Using a two-pronged tactic in the Human Rights Council, Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue while speaking on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and then for itself. ....

The death toll in a suicide blast that hit a police check post in the Pakistan city here late last night has risen to nine, a police officer said. ....

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died early on Wednesday, his family said. He was 76. ....

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ending his short but tumultuous tenure as the nations chief diplomat. CIA Director Mike Pompeo will take over the top position. ....

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning of a former Russian spy who was attacked with a nerve agent near his home in southern England last week. ....

As many as 49 people were killed and 22 injured when a passenger plane of the US-Bangla Airlines, flying to Kathmandu from Dhaka, with 71 on board crash-landed and exploded into a ball of flame at Nepal's main airport here on Monday. ....

An aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines from Dhaka to Kathmandu crash landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here on Monday, officials said. ....

All 11 people on board the Turkish plane crashed in Iran on Sunday are dead, media reports said. ....

The US government will not make concessions during negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and will demand that Pyongyang's halt its missile tests and open the door to denuclearizing, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. ....

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday underlined a "clean and upright" political ecology and urged leading officials to uphold rule of law. ....