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New Delhi, Mar.8 (ANI): While Asia and the Pacific can take pride in the region’s vibrant economic transformation in recent decades, this has not translated into progress on gender equality.
Discrimination and neglect are threatening women’s very survival in the Asia-Pacific region, where women suffer from some of the world’s lowest rates of political representation, employment [...]

London, Sep.16 (ANI): A leading British think-tank has said there is an important need for the US and its western allies to create a coalition of a group of countries to work closely on issues facing the world.

The London-based International Institute for [...]

Melbourne, July 5 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has maintained that the Australian parliamentary delegation’s decision to meet the Dalai Lama in India was entirely appropriate despite Chinese condemnation.

“This is a reflection of Australia’s democratic strengths. It is entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation to visit India and entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation [...]

BERLIN: Germany on Friday was celebrating the 60th birthday of the post-World War II federal republic that became a leading and peaceful political and economic power.
President Horst Koehler is to speak at a ceremony at a Berlin concert house attended by other political leaders. It marks the anniversary of the May 23, 1949 proclamation of [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (ANI): Guessing that the world is today on the cusp of a new type of multipolarity, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon today said that an unavoidable shift in the balance of economic power is underway and [...]

Lalit K Jha Washington, Apr 10(PTI) President Barack Obama has pitched for USD 83.4 billion for military operations to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaeda and Taliban threatening the US from their safe havens along the Pak-Afghan border, asking lawmakers to urgently approve his “last” supplemental funds to fight terrorism. “We face a security situation in [...]

WASHINGTON: A resurgent al-Qaida and the Taliban pose a serious threat from its safe haven in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border, the US President Barack Obama
has said.
“We face a security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that demands urgent attention. The Taliban is resurgent and al-Qaida threatens America from its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama met religious leaders in Istanbul on Tuesday as part of an effort to unite moderates of major faiths against extremism.
Obama told the Muslim world in a speech on Monday the United States was not at war with Islam, using his first international tour to try to repair the United States’ damaged [...]

A South African court on Tuesday formally withdrew corruption charges against South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, who is expected to become president after an election this month, local media said.
A judge at a Durban High Court formally endorsed a decision by prosecutors to drop the case against Zuma after discovering that senior officials had manipulated the [...]

Multan, Apr 6 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said no foreign military would be allowed to set foot in the country and law enforcement agencies will conduct anti-terrorism operations inside the country.

Qureshi told reporters here that during his recent visit to Washington, he had conveyed to the US that NATO would not [...]

South Africa said on Sunday it would only hand over $30 million in agricultural aid to Zimbabwe after a unity government is formed, denying a Zimbabwe media report it had reversed a decision to hold back the help.
While South Africa and other southern African countries are helping Zimbabwe deal with a cholera epidemic, the regional [...]