“There are people who even now argue that by providing jobs to the youth, putting up more hospitals and promoting economic development there [in the Northern and Eastern provinces], the ethnic problem will be over. But it is not so,” the 55-year-old leader s ....

They were taking that course of action because the Maldives government has failed to fulfill many of its promises made to ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, Ms. Clooney told reporters in Male, the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago that is a high-end tourist destination ....

Reeling under a reign of terror The east African nation with a population of 6 million is one of the world's poorest It has been marked by repression and fear since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993 Ultimate power has remained largely in the hands of o ....

Riding on a wave of public dissatisfaction over rising cost of living, increasing income disparity, restrictions on free speech and a tide of immigration, the opposition hopes to increase its strength in Parliament from the meagre seven seats it currently holds, all by ....

Asked on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” about entering a Democratic race that features frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Biden said he didn’t know if he was prepared to run following Beau Biden’s death in May to brain cancer. Mr. B ....

In his first State of the Union address to the European Parliament, Mr. Juncker outlined an emergency plan to distribute 160,000 refugees among the 28 EU member states and promised a permanent asylum mechanism to cope with future crises. He appealed to Europeans to r ....

 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that his country will not enter into talks with the United States outside of the nuclear deal with world powers as Washington could use other negotiations to “penetrate” the Islamic Repub ....

The N1TV Internet channel said their employee, widely identified in Hungarian media as Petra Laszlo, has been dismissed because she “behaved unacceptably” at a makeshift gathering point where police take migrants immediately after they enter Hungary near the ....

Police said the first attack on Tuesday night saw gunmen open fire on a van of news channel Geo TV, killing a technician and wounding the driver. The second attack happened on Wednesday morning. Feroz Shah, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, said gunmen on a motor ....

 The man Thai police believe masterminded deadly Bangkok bombing in August fled to Bangladesh the day before the attack and travelled on a Chinese passport, officials said on Wednesday. The man emerged as a key suspect in the August 17 bombing following interrogatio ....