US President Donald Trump has announced that he will roll out a new healthcare plan in the next few months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the establishment of ''Ramat Trump'', a new Golan Height..
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the US considers "a full range of options" to respond to the a..
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will step down from her position at the end of this month for a possib..
Iran on Friday "categorically" rejected the US'' accusations linking Tehran to the attacks on two oil tankers in..
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked Iranian leaders during his Tehran visit to release American captive..
NASA''s Mars 2020 rover, its latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, will include technology to explore ancien..
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a red, white and blue colour scheme for new Air Force One jets.
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov awarded his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the Manas Order of the First Deg..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on a two-day visit during which he will attend the summit of eight-nat..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Indian Prime Minister as a "new kind of leader for the world''s most p..
Kremlin said Moscow has not received any confirmation from Washington regarding US President Donald Trump''s rea..
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that tensions in the Middle East region were caused by the "US economic wa..
Sixteen people were killed and 12 were reported missing after torrential rains caused havoc in China, authoritie..
Afghan forces have captured two detention centres of the Taliban in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces, setting free m..
US President Donald Trump has said that tariffs on Mexican goods "will be reinstated" if Mexico''s Congress does..
US President Donald Trump said that he will move forward with proposed tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese ..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit Japan and South Korea later this month to discuss denucl..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that he will be visiting India later this month to build on "an ..
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Coop..
China on Thursday said it was seriously concerned about the US'' reported plans to sell arms to Taiwan, an issue..
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make a two-day visit to Iran from June 12, amid rising tensions in the P..
French President Emmanuel Macron and outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May launched a commemoration event on Th..
China''s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Thursday granted 5G licenses for commercial u..
Japan and China are planning to cooperate on breeding research for giant pandas by signing a memorandum later th..
The Sri Lankan government has decided to amend laws regarding the circulation of fake news on the social media, ..
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia on Wednesday for a state visit.Xi is expected to join Russian Pre..
In a first, China on Wednesday successfully launched a rocket from a sailing ship into space, showcasing its pro..
Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has called for the immediate removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan to ..
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has revealed that the military has agreed to slash the defence budget for the..
Nigerian Diplomat Tijjani Muhammad-Bande has been elected the next president of the new General Assembly and he ..
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday expressed his readiness to observe a ceasefire if the Taliban ..
On the second day of his UK state visit, US President Donald Trump will meet outgoing British Prime Minister The..
US President Donald Trump arrived in the UK on Monday for a three-day state visit and set a combative tone by at..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has delivered a sobering assessment of the prospects of President Donald Trump..
Kim Yong-chol, a former North Korean spymaster and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeos counterpart in recent dipl..
Officials from Pakistan''s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province''s Wildlife Department seized a pair of snakeskin sandals..
China''s Defence Minister has issued a stern rebuke to the United States amid the ongoing trade war and tension ..
Democrats are increasingly in support of impeaching US President Donald Trump and removing him from office but t..
US Special Representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Islamabad to hold meetings ..
In his first major public appearance in Asia, Acting US Defence Secretary Pat Shanahan said on Saturday that Was..
Italy and other European Union countries are "unarmed" against unemployment, which the incoming European Commiss..
The US Navy has acknowledged that a request had been made regarding the USS John S. McCain in relation to Presid..
US President Donald Trump announced that he will formally launch his re-election campaign for the 2020 election ..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritius counterpart Pravind Jugnauth held talks here on Friday and agreed..
Former Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has lashed out at some Indian media outlets for using wrong pict..
The facade of the ADNOC Group Tower in Abu Dhabi was lit up with the flags of India and the UAE and portraits of..
The Philippines has sent tonnes of rubbish back to Canada, after a week-long diplomatic spat that saw President ..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres looks forward to working with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has..
With Benjamin Netanyahu unable to form a governing coalition, the Israeli Parliament Knesset voted to dissolve i..
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Donald Trump''s administration was tearing down hard..
US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Clarke Cooper is visiting New Delhi next week to ..
Time magazine, which published a cover story before the Indian election calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi the..
The US Treasury Department has removed India from its currency monitoring list of major trading partners.
Terming Europe a "winner" in the European Parliament elections, EU Commission President Donald Tusk said Brexit ..
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit India this year for which the venue and the dates are being finalised, t..
China on Tuesday told the US to stop interfering in Tibet after the American envoy advised Beijing to hold talks..
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Chief Executive Officer Richard Morin has stepped down from his post and his resig..
UK Foreign Secretary and Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has warned that his party will be committing "pol..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he is trying his best to form a new government in t..
China has always maintained the position that any trade consultation with the US should be based on the principl..
Nearly 20 people, including 16 school children were injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage in Kawasaki C..
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said that, "actions - not words" will show the intentio..
Visiting Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan said the the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was rapidly exp..
Nepal''s tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to "overcr..
From the summer of 2014 to March 2015, US Navy pilots had reported about seeing strange objects in the sky, one ..
