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United States President Barack Obama would deliver his last State of the Union Address on January 12 to highlight the “remarkable” achievements of his presidency such as the restoration of…

If anger could melt ice, Mount Everest would be standing bare and brown today — so angry are the people of Nepal with India. The four-month-old blockade of its border…

As tensions in West Asia and Ukraine rose in recent years, Turkey moved to jointly manufacture a sophisticated missile defence system. The $3.4 billion plan would have given Turkey’s military…

The Chinese capital Beijing was on Friday enveloped by this year’s worst air pollution with the smog level crossing the most hazardous mark, two days after a red alert for…

When Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif met in Paris less than a month ago, few could imagine that the outcome of talks — that lasted less than three…

Syria is ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help it form a national unity government, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said…

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia has picked up a new controversy doubting the number of casualties in the country’s Liberation War against Pakistan. “There is a debate about…

Settling down in the city of Heidelberg, the parents comforted their four children as the reality of what they had just endured struck like a thunderclap and the tears flowed…

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump continues with his characteristic rhetoric, which is a mix of diatribe against Muslims and immigrants, and contempt for opponents and media, but Texas Senator Ted Cruz…

The United States will place a breed of lion found in India and Africa in the endangered species list in a bid to curb the dramatic decline of their population.…

Donald Trump on Monday accused Hillary Clinton of lying when she said the Islamic State (IS) group used videos of his comments about Muslims to recruit militants. The Republican presidential…

In a significant development, Nepal government has decided to amend the new Constitution to address two key demands of agitating Madhesis regarding proportional representation and constituency delimitation, a move which…