Category: Int’l relations

There has been chaos in the lower house of India’s parliament after an MP used pepper spray to disrupt proceedings.

North and South Korea have held their highest level talks in years, exploring ways to improve their tense relations.

International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says.

China and Taiwan have held their first high-level talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.

An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in the north-east of the country, killing more than 100 people, Algerian media say.

Gunmen on motorbikes have shot dead eight people, including an eight-year-old girl and her father, at a faith healer’s house in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.

Italy has reacted angrily to an Indian decision to try two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen, under an anti-piracy law.

“I came to tell the world I’m an openly gay man,” the defensive lineman told ESPN. “If I work hard, if I make plays – that’s all that should matter.”

Dubai – An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach U.S. maritime borders as a response to the stationing of U.S. vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.

The US is to make changes to the justice system to give greater legal recognition to same-sex marriages.

High-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy in the lab and mice, research suggests.

Spain’s Princess Cristina is being questioned in court in connection with a corruption scandal involving her husband’s business dealings.

Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern French Alps, local officials and firefighters say. 

Germany’s Angela Merkel has said a US official’s apparent insult of the EU’s efforts to mediate in the Ukraine crisis is “totally unacceptable”.

Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings as violent protests continue across the country for a third day.

Italy’s navy has rescued 1,123 people from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours, as clandestine migration from North Africa reaches record levels.

The first formal meeting between the Pakistan government and a Taliban-nominated team has begun in an undisclosed location, local media say.