KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday disqualified 16 of the 26 candidates seeking to contest the presidential election scheduled on April...
CHENNAI: The controversial Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tirunelveli, around 650 km from Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu,...
PARIS: France on Monday summoned the US ambassador Charles Hammerman Rivkin and sought explanation over media reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA)...
UNITED NATIONS: Arab states at the United Nations have urged Saudi Arabia to reverse its decision to decline temporary membership in the UN Security...
MILAN: An Italian court on Saturday ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years after...
MALE: Presidential elections due to be held in Maldives on Saturday have been postponed after police declared the vote illegal and blocked ballot papers...
WASHINGTON: The 56-year-old Jeh Johnson has been nominated by the US President Barack Obama as the next secretary of Homeland Security.
In a statement, Obama...