Visiting US President Donald Trump on Monday said that he needs to correct a "tremendous" trade imbalance with J..
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country will send about 1,500 additional troops to the Middle ..
US President Donald Trump bypassed Congress to approve the sale of $8.1 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, t..
US President Donald Trump has raised the possibility of easing restrictions on Huawei as part of a broader trade..
A giant mural depicting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern embracing a Muslim woman in the wake of the Ch..
Theresa May is continuing to face pressure from her own MPs to resign after one of her senior ministers quit the..
US President Donald Trump cut short a scheduled meeting with top Democrats on infrastructure and announced that ..
China''s three biggest airlines have demanded compensation from Boeing over losses incurred by its grounded 737 ..
The prospects of Iranian attacks on US forces in the Middle East have been put "on hold", acting US Defence Secr..
US President Donald Trump has nominated Barbara Barrett, a former US Ambassador to Finland and one-time Republic..
US President Donald Trump''s administration is considering blacklisting a Chinese video surveillance giants from..
The man accused of committing the Christchurch mosques shootings on March 15 was charged on Tuesday with terrori..
United Nations refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi began a five-day visit to Myanmar on Monday - his first since..
At least 510 people have been killed and 2,467 injured in the military escalation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is very concerned about the rising rhetoric between Iran and the US and wa..
The White House has directed one of its former legal advisers not to testify to a congressional committee about ..
Chinese-made drones may be sending sensitive flight data to their manufacturers in Beijing, where it can be acce..
The listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as an international terrorist by a UN sanctions committ..
A senior Iranian official called Donald Trump a "crazy President" whose threats against Tehran weren''t going to..
A US federal district judge has ordered accounting firm Mazars that it will need to turn over Donald Trump''s ac..
At least 32 people, including 29 inmates and three prison guards, were killed in a riot in a prison situated at ..
US President Donald Trump has warned Iran "never" to threaten the US again, saying if Tehran wants to fight, tha..
A Dubai-based charity, owned by an Indian expat, has set a new Guinness World Record for iftar distribution, the..
US President Donald Trump has asked Iran "never to threaten" the US and warned Tehran that if it wants a fight, ..
Two days after the statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Kolkata was vandalised during BJP President Amit Shah'..
An F-16 fighter jet returning to March Air Reserve Base in Moreno Valley of California in the US has crashed int..
It''s not imminent but the US needs a "better prepared firehouse with better equipped firefighters" else the fir..
The BJP will cross the majority mark without West Bengal and the state will help the party in crossing the targe..
Iran is committed to the 2015 nuclear agreement it signed with a group of world powers despite the withdrawal of..
Iran is at the highest level of preparedness to counter any military threat against the country, Defence Ministe..
With a motive to protect US communications network from "foreign adversaries", President Donald Trump declared a..
China''s Chang''e-4 mission, the first to land on the far side of the moon, is shedding light on one of the moon..
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed into law the most restrictive abortion bill in the US, which passes a near ..
The White House has launched a new tool for people to report if they have been wrongly censored, banned or suspe..
US President Donald Trump has moved to ban American telecom firms from installing foreign-made equipment that co..
Security forces in Afghanistan have unearthed and defused 20 landmines in Kandahar province, officials said on W..
The brother-in-law of Mumbai terror attack mastermind and proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has ..
Sri Lanka has no requirement to bring in the US Army or armies of other countries in the aftermath of the Easter..
The case of a Christian couple on death row in Pakistan after being convicted of blasphemy has reportedly been t..
The American Embassy in Iraq said on Wednesday that the US State Department has ordered the non-emergency staff ..
US President Donald Trump said that it was "very unfair" for the Senate Intelligence Committee to subpoena his e..
Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the two countries are ..
US President Donald Trump dismissed a New York Times report about US top security officials reviewing a plan to ..
UK MPs will vote on a Brexit bill again in early June whether or not the government of Prime Minister Theresa Ma..
A Nepalese Sherpa climber on Wednesday reached atop Mount Everest for the 23rd time, becoming the only mountaine..
Royalty will take on commoner in the Patiala parliamentary seat of Punjab as Preneet Kaur, popularly known as Ma..
At a meeting of US President Donald Trumps top national security aides last week, Acting Defence Secretary Patri..
US President Donald Trump said that he will have a face-to-face meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping ..
The stalled Security Council reform and fighting terrorism will be priorities for the next session of the UN Gen..
Iran may quit the nuclear deal it clinched with major world powers in 2015 if the case is sent back to the UN Se..
At least two policemen were killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast in Quetta district of Pakistan''s south..
US President Donald Trump said that he would meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the summit of t..
US President Donald Trump said has that he is prepared to impose tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports to the..
An initial US assessment has indicated that Iran was likely to be behind the attack on two Saudi Arabian oil tan..
A Chinese cargo plane, carrying aid for the economically-stricken Venezuela, arrived in the capital of Caracas, ..
US law enforcement has started the process of trying to remove protesters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washing..
