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The CA-II election in Nepal was held successfully, gathering many accolades within the country and among the international community as well.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh has condemned suicide bombings as grave crimes, reiterating his stance in strong language.

Caroline Kennedy was just 20 years old when she accompanied her uncle, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, to Hiroshima, site of the first U.S. bomb attack that killed 140,000 people on August 6, 1945.

Fifteen people who had been heading to a wedding in Yemen have been killed in an air strike. Local media reported that a drone attack had  been responsible, and the party-goers had been hit instead of an Al-Qaeda convoy.

Quick. What comes to mind when you dream about retirement?

A lawyer for the jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down former al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has fled the country because of safety fears, a colleague and relatives said.

The Iranian foreign ministry has dismissed President Shimon Peres’s offer to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, AFP reported Tuesday.

Last month, the Russian government had high level talks with the Japanese, South Korean, Vietnamese, Egyptian and Serb governments, which indicate actual and potential gains, without seeming to lose anything.

Civil society groups promote the government’s plans and attack its opponents – raising doubts over their independence.

I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay, said former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament on Monday and called a snap election, but anti-government protest leaders pressed ahead with mass demonstrations seeking to install an unelected body to run the country.

The test flight of China’s first stealth drone, in November 2013, makes China leap from drones to combat drones.

Even cynics must admit that the time comes in international relations when long frozen situations suddenly thaw causing positive change for international peace and security.

Some babies diagnosed with and treated for a bone marrow failure disorder, called Diamond Blackfan Anemia, may actually be affected by a very rare anemia syndrome that has a different disease course and treatment, say scientists from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer…

The family of the late President Nelson Mandela say they are humbled by the support they have received from President Jacob Zuma, the medical team that attended to Madiba and messages from all people in South Africa and abroad.

When Bengal was colonized by the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, it was the richest jewel on the British crown.

The European Parliament is planning to hold a video conference with fugitive NSA analyst, Edward Snowden, concerning the US spying on European citizens, a source in the Assembly told RIA Novosti on Friday.

This allegation about Turkey having changed its past position on the ongoing crisis in Syria is based on the new approach that the Turkish government has taken to the Syrian government the most important highlights of which include:

A funeral cortege bearing Nelson Mandela’s body will travel through the streets of Pretoria daily on three days before his burial next Sunday, the South African government says.

US Vice-President Joe Biden concluded his Asia tour in South Korea on Friday following earlier meetings in Japan and China. Biden’s trip coincided with a moment of significant regional tension following China’s declaration last week of a new “Air Defense…

The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.

Ukraine’s three previous post-Soviet presidents have given their support to mass anti-government protesters.

A tiger that is believed to have killed three villagers in the past week in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has been caught, a senior official said.

The US remains “deeply concerned” about China’s new air defence identification zone, Vice-President Joe Biden has told Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.

The US has called for concerted effort at dialogue to bring the two major political parties of Bangladesh close together to find a way out for holding free, fair and peaceful elections there.

As we approach the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (on January 11, 2014), it remains profoundly unacceptable that, of the remaining 164 prisoners, 84 were cleared for release…