New Delhi--Indian lawmakers approved long-awaited legislation Thursday to open up the country's insurance sector to foreign companies, becoming the first major economic reform...
New Delhi--Indian lawmakers approved long-awaited legislation Thursday to open up the country's insurance sector to foreign companies, becoming the first major economic reform...
United Nations, United States--UN Security Council diplomats are drafting a resolution to shore up a regional force fighting Boko Haram with financial backing...
Washington--US Secretary of State John Kerry left Thursday for a key economic conference in Egypt, followed by further talks in Switzerland on Iran's...
Villa Castelli, Argentina--An Argentine judge was to start taking testimony Thursday as five French gendarmes flew in to investigate the helicopter crash that...
Fishkhabur, Iraq--Iraq's first Christian-only brigade of regular forces graduated Thursday to help retake the community's towns and villages from the Islamic State group....
Riyadh--Talks aimed at pulling Yemen out of crisis are open to the Shiite Huthi militia which seized power in Sanaa last month, Qatar's...
Lagos--Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua has lodged an appeal against a court ruling that he should testify about a fatal building collapse at his...
Bogota--Eight people were hurt in a bomb attack against a police convoy in Bogota on Thursday, authorities in Colombia said. Five officers and...
Beirut--More than 20 human rights groups issued a joint plea Thursday for the international community to take responsibility for suffering civilians as Syria's...
Washington--German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday criticized Republican senators for sending a letter to Iran over the nuclear talks, fearing that the...
Paris--The leader of Tibet's exiled government on Thursday compared China to the regimes of North Korea and apartheid South Africa when it came...
Dhaka--Five workers were confirmed dead and dozens more are feared trapped after the roof of a half-built cement factory collapsed in southern Bangladesh...
Istanbul--The body of a young German woman killed in Syria fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State (IS) group was on Thursday...
Albu Ajil, Iraq--Thousands of Iraqi troops and militiamen laid siege to jihadist fighters holed up in Tikrit on Thursday, wary of rushing into...
Kiev--The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian rebels is largely being observed but is still on "thin ice," an OSCE...
Riyadh--The beheading of a gang leader in Saudi Arabia on Thursday raised the number of executions carried out this year to 44, already...
Moscow--Russian rescue workers on Thursday combed through the incinerated rubble of a shopping mall for the bodies of 25 people still missing a...
Tehran--Around 200 Assyrian Christians protested outside the UN building in Iran's capital Thursday to demand action to halt the Islamic State jihadist group's...
