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Vietnamese marine police questions suspected hijackers of Malaysian tanker
Vietnam's marine police said on Saturday that they were questioning eight foreigners suspected of being the escaped pirates who commandeered a Malaysian-flagged tanker in the South China Sea for a week.
Despite obstacles, chances grow for final Iran nuclear deal
6 world powers are likely to sign a nuclear treaty with Iran which is likely to have major ramifications for global geopolitics. Although there is no consensus but the deal is politically important for both the US and Iran and hence, is likely to be signe...
Hillary Clinton: US must face 'hard truths' about guns, race
Clinton had campaigned in Charleston earlier on Thursday, and said she learned of the attack after she landed in Las Vegas. As did President Barack Obama earlier in the day, Clinton said this latest incident involving the killing of several people require...
AgustaWestland implicated in Swedish corruption probe
Sweden's anti-corruption authorities said that they had launched an inquiry into the Swedish Maritime Administration's purchase of helicopters from AgustaWestland.
Woman deemed world's oldest person dies at the age of 116 in US
The Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group considered Talley to be the world's oldest person, based on available records, followed by Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York.
Pakistan close to ink deal with Russia for Mi-35 attack choppers
The deal is believed to be signed after the conclusion of Army chief General Raheel Sharif's three-day visit to Moscow. An agreement would be signed 'very soon', the Dawn quoted a defence official as saying.
Sweden mulls new laws banning jihad combat, travel
"It is completely unacceptable that Swedish citizens are travelling to (join) IS, financing the organisation, or fighting for it," Justice Minister Morgan Johansson and Interior Minister Anders Ygeman wrote in a joint article in leading newspaper Dagens N...
Swaraj to preside over celebrations at the first International Yoga Day; not to be overshadowed by domestic controversy
Nearly two billion people across 192 nations would have participated in commemorating the first International Yoga Day by the end of June 21.
China says to end construction of islands in disputed South China Sea
"The land reclamation project of China's construction on some stationed islands and reefs of the Nansha Islands, as planned, will be completed very soon," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in Beijing.
PM Modi making India-Pakistan peace talks difficult, says Pervez Musharraf
Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, the former Pakistan president and Army chief cautioned India against what he calls "similar adventurism".
India's Health & Biopharma sector deserve more attention, says experts
India's health and biopharma sector deserves better attention from the government to help realise its full potential and provide much cheaper health care and medicine to millions of patients, leading industry experts and academicians have said.
India sees 'strongest' growth in first quarter of 2015: OECD
Indian economy saw the "strongest growth" in the first quarter of 2015 among large economies, including China, the US, Germany and Canada, according to Paris-based think tank OECD.
Chinese Communist Party official commits suicide
An official from northwest China's Qinghai Province allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday, less than a year after he was warned by the ruling Communist party for "disciplinary violations".
US Army takes down its website after hackers post messages
A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack and said it left messages on the US Army website.
Nepal's major parties agree to adopt federal system
Nepal's four major political parties on Monday agreed to adopt a federal system in the country with eight provinces.
Turkey's ruling AKP party likely to struggle forming new government
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party won around 41 per cent of the votes in Sunday's election and was projected to take 258 seats — 18 below the minimum required to rule alone.