Ms. Rice is expected to hold important talks with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over a host of issues. Mr. Sharif’s proposed trip to the U.S. in October will also be part of the talks. Ms. Rice would also meet army chief General Raheel Sharif to discuss defence t ....

Death toll in massive explosions in a warehouse in China’s major port city of Tianjin continued to rise nearly three weeks after the country’s worst industrial disaster and mounted to 150 today even as 23 people still remained missing. The dead include 92 fir ....

Department officials said the redacted information was classified in preparation for the public release of the emails and not identified as classified at the time Ms. Clinton sent or received the messages. All the censored material in the latest group of emails is class ....

Mullah Omar is reported to have died at a hospital in Karachi two years ago. However, till date the Pakistani authorities have strongly refuted reports of direct links between ISI and Mullah Omar. The U.S. too has insisted that it has no such evidence in this regard. ....

On August 17, the island-nation went to the parliamentary polls and the United National Party (UNP) emerged as the single largest party with 106 seats. On August 21, the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Prime Minister and the same day, the UNP and the Sri ....

Following his inclusion in the ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ list, Aziz Haqqani comes under the ambit of U.S. sanctions, which prohibits any U.S. national from maintaining any relationship with him and seizure of all his assets, if any, in the U.S. ....

Malik Samarawickrama, UNP chairman, told The Hindu, that an agreement had been reached between his party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) on the issue. It had been decided to take the Parliament nod in view of the legal stipulation on the size of the Cabinet. A ....

The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after the shooting. Flanagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital, police said. The journalists who were killed were reporter Alison Parker, 24, an ....

The investigation began after at least one civilian Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst told the authorities that he had evidence that officials at U.S. Central Command – the military headquarters overseeing the U.S. bombing campaign and other efforts agains ....

On the findings and recommendations of a report to be submitted by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka, Nisha Biswal, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, said her government would work together w ....