March2018

China’s increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded into an arms race with the United States, state media said on Tuesday....

Only an impartial investigation in Syria by an international commission can determine if allegations about the use of chemical weapons are true, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Asked about the possibility that the United...

South Korean prosecutors have called former President Lee Myung-bak to appear for questioning over allegations he took bribes when in office, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the latest top-level political corruption scandal to rock the...

Two anti-establishment leaders made early plays to govern Italy on Monday, triggering concern in the euro zone following an inconclusive election where voters shunted mainstream parties to the sidelines. With the euro zone’s third-largest economy seemingly...

Hungary will not have an election budget this year as the government plans to keep the 2018 deficit at the 2.4 percent of GDP target set out in the law, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told an...

Social media is a useful tool when in right hands. But it can be lethal as when it takes the form of a mean of propagation of hoaxes. Internet hoaxes are not new things for us....

Turkey is working to set up camps in nine locations to settle 170,000 displaced people near Syria’s Idlib city and in areas Ankara controls further east in northern Syria, Turkish diplomatic sources said. Turkey and its...

British police raced on Tuesday to identify the substance suspected of striking down a former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow for betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, Mark...

Sri Lanka imposed a curfew in a central town popular with tourists after days of unrest between religious communities with a Buddhist man killed and Muslim businesses set ablaze. Police said on Monday there had been...

Sri Lanka’s government has imposed a nation-wide state of emergency to “take stern action” against people instigating communal violence, a government spokesman has said. The meassure comes after a local curfew was imposed on Monday in the central...