BERLIN - Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, United States President Barack Obama today (June 19) defended Internet and phone surveillance programmes as...
JAKARTA — Indonesia plans to use cloud-seeding to create rain and extinguish the fires on Sumatra island, an official was reported as saying today (June 19).
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Department of Environment (DOE) has announced an immediate ban against open burning activities in Selangor, Malacca and Johor — three states currently...
LONDON - Britain’s highest court says the families of several soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them.
BERLIN – United States President Barack Obama will use a speech today (June 19) to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear...
LUCKNOW - A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern...
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way the Americans are reaching out to the Taliban...
GENEVA - The Syrian civil war contributed to push the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide...
