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The second phase of the naval operation authorizes boarding, search, seizure and diversion of ships found to be used for human trafficking.

The Islamic State group is not present in the areas where the fighting is underway.

Rwanda’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favour of changing the constitution in the case submitted by the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, vs the Government of Rwanda, regarding the non-lifting of Presidential Term Limits from the Constitution.

In 1901, five years after his death, a committee in Norway picked Switzerland’s Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, and Frederic Passy, the French economist who believed free trade among nations promoted peace, as the first recipients of the awards.

Around 2 million refugees from Syria are now in Turkey and tens of thousands more have entered the European Union via Greece this year, overwhelming coast guard and reception facilities. “According to Turkish estimates another three million potential refugees may come from...

The Syrian push on the ground is the first time Mr Assad’s forces have co-ordinated with the Russian airforce in an attempt to seize lost territory from opposition forces, ushering in a few of the fiercest fighting in months in the civil war, which has now lasted four and a...

Apart from Obama, Modi also met his British counterpart David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and leaders of Palestine and Mexico, among others.

The death toll from a powerful typhoon in southern China has reached 20 people, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.

LONDON-Gold prices were lower on the London spot market Thursday, after stronger-than-expected US employment data supported the likelihood of a USA interest rate rise before year-end.

Islamist al-Shabaab gunmen ambushed and killed the nephew of Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, Somalia’s president, in Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and the rebels said.

Members of Delhi’s legislative assembly may soon get a four-fold hike in their salary, as reported by NDTV.

The embattled Hung Hsiu-chu gives a press conference, October 7.

As part of bolstering Europe’s borders, Frontex – the EU’s border security agency – is almost doubling staff deployed in and around Greece and Italy, both primary entry points for migrants looking to enter the EU.

Australia’s highest court will begin considering on Wednesday whether the policy of sending asylum seekers to the tiny South Pacific nation of Nauru for long-term detention is in breach of the constitution, a major challenge to the controversial policy.

Over 1,400 pilgrims died in a stampede inside a tunnel in 1990 after a ventilation system broke down.