China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in his regular media briefing that in response to a request from the Nepali side, “the Chinese government decided to supply Nepal with a certain amount of emergency fuel assistance so as to help Nepal to tide o ....

The decision allowing couples to have two children was taken by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) on Thursday. The policy change is an advance over the 2013 ruling, which allowed couples, where one of the parents was a single child, to have two children. Pressure ....

The New York Times report details how CIA’s general counsel Stephen Preston, National Security Council’s legal adviser Mary DeRosa, Pentagon’s general counsel Jeh Johnson and Joint Chiefs of Staff legal adviser then-Rear Admiral James Crawford worked i ....

 Republicans rallied behind Rep. Paul Ryan to elect him to the powerful post of House speaker on Thursday as the splintered party turned to the youthful but battle-tested lawmaker to mend its self-inflicted wounds and craft a conservative message to woo voters in next ....

Washington still waits to hear if Tehran will attend the next round of discussions, expected to start Thursday and continue till Friday in Vienna. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and several top European and Arab diplomats will b ....

FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said in comments carried by Russian news agencies that a concentration of Taliban fighters, some of whom had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, at Afghanistan’s northern border make the risk of invasion tangible. Afg ....

“In the 1990s, the freedom struggle began in Kashmir. At that time Lashkar-e-Taiba and 11 or 12 other organisations were formed. We supported them and trained them as they were fighting in Kashmir at the cost of their lives,” Mr. Musharraf said in an intervi ....

President Salva Kiir’s faction in the conflict is also accused of recruiting an irregular tribal force before the outbreak of war in 2013. The report, released late Tuesday, also disputes that there was a coup attempt in December 2013 by former Vice-President R ....

Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist received 327 votes against her opponent’s 214 in the Parliament on Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Onsari Gharti announced. Ceremonial head The President is the ceremonial head in Ne ....

The Senate passed the bill by 74-21 votes and now the bill heads for reconciliation with the earlier-passed House cyber security bill. The proponents of the bill said will help prevent cyber attacks by facilitating a common awareness in the cyber realm. “I have ....