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Last year, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi was the chief guest at the Vijayadashmi function...

By Seema Hakhu KachruHouston, Sep 22 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a "special interaction" with a 17-member delegation of Kashmiri Pandits here and assured them of "building a new Kashmir" which would be for everyone.The delegatio...

BJP president kicks off campaign for Maharashtra Assembly election with seminar on withdrawal of Article 370...

Omar Ayub leaves for Tokyo to attend LNG Producer-Consumer Conference 2019 ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub here on Sunday left for Tokyo to attend the Liquefied Natural Gas LNG) Producer-Consumer Conference 2019 on the invitation of Japane...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's national currency, the rial, has kept its value against other currencies, signaling strength in the face of the new rounds of US sanctions against Tehran which were announced on Friday....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Several members of the al-Shabaab and Daesh terrorist groups have been arrested in Ethiopia as they prepared to carry out attacks, the national intelligence agency said Saturday....

TEHRAN (FNA)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed the US administration's plans to accelerate arms sales and send additional forces to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as bypassing Congress' intent....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Behnam Ehsanpour and Hassan Yazdani defeated their rivals in the 2019 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship and advanced to the semifinals of the event....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey has finished preparations for a military operation in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a news conference on Saturday ahead of his departure to New York....

Youth leaders at UN demand 'bold' climate change action UNITED NATIONS: Students and young activists from around the world on Saturday challenged world leaders heading to UN Headquarters in New York next week for high-level climate talks, demandin...

Lithuanian SoapBox Race 2019 held in KaunasPeople attend Balloon's Day Parade of 2019 Brussels Comic Strip FestivalSivrihisar Airshow 2019 kicks off in TurkeyAerial view of Nanning, S China's GuangxiMid-Autumn Festival celebrated across ChinaGiant...

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- China on Sunday published a white paper on its progress in the field of human rights over the past 70 years....

JOHOR BARU, Sept 22 — A former private secretary to a member of parliament pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court here today to seven counts of cheating, involving RM39,450, last year. S. Saswin Nair, 27, who was formerly private secretary...

The stage of the Cologne Philharmonie is spacious, but for this concert it was filled to nearly bursting capacity with 175 musicians: 105 of them current members of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany (BJO), aged 14 to 19, and the other 70 former memb...

White City is a the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tel Aviv boasting around 4,000 residential buildings built in the 1930s and 40s by mostly Jewish architects who were often inspired by Bauhaus architecture — or indeed were progenitors of the movemen...

Israel Today chief Aviel Schneider visits the Temple Mount to find out just how tense the situation really is....

Stamp commemorates 25 years of established diplomatic relations between the Jewish state and Holy See...

The celebrations will commence with a cycling rally on September 29 to spread awareness about the Gandhian philosophy of simplicity and sustainability, officials said...

A view of Israel's recent contentious election from Christian supporters abroad...

Likud MK Ze'ev Elkin has invited Blue and White Leader Benny Gantz to meet up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and negotiate the establishment of a national unity governemnt. "This is an issue that Gantz and Netanyahu should talk about,"...

Rosh Ha'ayin resident suspected of setting ark in Beilinson Hospital synagogue on fire, in addition to 2 other cases of synagogue arson....

Nangangamba ang mga magulang na nakatira malapit sa mga ilog na posibleng tamaan ng polio ang kanilang mga anak....

China on Sunday published a white paper on its progress in the field of human rights over the past 7...

The government earnestly hopes the society will return to calm, replace confrontation with sincere d...

A new survey published on Thursday revealed that fewer women in Germany are opting for the birth control pill as a method of contraception. The study reveals that the condom has almost caught up with the pill as the country's most preferred method of ...

On Friday, millions of people are taking to the streets across the world as part of what's been dubbed as the Global Climate Strike, a weeklong protest initiated by Fridays for Future. Organizers are calling for an end to fossil fuels and want governm...

Vanesca Barbosa holds up a map of the Palestina neighborhood of Aracaju, the state capital of Sergipe, in northeastern Brazil. The health department official says she and her team will visit each site marked with a red dot. These mark spots where the Egyp...

The honour for Boycott has attracted great attention...

India is likely to allow some US dairy imports, the official said...

While Ranchi will host 100 pujas, Jamshedpur will host 320 pujas this year....

The Union home minister said that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir would not have existed had Nehru not declared untimely ceasefire with the neighbouring country...

Water-harvesting apparatus that was part of a film set has turned into a major source of drinking water at Sikarpur...

The house is up for sale because of the dwindling number of residents and the ever-rising cost of upkeep...

The Islamic republic has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums since 1981, with clerics arguing they must be protected from the masculine atmosphere and sight of semi-clad men....

The Election Commission on Saturday had announced polling for 11 Assembly seats in the state mostly belonging to MLAs who had won the Lok Sabha elections and resigned as members of state assembly will be held on October 21....

Iranian Navy Chief Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said on Sunday that the country is ready to defend its marine borders and would deliver a...

Trump, who as a Republican presidential candidate in 2016 promised to be India's best friend, is flying to Houston only to attend the...