International News Updates

An overwhelming 98.1 per cent of voters approved Egypt's new constitution in a nationwide referendum, widely seen as a vote on a likely presidential bid by army chief Gen Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

The United States has voiced hope that a crisis with India over the arrest of a senior Indian diplomat last month would come to a closure and expressed its wish to get back to business and take bilateral ties forward

British Prime Minister David Cameron has directed his Cabinet Secretary to establish the facts behind claims that Margaret Thatcher's government may have helped Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar in 1984

Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina was on Sunday sworn in for her second straight term as prime minister, a week after her Awami League secured a landslide win in the violence-hit general election boycotted by the opposition as a farce

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a hardliner revered by his countrymen as "Mr Security" and reviled across the Arab world as the "butcher of Sabra and Shatila", died today at the age of 85 after being comatose for eight years

Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on Friday asserted that the charges against her in a US court are "false and baseless" and the stand taken by her and the Indian government in the case will be "vindicated"

In the wake of widespread attacks on Hindus in the country, Bangladesh today decided to set up special tribunals under an anti-terror law to punish the perpetrators of violence aimed at the minority community

At least two people have been killed in clashes between pro-and anti-government supporters across Bangladesh, as five voting centres were set on fire amid the opposition's nonstop blockade two days before the elections

Pervez Musharraf's wife today requested the Pakistan government to lift a foreign travel ban on him even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the embattled former military ruler's fate will be decided by a special court

Bangladesh's capital was today under virtual siege with overnight stoppage of transport services with the rest of the country as main opposition BNP is set to defy a government ban on their protest march tomorrow, escalating tensions afresh

Top leaders of Nepal's vanquished Maoists party today launched a soul searching session on how to recover from a humiliating defeat in the November 19 polls

Washington: The US today said it is reviewing what happened in the case of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested and strip-searched on visa fraud charges, and expressed hope that this "isolated incident" would not derail bilateral ties.

A government school for girls was blown up by militants in Pakistan Sunday, media reported

Islamabad: Agitated over a sluggish investigation process, hundreds of parents and students protested outside the Peshawar school where terrorists killed over 140 students and teachers last December, a media report said Sunday. The protesters at the Army Public School Saturday wanted authorities to look into the slow investigation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Taliban(TTP) attack on the school […]

Bogota: The Colombian attorney general’s office found in the southwestern part of the country a mass grave with the remains of some 62 people who might have been victims of paramilitary groups, media reported Saturday. The discovery was made in a rural area of Olaya Herrera municipality in Nariño province, bordering on Ecuador, Attorney General […]