BEIJING - China has said that the UN Security Council has set a detailed criteria for listing and designation of terror outfits and individuals, which it deliberates in an objective, unbiased and professional manner. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang was responding to ...

NEW DELHI - A day after Pulwama attack that killed more than 40 CRPF personnel diplomacy took centre stage as foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale briefed envoys of P5 countries, South Asia, Japan, Germany, South Korea on Pakistan’s role in the Pulwama terror attack. ASEAN envoys have been called on ...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another defeat at the hands of the lawmakers' in the symbolic vote over Brexit. It undermined her pledge to European Union leaders to get the unpopular divorce deal approved, if they grant her concessions. Lawmakers defeated the ...

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has vowed to declare a national emergency in an attempt to fund his US-Mexico border wall without congressional approval. The move will end, for now, a bitter standoff with Congress over his campaign promise. But it will likely spark a new constitutional ...

WASHINGTON – The United States condemns the “heinous” deadly attack on the Indian paramilitary police convoy in the Asian country’s state of Jammu and Kashmir, the White House said. On Thursday, a bomb hit the convoy, going to the Pulwama district, and killed at least 44 officers of ...

NEW DELHI - Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Friday summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood in New Delhi in the aftermath of a suicide bombing in occupied Kashmir. Mahmood was “issued a very strong demarche in connection with the terrorist attack in Pulwama yesterday,” ...

NEW DELHI - Indian government on Friday has blamed Pakistan for Pulwama attack and threatened to isolate it at international level. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said those behind the terror attack would pay a "very heavy price" and had made a "huge mistake". Union Minister Arun Jaitley ...

President Hassan Rouhani has vowed revenge against what he termed the "mercenary group" behind a suicide bombing which killed 27 people in Southeastern Iran and accused the us and Israel of supporting terrorism. The official Irna news agency quoted the Iranian President as saying "we will certainly ...

Iran has blamed the United States and its regional allies for the suicide bombing in Sistan-Baluchestan province that killed twenty seven members of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards. Iranian state TV quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Thursday that the crime will remain a ...

Turkey has reiterated to go ahead with purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system, as an informal deadline for Ankara to respond to a rival US offer expires tomorrow. The assertion came from Chairman of Turkey’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, Volkan Bozkir, during his visit to ...