Former US President Jimmy Carter was recovering from a hip surgery following a fall at his home in Georgia.
US President Donald Trump has effectively taken charge of the countrys premier Fourth of July celebration in Was..
The Pakistan government has said that talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a bailout package will..
Electric Vehicle (EV) maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk will undergo trial in October in a defamation case that was file..
Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan, has notified Congress that he intended to shift $1.5 billion that ..
The US has announced that it will deploy additional Patriot missiles to the Middle East after officials said int..
US President Trump plans to nominate acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan to formally take over the top spo..
A 25-year-old Indian national, who is a permanent resident in Singapore, has been taken to a court for allegedly..
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday decided to hold its 2020 high-level conference early June in ..
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has said that it was possible that the Russian..
US President Donald Trump has downplayed the prospect of achieving a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea ho..
Amit Mehta, an Indian-American judge, will fast-track a decision on President Donald Trumps bid to quash a subpo..
As the US edges to a constitutional crisis with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives unleashing a ..
China on Wednesday urged all parties to uphold the Iranian nuclear deal after Tehran announced to partially pull..
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia over alleged ceasefire violation..
Pakistan''s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sentenced to seven years in prison in a corruption case, has ret..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made an unannounced visit to Iraq after abruptly cancelling a planned trip..
An 18-year-old student was killed and eight other were injured when two students opened fire inside a school in ..
Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was cleared by the country''s Supreme Court of blasphemy charges las..
Iran will partially withdraw from the 2015 landmark nuclear deal signed with six other nations, President Hassan..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a major global threat from foreign fighters fleeing the defe..
Pakistan''s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will return to jail later on Tuesday following the expiry of his ..
China on Tuesday said it will send its top trade negotiator Li Hu to the US for talks despite Washington''s brea..
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Graham Brady, the chairman of an influential committee of backbench Tory..
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has denied a request from House Democrats for access to six years of Presid..
Turkey''s electoral body has ordered that Istanbul''s local elections be re-held after a shock opposition victor..
Following intelligence showing Iran made plans to target US forces in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, dec..
Asian stock markets on Monday plunging after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh trade tariffs ..
At least 41 people, including two children, on board a Russian Aeroflot plane were killed after it burst into fl..
China is still preparing to send a delegation to Washington for trade talks despite US President Donald Trump la..
Approximately 250 rockets were fired by Gaza militants towards Israel, which has responded with airstrikes on ov..
British Prime Minister Theresa May has urged Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, to "..
A two-seater helicopter has crashed into the Chesapeake Bay in the US state of Maryland, police said, adding tha..
At least 52 Taliban militants, including two key comanders, were killed by the Afghan Army in Ghazni province, t..
A five-day summit on peace in Afghanistan ended on Friday with a call for an urgent ceasefire and a schedule for..
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said his country will never bow to the US anti-Iran pressures,..
Gavin Williamson has been sacked as the Defence Secretary of Britain following an inquiry into a leak from a top..
The Security Council''s terrorism sanctions committee has preserved its credibility by finally declaring Jaish-e..
US Attorney General William Barr has refused to testify to the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee on his h..
The United Nations Security Council''s terrorism sanctions committee has preserved its credibility by finally de..
Former Pakistani military dictator retired General Pervez Musharraf has requested the special court to postpone ..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US would seek to stabilise global oil market after Washington''s..
US President Donald Trump spoke over phone with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the issue of A..
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel two years ago over in..
A 26-year-old former US Army soldier who served in Afghanistan has been charged with plotting terror attacks in ..
Colombo, April 29 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday named a new police chief and appoin..
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday appealed to Pakistan and India to mend their ties, ruptured after the dea..
Beijing has dropped the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM) from the list of projects covere..
The elder brother of two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at two hotels in the Easter Sunday bombings in S..
Catholics in Sri Lanka followed televised religious services on Sunday as churches remained shut after the bisho..
Following an announcement that former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will appear before a special court on ..
Visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday met Chinese President Xi Jinping here for bilateral talks...
Continuing Washington''s drift from multilateralism, US President Donald Trump has announced that he was withdra..
A total of 15 people were killed following a fierce gun battle between Sri Lankan forces and an armed group in K..
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani formally inaugurated the country''s new Parliament amid tight security on..
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday said that there were as many as 140 Islamic State suspects i..
Pro-government forces in Afghanistan have killed more civilians in the first three months of 2019 than the Talib..
A total of 1,409 Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pilots from Sweden, Norway and Denmark went on strike on Friday, ca..
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un came face-to-face for the first time ever i..
Stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj has called out US President Donlad Trump''s son-in-law and White House senior adv..
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed 37 citizens convicted in terror cases, the Ministry of Interior said.
An American, a Colombian and a Spanish citizen has been accused by the Nicolas Maduro government of carrying out..
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss "the health of the public co..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to name a new settlement in the Golan Heights after US..
Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday confirmed that Easter Sunday suicide bombings toll has touched 359 which inc..
