International

Algeria's Constitutional Council has extended interim President Abdelkader Bensalah's powers yesterday. The presidential elections scheduled next month have been cancelled by the…

Heavy gunfire has been heard in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, as security forces forcefully moved in to clear a protest camp that has been the central point in the demonstrators' months-long…

British Prime Minister has announced that she would resign as the UK's Conservative leader on June 7 "in the best interests of the country", paving the way for a contest to decide the new…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received congratulatory telephone calls from leaders across the world on the victory in the General election. The leaders include Prime Minister of Sri…

The Sri Lankan government and other political leaders of the island nation have congratulated BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in his…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the convincing victory of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the parliamentary elections

An author from Oman has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for "Celestial Bodies", the story of three sisters of a desert country confronting its slave-owning past and a…

The British government is discussing how to tweak its proposed European Union divorce terms in a last-ditch attempt to get Parliament's backing for Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with…

In Sri Lanka, an opposition party submitted a no confidence motion against the government over Easter Sunday attacks as several programmes were organized to mark one month of the incident…

Indonesia's Joko Widodo has been re-elected as president of the country, beating rival Prabowo Subianto, a retired general. The elections commission has said Widodo and his…