World

New Delhi: Retail inflation inched up to a 22-month high level of 5.77 per cent in June on increase in food prices including that of key kitchen staples...

Kathmandu: Prime Minister K. P. Oli-led coalition government on Tuesday plunged into a serious crisis after its alliance partner CPN-Maoist Centre withdrew...

Kabul: The senior US commander in Afghanistan will have greater freedom to strike at the Taliban under broad new powers approved last month by President...

Brussels: A new commercial data pact between the European Union and the United States entered into force on Tuesday, ending months of uncertainty over...

Chicago: Singapore is the safest nation to do business, according to global risk management company Pinkerton's new tool to help corporate clients...

Juba: People emerged from makeshift shelters in South Sudan's capital on Tuesday after a ceasefire silenced days of heavy fighting that has destabilised...

Misrata (Libya): Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government have been shelling and carrying out air strikes on the centre of Sirte city in a siege...

Rome/Paris: A humanitarian group said it recovered the bodies of four migrants and rescued around 400 survivors on Tuesday from an overcrowded wooden boat...

Harare: A Zimbabwean preacher leading the biggest protests against President Robert Mugabe in a decade was arrested and charged with inciting public...

Bari (Italy): Twenty people died and dozens were injured on Tuesday when two passenger trains collided at high speed in southern Italy, sending debris...