Four Hong Kong activists were sentenced to jail on Wednesday for their role in pro-democracy demonstrations.
US President Donald Trump has contended that none of his underlings routinely defy his commands, despite numerou..
Sri Lankans observed a nationwide three-minute silence on Tuesday to remember the victims of the deadly blasts w..
Myanmars Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by two Reuters journalists who were sentenced to seven year..
The US Navy has launched an investigation into a report that a female Marine discovered a "recording device" in ..
North Korean state media confirmed on Tuesday that the country's leader Kim Jong-un will visit Moscow shortl..
Sri Lanka''s National Security Council on Monday announced plans to impose a "conditional state of Emergency" fr..
US President Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter where he expresseed condolences to families of the victims..
Comedian Vladimir Zelensky is maintaining his huge lead over incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with..
India''s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale will be on a two-day China visit from Sunday to meet Chinese State Coun..
The US government is taking aim at the "India-based call centre scam industry", Assistant Attorney General Brian..
There was a massive surge in Russian-linked Twitter bots and trolls on the micro-blogging platform after the rel..
American prosecutors want Russian citizen Maria Butina, who pleaded has guilty to an espionage charge, to serve ..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the US will continue to work to negotiate with North Korea to achieve..
Russia on Friday dismissed US special counsel Robert Mueller''s report, saying it contains "no proven evidence" ..
The first meeting between the Taliban and Afghan government representatives on ending the 18-year-old war in the..
China on Friday said that India''s absence at the second Belt and Road forum next week will not affect their eng..
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will visit Japan from May 25 to 28, making them the first..
"This is the end of my Presidency," US President Donald Trump is reported to have exclaimed when he heard about ..
North Korea on Thursday called on the US to replace Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as head of its team negotiati..
Nepals first satellite has been launched into space, which will soon start rotating around the Earths orbit to c..
At least 14 passengers were offloaded from a bus on a highway in Pakistan''s Balochistan province and shot dead ..
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a four-day visit to China next week to attend the Belt and Roa..
Former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood on Wednesday took charge as the country''s new Foreign..
The release of the report of the investigation into allegations that Russia colluded with President Donald Trump..
A day after ace golfer Tiger Woods won his fifth Masters title and 15th major tournament in a rousing resurrecti..
The UN owes India $30 million for its contributions to the peacekeeping operations, according to Secretary-Gener..
US Senator Bernie Sanders has released a decade of tax returns, providing new insight into how the Democratic so..
A devastating fire that engulfed the Notre Dame, the 850-year-old Unesco world heritage landmark in Paris, was b..
The US State Department has approved a possible deal with Taiwan to renew a $500 million training programme in A..
The UN has said it wants to do more to help the people of Rukban in Syria - those who fled and those are still t..
US President Donald Trump has publicly recommended Boeing to "rebrand" its troubled 737 Max planes after two fat..
India will be the guest of honour at the 29th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair that will be held..
The Indian mission in Dubai has said that non-resident Indians (NRIs) cannot vote online in the ongoing Lok Sabh..
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has released 15 ..
The visit of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Islamabad for finalising a bailout package for Paki..
Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and is also openly gay, has announced that he ..
American Airlines has extended the cancellation of its Boeing 737 Max flights until August 19 due to the indefin..
US President Donald Trump''s re-election campaign has raised more than $30 million in the first fundraising quar..
The Arab League (AL) has expressed its support for the "important steps" announced by Sudan''s Transitional Mili..
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said that President Donald Trump''s prospective plan to send undoc..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that hatred speech has been spreading like wildfire through the..
A two-day meeting of 21st Asean-India Senior Officials concluded here on Friday after they discussed ways to imp..
Under pressure from Washington, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has dropped the investigation of alleged ..
WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, who was arrested in London on Thursday, will not be giv..
The Taliban announced their annual spring offensive in Afghanistan on Friday with a special focus on capturing u..
US President Donald Trump has announced he will visit Normandy, France, in June to commemorate the 75th annivers..
In the era of the fourth Industrial Revolution when automation looms, people''s opportunities and well-being hav..
US President Donald Trump has suddenly withdrawn the nomination of Robert Williams to be the Assistant Secretary..
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu''s Likud party has won 36 seats and surpassed the main rival, the Blue and Whi..
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his government has dug out new proof of corruption and money la..
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the BBC reported citing ..
South Korea''s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday as "unconstitutional" a 66-year-old law that made abortion..
More than 400,000 European nationals have applied to secure their stay in the UK after Brexit, the Home Office h..
Eight policemen and seven militants were killed in a fighting in Afghanistan''s Kunduz province on Thursday, off..
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on the UN to expel the representative of Venezuelan President Nicolas Ma..
US Attorney General William Barr has delivered a counter-punch to the Democrats with the explosive assertion tha..
France has denied reports that Pakistani pilots under an exchange programme with Qatar were being trained to fly..
The UK and the European Union (EU) have agreed on a "flexible" Brexit delay until October 31, with the option to..
