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Struggling with tighter budgets from US cuts, UN remains defensive as its efforts in Syria, Libya and Yemen fall short

Says PM Imran made overture for peace with New Delhi

Ivory Coast leader in electricity production is targeting an 11-per cent share of national consumption for renewables

Slump in price of copper has led to fears that Lusaka might struggle to service its existing debt

Attack on military parade is likely to give security hardliners like the Guards more political ammunition

Voters across Switzerland are expected to vote on the 'burqa' issue next year

New Delhi will compete with 30-year-old, thriving Pakistani FM channel which caters to a cross-border audience

Hopes were fading of finding any more survivors three days after the ferry sank

The programme, dubbed 'Modicare', promises health cover worth INR500,000 to every poor family

Severe thunderstorms have hit the North African country since the middle of last week

'#WhyIdidn'tReport? Because I was 18 and didn't want to be defined by someone else's violent criminal act': Whitmer

Referring to a tweet by Trump in which he linked US support for Middle Eastern countries to oil prices

Khan al Ahmar, a Bedouin village in occupied West Bank, is slated for demolition

Strawberry scare continues to spread

Both victims were mauled in separate incidents

Kim agrees for international inspection but does not provide a list of its nuclear weapons or a concrete timeline

Pro-Turkey militants have cautiously accepted a Moscow-Ankara deal to prevent a Russia-backed regime attack on Idlib

Indian sailor has been stranded in Indian Ocean while competing in the Golden Globe Race

Second Swiss canton to vote to prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces

The Muslim-majority nation has become a theater of rivalry between its traditional partner, India, and China

Female foreign ministers meeting held for the first summit of its kind

Rouhani accuses US-backed Gulf Arab states of providing support for anti-government ethnic Arab groups

US immigrants who get public benefits like food stamps or housing vouchers could be denied green cards

Rail link is a multi-billion dollar project that critics assert gives away part of Hong Kong's territory to Beijing

The shooting killed 25 people, almost half of them members of the country's Revolutionary guards

The US administration holds that government change in Tehran is not US policy

United States and European Union express deep concern over Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen's actions

Catholics recognise pope as head of church, while China's officially atheist government does not recognise the pope

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blames Iran's pro-US rivals for the recent attacks

Five priests from Kerala are recently arrested after sexual assault allegations surfaced against them

Event organisers cite political pressure reason behind snub

Proposals to raise the state pension age to 60 for women and 65 for men has led to a number of protests

Announcement has come a day after China called on the United States to withdraw the sanctions or bear the consequences

It has been a century marked by your bearing numerous trials and suffering; martyrdom, says Pope Francis

Three of the attackers have died at the scene while a fourth has been arrested and later succumbed to his wounds

More than 3,000 cholera cases have been recorded in the states of Yobe and Borno

Troops cordon off areas, launch door-to-door searches

Beijing defends arms trade with Moscow, says it is 'a normal act of cooperation'

After the British foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, shows his concern

'Women are key to finding solutions to the political, economic and social challenges facing our societies'

The pontiff will spend two days in predominantly Catholic Lithuania before moving on to Latvia and then Estonia

Divers were searching for survivors in the sunken wreck of an overcrowded ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria

'Kabul determined to participate in Moscow meeting'

Catholic Church is facing sexual abuse scandals in the United States, Chile, Australia, Germany and other countries

Most were rescued by the Lebanese army but at least one child drowned

The family also shows gratitude to King Norodom Sihamoni for showing compassion

Chinese embassy terms 'news' baseless, distorted

New Delhi had put pressure on Dassault to choose Reliance, former French president claims

A wave of violence linked to drug cartels has led to missing persons in the country rising to more than 36,000

Current predictions are that humans will reach Mars in the coming decades