United Nations, Jan 5 (IANS) United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, but declined to comment on the terror attack at an Indian Air…
(AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader) Tehran, Jan 4 (AFP) Iran’s supreme leader said today the United States was seeking to influence next month’s elections in the Islamic republic but said such efforts would…
Tokyo, Jan 4 (IANS) Japan has expressed grave concern over China carrying out a test flight to a runway on an island in a disputed part of the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida…
Islamabad, Jan 4 (IANS) The Pakistani government has planned to build a motorway from its Peshawar city to Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the media reported. The four-lane road via Jalalabad and Torkham covers 265 km and…
Kabul, Jan 4 (IANS) Gunshots continued to ring out Monday at the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif city that a group of armed men attacked a day before, an official said. Thw attackers had taken…
London, Jan 4 (IANS) British Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood on Sunday expressed “disappointment” at the mass executions in Saudi Arabia, saying Britain will continue to raise these cases with the Saudi authorities….
Riyadh, Jan 4 (IANS) Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister announced on Saturday to cut diplomatic ties with Iran and asked all Iranian diplomats to leave within 48 hours, local media reported. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir…
Tehran, Jan 3 (IANS) Iran police have arrested 40 protesters who raided and torched the Saudi embassy in Tehran, a senior official said on Sunday. The judiciary has issued an order to identify and arrest…
Tehran, Jan 3 (IANS) Angry protesters against the execution of a Shia leader by Saudi Arabia set fire parts of the Saudi consulate in Iran’s northeastern religious city of Mashhad on Saturday, Tabnak news website…
London, Jan 2 (IANS) The Iranian government and religious leaders across the Middle East have condemned Saudi Arabias execution of a prominent Shia cleric along with 46 others and warned of repercussions that could bring…
Seoul, Jan 2 (IANS) South Koreans took to the streets Saturday to protest a recent agreement between Seoul and Japan to resolve the issue of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during…
Tripoli, Jan 1 (IANS/AKI) Muammar Gaddafi tried to engineer a ‘political’ marriage between his second son and planned heir and one of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s daughters, a former advisor to the late Libyan dictator…
Tehran, Jan 1 (IANS) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered to proceed the country’s missile programme “with high speed and seriously” and expand Iran’s missile capabilities, in response to the US considered sanctions, state…
Washington, Dec 31 (AFP) The United States is preparing sanctions against firms and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates over alleged links to Iran’s ballistic missile program, the Wall Street Journal…
London, Dec 30 (IANS) A top aide to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has died in a car crash, BBC reported on Wednesday. Kim Yang-gon, 73, was part of a high-level delegation from North…
Havana, Dec 29 (IANS) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said a further improvement in ties with Washington depends on the end of the more than 50-year-old US embargo. “The world understands that although the US-Cuba…
Vienna, Dec 29 (AP) A landmark nuclear deal with Tehran moved closer to implementation with US Secretary of State John Kerry announcing that tons of enriched uranium that could potentially be turned to use in…
London, Dec 28 (IANS) A top Afghan militant commander has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin held an unpublicized meeting with Mansour, the current Taliban chief, to discuss possible Russian support against the IS insurgents…
Colombo, Dec 27 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday strongly condemned the “uncivilised behaviour” of fans during a recently held live concert by Latin American pop idol Enrique Iglesias here, saying the incident…
Following is the text of the speech delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Afghan parliament on Friday: Your Excellency President Ghani Your Excellency, Chief Executive Dr. Abdulla Honorable Speaker of Wolesi Jirga and…