India has a lot of scope for reducing some food and fertiliser subsidies, while also taking steps to ensure that..
Congressional Democrats are making a fresh push to repeal US President Donald Trump''s travel ban that predomina..
Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday expr..
The The wreckage of a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter jet was found on Wednesday, a day after it disappeared from ..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to secure a record fifth term in office on Wednesday despit..
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak''s wife on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in a new corruption case whe..
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan''s assertion that India was going to "annex" Kashmir has failed to evoke any ..
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza were indicted by an accountabili..
US President Donald Trump''s administration is ratcheting up its hardline policies in two areas where India''s i..
British MPs have passed a historic legislation to delay Article 50, forcing the Prime Minister Theresa May''s go..
Israelis are set to vote in their country''s most closely fought general election in years, media reported.
Two Russian destroyers and a tanker docked here on Monday amid the annual Balikatan joint exercises between the ..
US President Donald Trump is set to welcome his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday for the sec..
Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security who has become a face of President Donald Trump''s hardline..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for honouring hi..
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has written to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting another extension..
India''s claim that one of its pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle in February "ap..
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has mentioned names of several political leaders and three Indian journalists i..
In an implicit criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, BJP veteran L.K. Advani on..
US President Donald Trump touted prospects for an "epic" trade deal with China but acknowledged that a settlemen..
US Congressman Tim Ryan of the state of Ohio has announced his presidential bid, becoming the newest name in a s..
Turkey''s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has warned the US not to interfere in the country''s local ..
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said her country will stand together with the other European Union (EU) memb..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for calm and restraint in Libya, as the eastern Libyan ..
How rich is Trump really? If the Democrats are successful in their campaign to unearth his tax filings, it may f..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has named former Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus as the new State Departme..
US Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey against going ahead with its planned purchase of the Russian-made S-4..
Former US Vice President Joe Biden has pledged to be "more mindful" about physical contact with women, hoping to..
The crackdown on India-based call centre fraud continues in the US with the sentencing of yet another Indian for..
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has said that imposing import tar..
A day after NASA sharply crticised India''s anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile test as a "terrible thing", the US St..
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo has stressed the urgency of resolving trade tens..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not attend a ministerial-level meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) later t..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Nicholas Koumjian of the US as head of the Independent Inves..
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has announced..
Three Indian-origin high-tech consultants have been arrested and charged with H1-B visa fraud in a California fe..
The US has halted the delivery of support equipment and supplies to Turkey for F-35 jet fighter jets because of ..
The US'' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said that Boeing''s 737 MAX jets will remain grounded for wee..
A second woman has come forward alleging that former us Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately, th..
An Indian national has been sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison for participating in an India-ba..
US Acting Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan met South Korean Minister of National Defence Jeong Kyeong-doo h..
Giving more fodder for fun on social media, US President Donald Trump addressed Sundar Pichai on Twitter as "Pre..
After months of delay, officials from Nepal and India will finally review bilateral ties as Indian Foreign Secre..
A former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of the largest security breach in US intelligence his..
None of the eight Brexit options proposed by British lawmakers have secured clear backing in a series of votes i..
Tibet''s 2018 GDP has reached $22 billion - about 191 times more than the 1959 figure calculated at comparable p..
Myanmar military posts have been attacked by the Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine state, leaving casualties on both s..
The US Missile Defence Agency successfully launched two ground-based missile interceptors in rapid succession ag..
The Pentagon notified Congress that it has sanctioned the transfer of $1 billion to begin new wall construction ..
US President Donald Trump''s administration has said that the entire Affordable Care Act or Obamacare should be ..
Kazakhstan''s new President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Saturday signed a decree to officially rename the country''..
Enhanced South-South Cooperation among developing countries fuelled by the rapid economic growth of some in thei..
The European Union (EU) has agreed on a plan to delay the Brexit process that avoids the UK crashing out without..
US President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Michael Kratsios as the country''s Chief Technology O..
The Venezuelan government has accused the detained chief of staff of self-proclaimed interim head of state Juan ..
The US Department of Defence gave Congress a list of projects that were likely to be affected by President Donal..
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law two set of bills aimed to ban and punish the spread of fake..
A drone belonging to the NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) coalition forces crashed in Afghanistan''s Parwan provin..
Saudi Arabia''s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman authorised a secret campaign to silence dissenters, which inclu..
The recent India-Pakistan tensions after the February 14 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF troopers, wil..
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday said the country''s existing gun laws will be reformed withi..
Israel''s Supreme Court has disqualified the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, Michael Ben-Ari, from n..
Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior member of football''s world governing body FIFA for allegedly def..
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has said his country will not return to the "policies of destructive wars"..
The US Transportation Department''s Inspector General has opened an investigation into the Federal Aviation Admi..
A top US general has refuted a media report that the American military was developing plans to keep up to 1,000 ..
More than 24 hour after the terror attack at two mosques in New Zealand''s Christchurch city, a man from Hyderab..
US President Donald Trump has issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting a legislation to overturn his d..
