Alexander Smirnov, the deputy general director of Metrojet, said the cause of the crash “could only have been an external impact on the plane” in the air. When pressed for an explanation about what could have caused this impact, Mr. Smirnov insisted that ....

The dignitaries, however, agreed on two expected agreements — cooperation in new and renewable energy, and renewal of the cultural exchange programme 2015-18. Mr. Ansari said the energy pact would serve the commitments India and Indonesia had made to reduce car ....

Hundreds of people have died in the last few years in Xinjiang unrest blamed by the government on Islamist militants. Rights groups and exiles say controls on the religion and culture of the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home are more to blame for the viol ....

The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black boxes recovered from the Airbus A321 which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday killing all 224 people on board. A civil aviation source said Egyptian in ....

The government had scratched the honorary titles, granted for public service, in 1986 as anachronisms. But former Prime Minister Tony Abbott revived them a year ago during his time in office and was widely ridiculed for making Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’ ....

Faisal Arefin Dipan (43) was killed in his third-floor office in central Dhaka locality of Shabagh, very near the venue of months of demonstrations demanding capital punishment for Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and other fundamentalists who had collaborated with Pakistani tro ....

 A Russian aircraft carrying more than 220 people crashed on Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula more than 20 minutes after takeoff from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists. Egyptian military and security officials say there are no ....

State-run TRT television reports that with more than 97 per cent of the votes counted, the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has won just above 49 per cent, which would comfortably restore its ruling majority. “Today is the day of victory but it is ....

Publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan was hacked to death in his office, while in a separate attack publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul and writers Ranadipam Basu and Tarek Rahim were grievously wounded. In an e-mail sent to some media outlets, the militants said: &ldqu ....

The third Republican debate, far from narrowing the race that has remained volatile and uncertain for months now, threw it wide open as trailing aspirants, including Mr. Rubio, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, made a forceful and possibly s ....