The United Nations estimates almost three million survivors of twin earthquakes in April and May — around 10 per cent of the Himalayan nation’s population — need shelter, food and basic medical care, many in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas. Govind ....

“The fundamental reason for the cancellation of talks was that we differed on the interpretation of the Ufa agreement. We never wanted to broaden the agenda. We wanted the NSAs to speak only on terrorism, and we had many things to discuss on that. But we wanted to ....

At the perfectly choreographed military parade at Tiananmen Square marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, China, for the first time rolled out an array of sophisticated missiles — the core of its nuclear and conventional deterrent — that co ....

As soon as the House met on Thursday morning, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced that Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan had been made the Leader of the Opposition and said no other name had been proposed. A. Amirthalingam of the Tamil United Liberation Fron ....

The images have increased public pressure on reluctant governments in Europe to step up and open their doors to the thousands fleeing war, hunger and economic chaos. In the United Kingdom, where Prime Minister David Cameron has so far refused to budge from his stand of ....

In a statement, Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, Executive Director, CaFFE, termed the PTA more dangerous than emergency laws and said the United National Front for Good Governance, which has formed the new government, consisted of parties that were victims of the law in the p ....

The Turkish coast guard said in a statement that two boats had sunk after separately setting off from Turkey’s Bodrum peninsula for the Greek Aegean island of Kos early on Wednesday. The corpses of 12 migrants, including five children and one woman, were found, ....

In a very brief notice filed yesterday in US District Court, Northern District of California, the woman’s lawyers submitted that “Plaintiff Jane Doe hereby voluntarily dismisses the above-captioned action against Defendant Uber Technologies with prejudice. E ....

The DF-21D is a unique ballistic missile with an anti-ship role. The weapon first acquires a ballistic trajectory and then reenters the atmosphere, attacking its target at a 10 times the speed-of-sound, defeating most known anti-ship defences. Analysts say the missil ....

Mr. Xi made the announced, while speaking at the victory parade being held to commemorate 70th anniversary of the victory against Japan in the World War II. This is part of efforts by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) which operate with annual defence budget o ....