A day after 49 people were killed in the horrific Christchurch mosques shootings, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Washington is still hopeful for continued talks with Pyongyang.
Beto O''Rourke, former Democratic congressman from the US state of Texas, has announced that he will run for pre..
At least 49 people were killed when gunmen said to be whites opened indiscriminate fire at two mosques in Christ..
Former Texas Congressman Robert "Beto" O''Rourke has said that he is joining the race to take on Republican Pres..
The US Republican-led Senate has voted to end Washington''s support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen..
A US State Department report has labelled journalist Jamal Khashoggi''s murder a human rights violation committe..
The slow-moving US plans to set up six nuclear power plants in India have received a boost as the two nations re..
US intelligence agents laid a cyber trail all the way to a fake terror camp in Pakistan, mastered idioms and sty..
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will arrive in Islamabad on Thursday on a day-long official visit to meet ..
While admitting that poverty has fallen in India, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michele Bachelet cautioned t..
US Senator Marco Rubio has accused Saudi Arabia''s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of going "full gangster" and..
Italy is reportedly planning to officially announce its support for China''s Belt and Road Initiative this month..
President of the General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa is "optimistic from what she has been hearing" about t..
While Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has not spoken to Prime Ministers Narendra Modi of India and Imran Khan..
US President Donald Trump has responded to lawmakers that he fully agrees on keeping US forces in Syria, the med..
Polish President Andrzej Duda and Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak have kick-started a series of events markin..
The first phase of Saudi Arabia''s long awaited purchase of an advanced US missile defence system has been final..
US President Donald Trump has announced that he was ending India''s $5.6 billion trade concessions under the Gen..
The Pakistan government has issued an order to streamline a process for the implementation of sanctions against ..
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, on Monday asked the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) perso..
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been granted leave from prison to attend his seven-year..
US President Donald Trump has asked China to remove all of its tariffs on American agricultural products, pointi..
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed his willingness to intensify bilateral cooperation "in all areas",..
The US had launched diplomatic efforts to tamp down the rising New Delhi-Islamabad tensions before Pakistan Prim..
Two years ago, when the Congress party was losing elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was surging ahe..
The UN Security Council has failed to adopt two competing draft resolutions on Venezuela, sponsored by the US an..
Israel''s attorney general intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges.Netanyahu f..
A convicted tax cheat and liar, who was once Donald Trump''s lawyer, has come before a Congressional committee t..
Officials of the US and the Taliban have decided to take a two-day break in the ongoing peace talks in Qatar and..
His comments came as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that Pakistan had temporarily restored its air..
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is having discussions "at different levels with different parties" about the ..
India on Thursday demanded the immediate and unharmed release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and ruled o..
A summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended on Thursday with no agreeme..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the wake of escalat..
The third round of negotiations between China and the US to end their trade war began on Thursday here as the pa..
The hardline US National Security Adviser John Bolton has issued a warning to India against buying Venezuelan oi..
Sri Lanka has started advertising for executioners this week after President Maithripala Sirisena declared he wo..
America''s public debt has reached a record high of more than $22 trillion, according to data released by the US..
UK Defence Minister Gavin Williamson has revealed that the country will send its largest and most powerful aircr..
A new Pentagon report has warned that China and Russia were both developing space capabilities to threaten the U..
Several member states of the United Nations have called for plans to ensure the safety and security of peacekeep..
The first week of the Chinese New Year generated sales to the tune of 1.01 trillion yuan ($147 billion), represe..
A former White House staffer who wrote a tell-all book, is suing President Donald Trump over non-disclosure agre..
US House and Senate legislators have reached an agreement "in principle" to provide $1.375 billion for barriers ..
Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on an unannounced visit.According ..
The Myanmar Army has bombed villages and are blocking civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance ..
Australian security agencies are reportedly probing the role of China-sponsored cyber criminals behind last week..
US authorities have captured two alleged supporters of the deadly Pakistani terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Tay..
Iran is ready to boost the capacity of its uranium enrichment, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Ener..
The dismantling of arms control system by the United States might cause unpredictable consequences, Vasily Neben..
Pakistan''s Interior Ministry on Saturday rejected pleas of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Mar..
Pakistan released Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar at US'' request to help expedite the Afghan peac..
China on Saturday opposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi''s visit to Arunachal Pradesh and said such actions would..
US President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on ..
The World Bank has provided a grant of $235 million to the Afghan government to support its efforts for developm..
Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai has warned that the so-called "decoupling" of Beijing and Washington, w..
A US federal judge has sentenced a Chinese student to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally taki..
A batch of over 12,000 human blood plasma has been found contaminated with HIV in China and the government has l..
Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu US Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate, has said that Syrian Pres..
US President Donald Trump will on Thursday introduce an initiative that will seek to help bring economic securit..
Iranian Foreign Minister on Wednesday denounced US President Donald Trump''s State of the Union address in which..
President Donald Trump has said that he wants immigrants to come to the US in "largest ever numbers" legally, as..
