REUTERS, 08th MAY, 2017- The Mexican army says its fight against surging opium production that feeds U.S demand is increasingly complicated by the rise of smaller gangs disputing wild, ungoverned lands planted with ever-stronger poppy strains. 

KABUL REUTERS May 7   - The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in an operation led by Afghan special forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday. 

DPA, 08th MAY, 2017- The civil war in South Sudan has forced more than 2 million children to flee their homes, two UN agencies said Monday. Children make up 62 per cent of the more than 1.8 million South Sudanese refugees who have arrived mainly in U

After a tumultuous election campaign filled with scandal and surprises, French voters will decide on Sunday whether a pro-European Union centrist or an anti-EU, anti-immigration far-rightist will lead them for the next five years.   

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 07th MAY, 2017- Legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries heat up again next week when two US appeals courts consider whether it is constitutional.

REUTERS, 07th MAY, 2017- British Prime Minister Theresa May maintained her strong lead in opinion polls ahead of next month’s national election, with one analyst saying she was on course for the kind of huge success Margaret Thatcher enjoyed ov

REUTERS, 07th MAY, 2017  - Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014 in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said on Saturday.  

DPA, 07th MAY, 2017-  Investigators have discovered Nazi memorabilia in German army barracks, adding a dark twist to the Bundeswehr’s ongoing investigation into suspected far-right sympathizers among its ranks.  

Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Friday, the final day of a tumultuous election campaign that has turned the country’s politics upside down.

Washington (dpa) 05th MAY, 2017 - The US House of Representatives narrowly passed healthcare legislation Thursday to replace the seven-year-old “Obamacare” reform, sending the measure to an uncertain future in the Senate.

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 05th MAY, 2017- Kashmir braced for more clashes on Friday morning as the Valley’s joint separatist leadership called for after-prayer protests, a day after a civilian driver was killed and three soldiers injured in an ambush in

Washington (dpa) 05th MAY, 2017 - US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday appeared to have patched up any differences lingering over an abrupt phone call between the two leaders several months ago.  T

REUTERS, 05th MAY, 2017- The European Commission is trying to bully Britain, Brexit minister David Davis said, ratcheting up the rhetoric before a national election in which the ruling Conservatives are asking voters to back them ahead of tough talks

Thousands of soldiers and paramilitaries were Thursday engaged in a huge anti-militant operation in Indian-administered Kashmir, where armed rebels have repeatedly attacked government forces in recent weeks.   

London, (Daily Mail, London), 4 May 2017 -Prince Philip has today revealed he is to step down from all public royal duties at the age of 95 after 70 years of loyal service.   

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 04th MAY, 2017  - Muslim women in Assam who have been divorced using the provision of triple talaq will be provided interim pension by the BJP-led Assam government as per a new policy.  

DAILY MAIL, 04th MAY, 2017- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Moscow-backed plan to set up so-called de-escalation zones inside Syria would “50 percent” solve the six-year conflict, in comments published Thursday.  

 Several explosions at a solvent factory close to the Spanish capital of Madrid have left 15 people injured, according to emergency services.   

ASTANA AFP May3, 2017- Syrian rebels on Wednesday said they were suspending their participation as a latest round of peace talks began in Kazakhstan, with the warring sides set to discuss a plan to create safe zones.

Britain’s Brexit minister David Davis warned Wednesday that it would not be bullied in upcoming negotiations with the EU, and rejected a report that its exit bill could reach 100 billion euros.   

A U.S. antimissile defence system recently installed in South Korea is now operational, a U.S. official said Monday, in the latest sign of an enhanced U.S. response to threats from North Korea. 

DAILY MAIL, 02nd MAY, 2017- Caracas residents blocked streets with trash bags, broken concrete and twisted metal Tuesday to protest the socialist president’s bid to rewrite the constitution amid a deepening political crisis.

by Gregory Viscusi  Bloomberg, May 2, 2017 - French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen used chunks of a speech by defeated centre-right nominee Francois Fillon, word-for-word, during a rally, in what her campaign said was an attempt to lure th

REUTERS, 02nd MAY, 2017- North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces in another

SRINAGAR AFP May1, 2017 - India’s security forces suffered a double blow Monday in disputed Kashmir, with five policemen shot dead in a bank raid and two soldiers killed in an attack along the border with Pakistan.

French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen rallied her supporters at a meeting north of Paris on Monday, denouncing her centrist rival Emmanuel Macron as the candidate of “the system” and high finance.

 (dpa) - A newly developed system that mimics the human uterus may one day help extremely premature babies bridge the gap between their mother’s womb and the outside world.   

Powerful storms that generated flooding and tornadoes across the south-central United States killed at least 12 people at the weekend.  

UTTAH, (Daily Mail, London), 1 May 2017 -   A robotic drill could be the future of surgery and could help cut the time of a routine brain operation from two hours - to two-and-a-half minutes.  

 REUTERS, 01st May, 2017-At least 27 people were injured on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Bangkok on Monday when their Boeing 777 hit an air pocket, the Russian embassy in Thailand said in a statement.