as he arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for a rare visit, lightly wounding seven people, officials and witnesses said.   

Nine personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and three others were injured in an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Tuesday afternoon.  

State-owned Qatar Petroleum announced Tuesday it has signed a deal with Abu Dhabi to operate a shared offshore oil field, despite a bitter diplomatic rift between the Gulf neighbours.   

A federal judge has released the terrifying video of a gang member defendant in a racketeering trial attacking a witness with a pen, before he is shot dead by a marshal.  

Fahim, (c) 2018, The Washington Post ·Mar 10, 2018 -In an effort to repair tattered relations, the Trump administration has told Turkey it will move to rein in Kurdish fighters that have been the backbone of the U.S. campaign against the Islam

British police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence in their investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter,Interior Minister Amber Rudd said on Saturday.  &nbs

Beijing, (Reuters),11 March 2018 -  Any trade war with the United States will only bring disaster to the world economy, Chinese commerce minister Zhong Shan said on Sunday, as Beijing stepped up its criticism onproposed metals tariffs by Washing

DPA, 11th MARCH, 2018-The Chinese parliament on Sunday scrapped presidential term limits, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely over the world’s most populous country. Out of 2,963 delegates at the annual session of the N

Returning to her home state, Kerala, two days after the Supreme Court upheld the validity of her marriage to a Muslim man, Hadiya Jahan on Saturday blamed the ordeal she experienced on the fact that she had converted to Islam before the wedding. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to meet US President Donald Trump by May, a top South Korean security official announced Thursday in Washington, in an unprecedented development.

THE HINDU, 09th MARCH, 2018- Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe sent shockwaves through the party he dominated for decades when he posed with the retired general who will take on the ruling ZANU-PF in this year’s election.

REUTERS, 09th MARCH, 2018-  In joyous celebrations and angry protests, women around the world came together in gatherings large and small on Thursday to mark International Women’s Day with a call for gender equality.

REUTERS, 09th MARCH, 2018- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s slurs against U.N. human rights activists suggest he needs to see a psychiatrist, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told a news conference on F

BEIRUT AFP March9, 2018- An aid convoy entered Syria’s battered Eastern Ghouta Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, after a previous delivery was cut short by bombardment of the rebel enclave.  

Theresa May today branded an attempt to kill a Russian double agent with a nerve agent an ‘appalling and reckless crime’.  

US, (Daccan Chronicle/reuters), Mar 8, 2018 -US President Donald Trump has won an arbitration proceeding against adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday, a day after Daniels sued Trump for the right to speak about the &ld

HAMMURIYEH AFP March 8, 2018- Syrian forces pursued a relentless air and ground offensive against Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, moving closer to retaking the rebel enclave but also depriving desperate civilians of vital aid.   

UK, (Daily Mail), 8 March 2018 -  Humanity would be virtually powerless to stop the spread of a killer flu virus that could take 33 million lives in just 200 days, experts have warned.   

By Amy B Wang (Canada), March 7 2018 -   In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.   

North Korea has said it will not need to keep its nuclear weapons if military threats against the country are resolved and it receives a credible security guarantee, South Korea has said today.

DPA, 06th MARCH, 2018- An estimated 12 million girls under 18 are getting married every year globally, according to new data from UNICEF released on Tuesday.

 UK, (Daily Mail), 6 March 2018 -   England could boycott the World Cup in Russia this summer if the Kremlin is shown to be responsible for a suspected assassination attempt of an ex-spy, Boris Johnson suggested today.   

 The Communist candidate running against Vladimir Putin in this month’s presidential polls risks being barred over allegations he failed to declare Swiss bank accounts containing $1 million, Russian media reported Tuesday.   Pave

Despite President Donald Trump’s public statements appearing to oppose sanctions against Russia, the steps ordered by Congress will be imposed in coming weeks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday.   

China announced on Monday an 8.1 per cent defence budget increase for 2018. Beijing will spend 1.11 trillion yuan (US$175 billion) on its military, according to a budget report presented before the opening session of the annual National People’

A high-ranking Democrat Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, spoke out on Sunday about the mounting allegations about Kushner’s family financial dealings in the Middle East, and implications that he used US foreign policy as a tool of personal