The trade war between the US and China is expected to boost the Indian economy with a rise of 3.5 per cent in ex..
Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have transferred American-made weapons to Al Qaeda-linked fighters, Sala..
US President Donald Trumps campaign and affiliated committees raised over $21 million in the last three months o..
Pakistan has appointed the country''s first ever Hindu female civil judge after she passed an examination for in..
The Afghan Army launched an operation and freed 38 people from a Taliban prison in Ghazni province, the authorit..
Indian American Senator Kamala Harris has officially kicked off her campaign for the Democratic presidential nom..
Afghan security forces have killed the mastermind of the deadly bombing on a military base in eastern Afghanista..
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has hinted that a series of discussions held between American and North Korean..
Flights were grounded for almost an hour at the Newark International Airport in the US state of New Jersey after..
China''s Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday that it has decided to impose anti-dumping duties on ortho dichlor..
At least 10 people were killed in a fire that broke out onboard two ships, both carrying Indian crew, near the K..
Israel''s military on Monday said it has started hitting Iranian targets in Syria.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF..
US President Donald Trump''s Special Envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan on Thursday to di..
Raising the stakes in the US government shutdown standoff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has blocked President Dona..
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from the state of New York, has announced running for President in 202..
US President Donald Trump''s nominee forUS attorney general, William Barr, on Tuesday emphasised his independenc..
The Israeli military on Sunday said it has found another cross-border tunnel allegedly dug by the Hezbollah mili..
US President Donald Trump has halted his plan to declare a national emergency over immigration at the southern b..
A day after he resumed duties, CBI Director Alok Verma was on Thursday unceremoniously removed from the post aft..
India must do as much as possible for the peace process in Afghanistan to be a success, former Afghan President ..
China has raised the possibility of opening more military support bases abroad in case there is a need to do so,..
The US has urged China to stop coercing Taiwan and resume dialogue with the Taiwan government for a peaceful res..
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday said he was confident that a second summit between his US counter..
US Special Representative on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is slated to visit India among other countries in the ..
Renewed violence in Myanmar''s Rakhine state, from where about a million Rohingyas have fled since 2017, has dis..
China approved imports of five new varieties of genetically modified crops, paving the way for US agricultural f..
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday arrived in Beijing on a state visit, fuelling speculation that his se..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the White House to recognise "Israeli sovereignty" over ..
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Ara..
Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have finalised a $6.2 billion support package to help Islamabad addr..
Myanmar President U Win Myint on Friday called for trust-building to promote the peace process and ensuring well..
US President Donald Trump said he "looks forward to meeting the new leadership in Pakistan" and in the same brea..
US President Donald Trump said he has received a "great" letter from the top leader of the Democratic People''s ..
Egyptian security forces killed 40 suspected extremists during operations in several parts of the country in res..
As the White House mulls whether or not to seal off the US'' southern border, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lo..
The partial shutdown of the US federal government is set to drag into next week after lawmakers made little prog..
Israel''s military on Wednesday said that it found and demolished another cross-border tunnel dug by Hezbollah f..
The North Korean Red Cross has described the countrys health situation "extremely worrying" as a result of sever..
The US is offering Taliban militants a safety network that job opportunities to persuade the insurgents to join ..
France has dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying former Rwandan Presid..
Japan on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) conservation body an..
At least five people were killed and 22 others were injured after a bus which had been hijacked in China''s Fuji..
Pakistan''s Ambassador to the US Ali Jehangir Siddiqui stepped down from his post on Tuesday, the media reported..
Chinese Foreign Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi held talks here on Tuesday over the ..
Earlier in the evening, Lopez Obrador had reported the crash but said only that it was possible that the couple ..
A federal judge in Washington ordered North Korea to pay $501 million to the parents of Otto Warmbier, who died ..
Indonesian authorities have confirmed the death of at least 281 people in the devastating tsunami that hit the S..
US Defence Secretary James Mattis has announced that he would resign at the end of February due to differences w..
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena unveiled a new Cabinet on Thursday, days after Ranil Wickremesinghe wa..
The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after c..
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates again, defying warnings from President Donald Trump against the..
Flights at UK''s Gatwick Airport have been suspended amid reports of two drones being flown over the airfield.
Australia on Saturday officially recognized West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after a period of consultati..
Bangladesh''s main opposition party has accused the government of cracking down on its workers to prevent them f..
Sri Lanka''s disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned from his post on Saturday, signalling an end to ..
India and France on Saturday reiterated their resolve to jointly fight the global scourge of terrorism following..
Pakistan, China and Afghanistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) vis-a-vis anti-terrorism cooperation ..
The US Senate has passed a resolution blaming and condemning Saudi Arabia''s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman fo..
A South Korean fashion and cosmetics firm has stirred controversy with a facial mask featuring Kim Jong-un promp..
The bill gives the White House 30 days to withdraw US troops from Yemen, except those that are tasked with fight..
