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Sirikit, the 86-year-old queen mother of Thailand, has been discharged from hospital after a two-week stay, the Royal Household Bureau said on Tuesday. She was taken to Chulalongkorn hospital on July 22, for an infection in the respiratory…

Pakistan's parliament is set to discuss the Indian government's decision to scrap a special constitutional status for the disputed territory of Kashmir, with Pakistan's top military leadership also due to convene on the issue. A joint…

Washington  has frozen the assets of the Venezuelan government, due to continued usurpation of power by President Nicolas Maduro. They also accused Maduro’s government of human rights abuses, arbitrary arrest and detention of Venezuelan…

Muna, the historic mountain in Makkah, where pilgrims all over the world usually commence the last lap of their pilgrimage rites and in observance of Arafat Day, July 10, has started wearing a new look. A correspondent of News Agency of…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament is meeting on Tuesday over the status of implementation of the protocol on the fight against corruption in the sub-region. The meeting of the Joint Committee on Political…

Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday that it would neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware in 2020 and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022. Anna Meegan, Head of Sustainability for Google…

Adewale Adeyemo, a Nigerian-American economic expert, has been appointed president of the Obama Foundation. Adeyemo had served in the administration of former president Obama as deputy national security adviser (NSA) for international…

Former U.S. president Barack Obama has condemned language that feeds hatred and normalises racism. Obama was commenting in a rare statement posted on his Twitter account against the background of the two mass shootings at the weekend,…

Dutch police have detained a 27-year-old man, name withheld for allegedly abusing an eight-year-old boy and broadcasting the crime live on Facebook. The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday in Leiden near The Hague, police said…

US President Donald Trump, on Monday, called for all Americans to condemn white supremacy after two shootings left 29 people dead and sparked accusations that his rhetoric was part of the problem. "The shooter in El Paso posted a…