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India has till now only an Observer status in the grouping whose focus is on boosting connectivity, counter- terrorism cooperation, bolstering cooperation in energy sector, enhancing trade and dealing with drug trafficking.

An elderly Indian-American man was attacked and left bleeding on a road in a New Jersey neighborhood in an apparent bias crime.

By voting decisively against tough bailout conditions, as PM Tsipras had urged them to do, Greeks have strengthened his negotiating hand.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in an apparent damage-control exercise on Saturday said he would do everything to protect the January 8 mandate.

Vietnam is Southeast Asia's biggest exporter to the United States, with which it shares annual trade of $35 billion. Both countries are among 12 negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) accord covering combined GDP of $28 trillion.

More than 100 terrorists, 17 soldiers were killed after simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in North Sinai, in the deadliest fighting in years.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi vowed to swiftly make tougher laws against terrorists, a day after the assassination of the country's top prosecutor.

Wikileaks documents revealed that the US wiretapped two of France's economy ministers and spied on the country's largest companies.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal believes that immigrants in the US should learn English and adopt American values.

Many Serbs regard Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, as a pan-Slavic hero, the shot he fired in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 marking the death knell for centuries of foreign occupation over the various nations and faiths that would make up the Yugoslavia that...

President Obama praised Governor Nikki Haley on her lead for taking down the slavery era confederate flag from the capital

Republican Presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal has strongly disapproved of two rulings of the US Supreme Court upholding Obamacare and legalizing same sex marriage.

China hit back at US on Friday for having a "terrible" human rights record as it highlighted America's racially-biased police brutality and "stomach-turning" torture methods.

The signature health care programme of President Barack Obama was vetted by the US Supreme Court on Thursday which ruled that medical insurance subsidies can go to residents of any state, in what is seen as a huge win for the president.

Over 1,200 people have died in Pakistan's Sindh province due to a heatwave described as the worst in decades.

Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour has arrived back in Qatar, blaming his controversial two-day detention in Germany on pressure from the Egyptian government.