The shooter, who killed three people at a Christmas market in France''s Strasbourg on Tuesday, has been killed, ..
A Pakistan Minister on Thursday said that an incoming investment package from Saudi Arabia promises to be "the b..
A second Canadian may have been detained in China in a potential act of retribution that threatens to escalate t..
Canada has issued a stern warning to US President Donald Trump against using the arrest of Chinese tech company ..
The unanimous passage of a bill that insists on reciprocity between the US and China over travel access to Tibet..
A 38-year-old Indian man has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the US on commer..
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said that Islamabad would continue with its efforts for peace in i..
As Washington announced that Pakistan had been added to a list of violators of religious freedoms, Islamabad on ..
Pakistan''s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that India''s cooperation would be needed for bringin..
Even though the idea of globalisation has come under fire in the last few years, with increasing levels of disco..
Russia''s Alrosa, the world''s largest diamond miner by volume, is bullish about India after registering sales o..
India on Tuesday handed over to Myanmar the first 50 housing units built for the displaced Rohingya Muslim minor..
A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former policeman, described as the country''s "most prolific mass murderer..
The two-week long India-China military exercise in Chengdu city will have a positive impact on bilateral ties, a..
A Myanmar court will hear later this month the appeal of two Reuters reporters jailed on charges of violating a ..
The UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members, the European Court of Justice ruled ..
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed on the need to implement decisions against Israel, the US and t..
Arab nations have deftly outmanoeuvred the US at the UN to defeat a resolution it sponsored condemning Hamas by ..
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold talks in Washington..
Microsoft''s Indian-origin Chief Technology Officer for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Joseph Sirosh has joined Co..
UK ministers were set to battle on Wednesday in an attempt to win over rebel MPs on Prime Minister Theresa May''..
There are discrepancies coming out of US and China in their terms regarding the temporary truce in an ongoing tr..
CIA chief Gina Haspel must brief the full Senate on the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, several senat..
US senators say they are more certain than ever after a private CIA briefing that the Saudi crown prince had a r..
China has agreed to cut tariffs on cars it imports from the US, President Donald Trump has said, a day after he ..
George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the US and father of the 43rd who steered the nation through a tumultuou..
rime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived here to participate in the G20 Summit, sought the help of the Indians in..
US President Donald Trump has arrived in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires to attend the two-day G20 Summit,..
Jailed Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia suffered a fresh blow on Wednesday as the country''s apex court..
Up to 26 militants have been killed and more than 20 others injured as troops, backed by air force, targeted Tal..
Renewing their public protests, hundreds of Google employees have demanded in an open letter withdrawal of "Proj..
Slovenia has appointed a woman as head of its army, becoming the only Nato nation to do so.Maj Gen Alenka Ermenc..
Former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen tried to play India and China against each other, but the new governmen..
Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to federal investigators in ..
General Mark Carleton-Smith, the head of the British army, has said that Russia was now a "far greater threat" t..
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan here on Wednesday as the two ..
Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has told his new cabinet that the Maldives will be a part of the Commo..
China welcomes the US'' commitment to support regional infrastructure and hopes the promise won''t fail in pract..
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has told MPs to call for another no-confidence vote on the government,..
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has sought a stay on the 10-year prison sentence awarded to her in ..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced that he will serve as defence minister amidst effo..
The widow of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos was released on bail on Friday after paying a 150,000..
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a test of a newly developed high-tech weapon, amid faltering nucle..
At least 20 Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed over the past 24 hours as a result of US-led airstrike..
The death toll from the three raging wildfires in California has increased to 58, while authorities have continu..
Four authors of Indian origin and two of Pakistani, whose novels bring alive a spectrum of themes and emotions r..
Sri Lanka''s Parliament on Wednesday passed a motion of no-confidence against new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapak..
The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Wedne..
South Korea''s presidential office on Tuesday played down a report on North Korea''s "undisclosed" missile sites..
US President Donald Trump told advisers that he has decided to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Niels..
Bangladesh will obegin to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who last year fled a violent..
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the content of an audio recording of the killing of journal..
The Israeli authorities on Monday tightened security measures around the Gaza Strip following clashes that kille..
The US military has adopted yoga into its training curriculum, Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik sa..
An American fighter jet deployed in Japan crashed on Monday into the sea off Okinawa, according to the US Pacifi..
Sri Lanka''s main political parties filed petitions in the Supreme Court on Monday challenging President Maithri..
The Bangladesh Election Commission on Monday postponed the polling date for the country''s general election from..
Russia is reacting calmly to the recent large-scale military drills conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organ..
The French and US Presidents said on Saturday they agreed that Europe needed to increase its contribution to com..
In her memoir, former US First Lady Michelle Obama has ripped President Trump''s spreading of the "birther" cons..
The foreign affairs committee of Italy''s lower house of parliament has unanimously approved a resolution callin..
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will pay a visit to Singapore soon and attend the 33rd Summit of the A..
The US has imposed new sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russia''s role in Ukraine issue, ac..