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New Delhi: Hamid Nehal Ansari, who returned to India after being held in a Pakistani jail for illegally crossing over from Afghanistan six years ago, told External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj that

WASHINGTON: The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing any

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of “space command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations. The command will be

United Nations:Outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has come under heavy criticism from Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN Riyad Mansour for her hostility towards the Palestinian people. Haley,

SANAA: Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeida was calm as a ceasefire took effect and a team including members of the warring sides prepared to monitor the truce agreed at talks in Sweden.

ISLAMABAD: United States diplomats and Taliban representatives met in the United Arab Emirates for talks facilitated by Pakistan on finding a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan. The meeting in Abu

Beijing: President Xi Jinping vowed to push ahead with China’s “reform and opening up” but warned that no one could “dictate” what it did, as the Communist Party celebrated the policy’s 40th

RAMALLAH: The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority appealed for $350 million in aid for Palestinians next year, saying much more was needed but they had to be realistic after a year

Ramallah: An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian teenage boy to 35 years in prison on the allegation of carrying out a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank. The Ofer military

Turkey may launch a new military operation in northern Syria at any moment, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding US President Donald Trump had given a positive response to Turkey’s plans. Erdogan’s