The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process.
The resolution gives a UN blessing...
In its first resolution to focus on the politics of ending Syria’s five-year-long war, the Security Council gave the United Nations an enhanced role...
Current Affairs: The European Parliament has called upon the European Union (EU) and its member states to launch “targeted sanctions” against “certain members” of...
Current Affairs: South Africa's president has appointed the Pravin Gordhan as his third finance minister within a week.
He replaces the little-known David van Rooyen...
Current Affairs: Turkey has imposed a fine of TRY 150,000 ($50,700) on Twitter for allowing the publication of content deemed to justify terror.
The Information...
Mexican health authorities issued the first permit allowing four individuals to grow and smoke their own marijuana.
The Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to...
Current Affairs: Gambia’s President has declared his country an Islamic republic. Mr. Jammeh made the declaration at a political rally in the coastal village...
The United Nations Security Council adopted a historic resolution on youth, peace and security that urges greater representation by young men and women in...
Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook after it was imposed for security reasons few days ago.
The government banned Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber blocked last...
Mexico's government announced $23 billion in investments to modernize its refineries to slash greenhouse gas emissions produced by oil-processing facilities and gasoline.
President Enrique Pena...
Russian military had launched strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean.
Russian strikes had been aimed at "two...
Facebook has lifted a ban that blocked material from Tsu.co, a small rival challenging the world's largest social network's financial dependence on free content...
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution, calling on all countries to coordinate efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS)...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the establishment of 15-member High-Level Panel on health technology innovation and access, in an effort to escalate...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker launched an emergency trust fund for providing stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in...
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies formally launched an initiative that will make financial services accessible to more micro, small and medium-enterprises (MSMEs).
Launched...
Jioji Konrote was sworn in to become Fiji's fifth president since the Pacific island country's independence in 1970.
Konrote took his oath of office at...
Agreement on Radio Spectrum has been reached at the United Nations World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva on the allocation of radiofrequency spectrum to allow...
Maldives lifted a state of emergency declared by the president earlier this month, saying security had improved after the authorities detained individuals and seized...
UNESCO has rejected Kosovo’s bid for membership yesterday after Kosovo failed to receive the support of two-thirds of the body’s member nations.
Out of 142...
Facebook, the 11-year-old social media company founded by Mark Zuckerberg surpassed the $300-billion mark in market capitalisation.
Facebook became the seventh most valuable firm in...
World Health Organization has announced that Sierra Leone is free of the Ebola virus.
West African nation’s epidemic was declared over yesterday at a ceremony...
The Maldives vice president Ahmed Adeeb is impeached over his alleged role in a blast on the President Abdulla Yameen's speedboat.
Yameen and First Lady were...
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced his resignation over a fire tragedy that has killed 32 people and injured more than 180 others.
He resigned...
Maldives government has declared a state of emergency for a period of 30 days citing threat to national security.
The declaration by President Abdulla Yameen...
Former comedian Jimmy Morales has been elected as Guatemala President. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal reported that Morales got about 72 percent of the votes.
The...
The WTO is an international intergovernmental organization dealing with the formulation and implementation of international trade rules. It also deals with the arbitration of...
The U.S.-Cuba Business Council held a meeting to forge links between the business sectors of both countries and identify investment opportunities.
The meeting of the...
Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a stunning victory, by winning parliamentary majority in latest polls.
The party, founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared an emergency in areas overwhelmed by heavy rain that has caused widespread flooding and multiple deaths.
Iraq was...
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that Jamaica completed the conversion of its research reactor to low enriched uranium this month,...
According to the United Nations World Tourism Barometer, the number of tourists travelling the world during the first eight months of this year reached...
China said that it will continue boycotting proceedings at an international arbitration court over a territorial dispute with the Philippines.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration...
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution, calling for ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States...
US Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) bill that is being considered a critical step forward in addressing cyber threats and ensuring...
Communist leader Vidya Devi Bhandari was elected as Nepal's first woman President by the parliament, weeks after it adopted a new landmark Constitution that...
The Islamic State jihadist group executed three people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them...
Sartaj Aziz was removed from the post of National Security Advisor of Pakistan. In his place, Retired Lieutenant General Nasser Khan Janjua has been...
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cyber defence cooperation was signed on Monday (12 October 2015) between NATO, represented by Assistant Secretary General...
U.S. and Russian military officials signed a memorandum of understanding that includes steps their pilots should take to avoid an inadvertent clash over Syria...
Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government resoundingly ending Conservative Stephen Harper's near-decade in office.
The Liberals were elected or were leading in...
In Philippines, Typhoon Koppu has slammed into the main island of Luzon, destroying homes and displacing around 10,000 people. Disaster management officials warned of...
Myanmar has signed a peace deal formally called the Nationwide Cease-fire Agreement,
with armed rebel groups. The government has signed a ceasefire deal with eight...
In one round of voting the United Nations General Assembly elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay to serve as non-permanent members on the...
China has reopened China-Nepal Jilong border that had been closed since the spring after being damaged during an earthquake.
More than 400 trucks loaded with...
According to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures, opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is decreased 19 per cent in 2015, compared to the previous...
UNHCR has warned that Europe’s 'narrow, exclusion-focused policies' have clearly failed. It urged the European Union to make certain that upcoming policy discussions...
The World Bank announced that extreme poverty is likely to fall to below 10% this year, “giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long sustained reduction...
The European migrant crisis arose through the rising number of refugees, and migrants coming to the European Union, across the Mediterranean Sea or Southeast...
A new anti-slavery law in Mauritania has recently been adopted by the Mauritanian National Assembly. Mauritania became the last country to abolish slavery 34...
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated construction work on a China-backed $10 billion nuclear power project near Karachi to add 1,100 MW to the...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi approved a new anti-terrorism law.
The new law, which came weeks after President Sisi vowed harsher laws following the assassination...
