Geneva, Jun 29 :  Member states of the United Nations migration agency today rejected President Donald Trump's nominee for director general, repudiating historic American control of the organisation. The International...

Brussels, Jun 29:  European Union leaders agreed at a summit today to extend punishing economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine for a further six months, the bloc...

Beirut, Jun 28 :  A barrage of Russian strikes on rebel-held towns in southern Syria killed 22 civilians today, the bloodiest day yet of the government's offensive in the strategic...

Taipei, Jun 25 : Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen called on the international community to "constrain" China by standing up for freedoms, casting her island's giant neighbour as a global threat to...

Beirut, Jun 24 : Russia bombed rebel-held parts of southern Syria for the first time since brokering a ceasefire there nearly a year ago, a monitor group has said,  as allied...

Riyadh, Jun 24 :  Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades today as the kingdom overturned the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic...

Addis Ababa, Jun 23 : Scores of people were hurt in a grenade blast at new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's first mass rally in the capital that sent crowds...

Sochi, Jun 23 : Germany can ill afford another slip-up when they take on Sweden at the World Cup today, as the defending champions attempt to follow Brazil's lead by belatedly...

Brussels, Jun 22 :  The European Union slapped revenge tariffs on iconic US products including bourbon, jeans and motorcycles today in its opening salvo in a trade war with President...

Jerusalem, Jun 21:  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara was charged today with fraud and breach of trust after a long police probe into allegations she falsified household expenses,...