A bruising battle between U.S. President Barack Obama and Democrats in the House of Representatives spilled out into the open on Friday when the President’s centrepiece policy agenda for this year, the quest for unequivocal trade negotiation authority, was dealt ....

Boko Haram extremists have burned down six northeast Nigerian villages and killed 37 people near the insurgents’ Sambisa Forest stronghold, a survivor said on Friday. Ahmed Ajimi, a fighter in the anti-Boko Haram Nigerian Vigilante Group, said many victims of Wedne ....

The southern African country started using foreign currencies like the U.S. dollar and the South African rand in 2009 after the Zimbabwean dollar was ruined by hyper-inflation, which hit 500 billion per cent in 2008. At the height of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis ....

 Sri Lanka has identified agriculture, logistics and textiles as potential areas of “economic engagement” with India, according to Ravi Karunanayake, Finance Minister. Mr. Karunananyake told reporters at an event organised by the Foreign Correspondents&r ....

 Condemning the statement of Pakistan Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, a senior Minister of Bangladesh said his country fought the 1971 Liberation War “on its own” and India stood by it as there was an international consensus. ....

  At least 41 people were killed and eight injured on Thursday in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall that buried six villages in Nepal’s mountainous northeast, the second major disaster to hit the country after the April 25 quake. The landslide hit the vi ....

 India will send a high-level ministerial delegation to the Donors’ Conference in Kathmandu on June 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told his Nepalese counterpart, Sushil Koirala, on the phone on Thursday. Mr. Modi’s participation in the meet, aimed at r ....

Mr. Musharraf, who ruled from 1999 to 2008, claimed India is carrying an aggressive attitude as a pre-planned strategy with the ultimate end game of denuclearising Pakistan. “We do not want to use nuclear capability but if our existence comes under threat, who ....

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The U.S. Secret Service cleared the White House briefing room on Tuesday after a bomb threat was called into local police, prompting an evacuation.   No other areas of the White House were affected, and the briefing room was checked and cleared.   &quo ....