New Delhi, (The Hindu), NOV 10, 2017 - With the air quality in Delhi hitting hazardous levels over the past few days, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said it would meet on Friday to discuss the 

 (c) 2017, Bloomberg Nov 09, 2017 -   The headline number is impressive: A quarter-trillion dollars worth of deals from China that President Donald Trump can use to show he’s creating opportunities for U.S. businesses and jobs fo

Vatican, (Daily Mail), 9 November 2017 -  Pope Francis will host a nuclear summit at the Vatican tomorrow. Nobel Peace Prize winners alongside representatives from the UN, NATO, America and Russia will be in attendance. 

US President Donald Trump arrived in Tokyo on Sunday, kicking off his first presidential trip to Asia with the North Korean nuclear crisis and trade expected to be high on the agenda.   

Australia, (Daily Mail), 4 November 2017 - Australians are being warned to reconsider travelling to the Philippines amid fears of a ‘high threat’ of terrorist attacks.  

Sydney (dpa) Nov 5, 2017-  Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Sunday that while he appreciates New Zealand’s offer to resettle refugees currently on Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Manus Island, he will “not be

BRUSSELS AFP Nov4, 2017- It could take three months for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his ex-ministers to be returned to Spain under a European arrest warrant, Belgian authorities said Saturday.   Spanish prosecutors w

Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has labelled Australia as a country founded by invasion, theft of land and genocide in a rant in support of the Manus Island asylum seekers.  

REUTERS, 3 November, 2017-  People in Thailand celebrated the Loy Krathong or “floating basket” festival on Friday, following a year of mourning for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej that saw many celebrations muted or cancelled. &nb

AFP, 3 November, 2017- Syrian troops on Friday retook the last major city where the Islamic State group had a presence as Iraqi forces seized a crossing by the jihadists’ last urban bastion across the border.   

A judge in Madrid has jailed eight former Catalan regional ministers behind the failed independence bid over fears they will attempt to flee  the country.  

Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared in court on Friday, a day after returning from overseas to face corruption allegations that saw him ejected from office and targeted with an arrest warrant.   

 Johannesburg (dpa) - South Africa’s state prosecutor will seek a harsher prison sentence for jailed paralympian Oscar Pistorius Friday, arguing his six-year term for murder is too lenient.   

US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the death penalty for the suspect accused of a deadly New York terrorist attack, as the 29-year-old appeared in one of the city’s courts in a wheelchair.   

UK, (Daily Mail/Reuters), 2 November 2017 -   Theresa May installed chief whip Gavin Williamson as the new Defence Secretary.   

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, in an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army

NEW DELHI AFP Nov2, 2017 -An Indian court Thursday sentenced two men to life in prison for raping their 10-year-old niece, in a case that hit headlines when her appeal for a late-term abortion was rejected, a lawyer said.   

MADRID AFP Nov2, 2017- Cheered by supporters, Catalonia’s separatist leaders arrived Thursday in Madrid to be grilled and potentially charged in another day of high drama in Spain’s crisis over the region’s independence drive. 

Investigators probing the background of the 29-year-old man they say mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan bike path believe he was a lone wolf who “radicalized domestically” after coming to the United States, New York Gov. A

THE HINDU, 01st NOVEMBER, 2017- Japan’s Shinzo Abe was re-elected Prime Minister on Wednesday after his ruling bloc’s big election win last month and days ahead of a visit by U.S. 

DPA, 01st NOVEMBER, 2017- Wednesday is the last day of France’s state of emergency, imposed after terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in which 130 people were killed.

Exasperated U.S. senators harshly criticized representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google at a hearing on Tuesday for not doing more to prevent Russian agents interfering with the American political process as early as 2015. At one point, Sen. Al

REUTERS, 1 November, 2017- A lawyer for dismissed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, due to appear in a Spanish court this week to answer charges relating to Catalonia’s push for independence, said he would not return to testify but could answer

At least 200 people have been killed at a nuclear test site in North Korea after a tunnel collapsed, according to an unverified Japanese media report.  

WASHINGTON - The hardest part for official Washington, D.C., is not knowing what happens next.    Amid the fast-moving criminal investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election, every corner of the city finds itself preparing for

 JERUSALEM - Israel’s military said Monday that it destroyed an attack tunnel that led into its territory from the Gaza Strip, killing at least seven Palestinian militants, including a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad group and two me

REUTERS, 31 October, 2017  -Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said.&

KUTUPALONG AFP Oct30, 2017-The Rohingya boys and girls shrieked with delight as the clowns juggled hoops and somersaulted, their red-nosed antics provoking a sound rarely heard in the world’s largest refugee camp -- children’s laughter.&n

Spain is on a knife edge as it grapples with the worst constitutional crisis in its contemporary history, triggered by an unlawful Catalan independence referendum on October 1 that was shunned by many and marred by police violence.   

PRAGUE AFP Oct29, 2017 - At least three people died in a windstorm that hit central Europe on Sunday, causing widespread power outages and traffic disruptions, rescuers said.