World

Paris: A group of more than 200 global investors, including banking giant HSBC and French insurer AXA, are following through on a promise to fight climate...

Paris: The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from certain gas projects in the poorest countries in...

Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma has rejected local news reports that his office has started drafting regulations for a state of emergency,...

Beirut: Syria is expected to soon follow in Iraq's footsteps in proclaiming victory against the IS group, whose fighters are either on the run or...

Strasbourg: The EU has hardened its position on Brexit trade talks after "unacceptable" comments by a British minister that risk undermining...

New York: Police on Tuesday filed terror-related charges against a 27-year-old Bangladeshi driver accused of detonating a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his...

Brussels: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) on Tuesday reappointed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general to serve until 2020, as the alliance...

Gaza City: Two Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with authorities in the Hamas-run territory blaming an Israeli strike, but Israel's...

Tehran: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Iran's southeastern province of Kerman on Tuesday, the Iranian seismological centre reported, though minimal...

Copenhagen: Demands from the nationalist Danish People's Party (DF) that Syrian refugees be sent home as soon as possible are threatening to bring down...