International

Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed at the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on Tuesday on a three-day visit to Israel. Describing his visit to Israel as a "groundbreaking" one, PM Modi…

U.S.-backed forces in Syria have breached the wall surrounding the Old City of Raqqa as they try to retake the city from the Islamic State group, the US Central Command…

Korea launched a ballistic missile on Tuesday, the South's military said, just days after Seoul's new leader Moon Jae-In and U.S. President Donald Trump focused on the threat from Pyongyang…

China has scrambled naval ships and military jets to “warn off” a US missile destroyer sailing close to an artificial island built by it in the disputed South China Sea…

Arab nations extended a deadline early on Monday for Qatar to respond to their list of demands in a diplomatic crisis roiling the Gulf, saying Kuwait’s emir requested the delay…

China’s ambitious space programme suffered a rare setback on Sunday as its new heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y2 failed to put the country’s largest satellite into orbit. An…

Washington President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries came into effect late Thursday, after the Supreme Court allowed it following a five month…

North Korea on Wednesday threatened to "impose a death penalty" on South Korean ex-president Park Geun-Hye for allegedly plotting to assassinate Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong-Un. North Korea's security ministry and…

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc may be on the verge of becoming Bank of America Corp's largest shareholder, after the bank raised its dividend in the wake of a positive…

US Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta has called for increasing the minimum salary of foreign workers on H-1B visas, the most sought after by Indian IT firms, from the existing $60,000 to at…

Australia's Victoria State Police on Thursday charged Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's financial chief, with multiple sex offences and summoned him to court in July. Pell, a senior representative of…

The Trump administration has set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a “close” family or business tie to the United States.…