The Maldivian opposition says the military has locked down parliament on the orders of the country’s president in a bid to prevent lawmakers from taking part in a vote to impeach the parliamentary speaker.

Washington, (Daily Mail), 24 July 2017 -  President Donald Trump has threatened Republicans over their failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.   

REUTERS, 24th JULY, 2017-A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, an attack which shattered a period of relative calm in Pakistan’s second-largest city.

DOHA AFP July24, 2017-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Doha on Monday as part of a Gulf tour aimed at defusing a dispute between Turkey’s ally Qatar and neighbouring Arab states.   

UK, (Daily Mail), 23 July 2017 -  Adults will be able to choose their sex legally without the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria under government plans.   

The president defended his son Donald Trump Jr. and highlighted his ‘complete power to pardon’ while lashing out at the investigation into his presidential campaign’s possible ties to Russia in a Twitter rant on Saturday mornin

REUTERS, 23rd JULY, 2017- Venezuela’s opposition called a two-day national strike against President Nicolas Maduro after another day of violent clashes on Saturday where the injured included a violinist famous for his musical protests.

BEIRUT AFP July 23, 2017- Syria’s regime carried out air raids on one of the last rebel strongholds near Damascus Sunday, a monitor said, a day after it declared a ceasefire in parts of the besieged enclave.    The Syrian army on Satu

India contributes 33 per cent of the total number of child brides in the world with nearly 103 million Indians married before they were 18, said a report released on Friday.  

A 16-year-old Class 10 student allegedly raped by an auto driver for eight months gave birth to a premature girl at her school’s washroom in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar on Thursday.    Police said the girl was impregnated

NEW DELHI AFP July20, 2017-  India’s stand in its border dispute with China is supported by other countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Thursday as she praised tiny Bhutan for standing up to China in the row.   

ISLAMABAD AFP July21, 2017-   The chairman of Pakistan’s financial regulator was arrested Friday, accused of forging documents in a corruption case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that has gripped the country.   

US, (Daily Mail), 21 July 2017 -  Two tourist agencies that operate tours to North Korea said on Friday the U.S. government will soon ban its citizens from travelling to the North.  

India should approach third parties, such as the US and China, to mediate in the Kashmir issue, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Friday.  

Greece/Turkey, (Daily Mail), 21 July 2017 -  Two people died and hundreds injured after a powerful earthquake struck off the Turkish coast overnight, triggering a tsunami that hit tourist resorts in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and damaging

President Trump took aim at Jeff Sessions, fired FBI director James Comey and Robert Mueller in a no-holds barred interview on Wednesday.   

REUTERS, 20th JULY, 2017- The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA’s covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two U.S. officials said, a move sought by Assad

New Delhi, (Compiled fromthe Hindu/Hindustan times), Jul 20, 2017 -     Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday was elected India’s 14th President. He defeated Opposition candidate Meira Kumar.    The National Democratic Alliance (NDA)

(Daily Mail,), 20 July 2017-France’s most senior military officer resigned yesterday following an unprecedented public row with President Emmanuel Macron over £750m-worth of military cuts. 

Saudi Arabia, (Daily Mail,), 20 July 2017 -   A Saudi prince has been arrested on the orders of a furious King Salman after videos appearing to show the young royal abusing men and women emerged.   

London, (Daily Mail0, 18 July 2017 -   London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned Donald Trump that there will be ‘no red carpet’ should he visit the United Kingdom.   

Indian lawmakers voted Monday for a new president certain to come from the bottom of the Hindu caste system, in an election seen as strengthening Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grip on power.   

REUTERS, 18th JULY, 2017- The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled new economic sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile program and for contributing to regional tensions, one day after warning Tehran that it was not following the spirit

DPA, 18th JULY, 2017- President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has called for a “Day of Rage” as 50 Palestinians were wounded in overnight clashes with Israeli police near a Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims, the Red Crescent repo

 New Delhi, (Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times), New Delhi -  Angry over being ticked off for using cellphone on duty, an army jawan posted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri sector on Tuesday pumped five bullets into a major, killing him on t

South Korea on Monday offered to hold rare military talks with the North, aiming to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.   

PESHAWAR AFP July17, 2017- A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Pakistan’s northwest Monday, killing two and wounding six others, police said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.  &

 SYDNEY, (The Hindu), July 16, 2017 -    Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Sunday criticised comments by U.S. President Donald Trump on French first lady Brigitte Macron’s appearance.  

The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of a Qatari government news site in May, planting a false story that was used as a pretext for the current crisis between Qatar and several Arab countries, according to a Sunday report by The Washingt

KABUL AFP July17, 2017 -Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than 3,500 injured, the United Nations said Monday.