President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

By CNN,

President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by grounding his victory speech in the spi...

Biden , kamala harris , Trump

Facebook faces hate speech crisis in India

By CNN,

Facebook is facing multiple simultaneous controversies in the United States, particularly around disinformation, hate speech and political bias. But t...

facebook , India

India records 1 million cases of COVID-19… and it’s the poorest who are hardest hit

By CNN,

India passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, after its health ministry reported a record 34,956 new infections in just 24 hours. As...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , India

Running out of time: Kenya, other EA countries face new locust threat

By Reuters,

Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with crops and livelihoods after the worst infestatio...

locust

OPINION: How to boost Africa and South East Asia cooperation

By Citizen Reporter,

By Joel Okwemba Considered one of humanity’s great early achievements is the crossing of early man from Asia to Australia. Archeological, geneti...

Floods kill at least 22 in southern Indian state, displace thousands

By Reuters,

At least 22 people have died in the southern Indian state of Kerala after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooding that cut off some ar...

Kerala , monsoon rains , southern India

Legacy of lunacy haunts old Kenya railway. Will China’s Ksh.364B line be different?

By CNN,

In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: "It is not uncommon for a country to create a rai...

SGR

‘Save us from the Satans’: Survivors of Sri Lanka church attack pray

By Reuters,

A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 ...

Islamic state , President Maithripala Sirisena , Sri Lanka , SUICIDE BOMBERS

Trump vows to trash UN arms trade treaty

By VOA,

In front of thousands of people in an Indianapolis sports stadium, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a document rejecting the United Nations Arms Tra...

Trump

India’s Modi rides nationalist fervor ahead of election starting on Thursday

By Reuters,

India’s prime minister is rallying his nationalist base as the world’s biggest democracy begins a general election on Thursday, but it has become ...

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi , nationalist

India conducts successful anti-satellite missile operation, Prime Minister says

By CNN,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has successfully conducted an anti-satellite missile test that put the country in a league of global "space po...

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi , india satellite missile operation

Pakistan seeks more proof from India in Kashmir attack probe

By VOA,

Pakistan said Wednesday it has sought more evidence from India to determine whether any Pakistani nationals had played a role in last month's deadly K...

pakistan

Pakistani PM receives National Day greetings from Indian counterpart

By VOA,

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Friday that his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, sent him "greetings and best wishes" on the eve of Pakista...

National Day , pakistani

Indian billionaire arrested in London over alleged $2B fraud

By CNN,

UK police have arrested India's billionaire diamond dealer Nirav Modi in London over his alleged involvement in a bank fraud that could be worth $2 bi...

Bank Fraud , India , Nirav Modi

China foils bid to blacklist Kashmir attacker; U.S., India vow to keep pushing

By Reuters,

China prevented a U.N. Security Council committee on Wednesday from blacklisting the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), whi...

china , Kashmir , U.N. Security Council

Pakistan seizes religious schools in intensified crackdown on militants

By Reuters,

Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants on Thursday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious school...

militants , pakistan

Crisis may be easing, but nuclear threat still hangs over India and Pakistan

By CNN,

Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any poin...

China’s military is going from strength to strength under Xi Jinping

By CNN,

Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, a revolution has been taking place inside Beijing's armed forces. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has grown ...

Xi Jinping

India-Pakistan border quiet but Kashmir tense amid militancy crackdown

By Reuters,

As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in t...

India , Kashmir , pakistan

The words to say and not to say about suicide

By CNN,

A new government report was released detailing a rise in suicide rates in the United States, a topic that's often avoided, judged or only whispered ab...

Dese'Rae Stage , Dr. Jodi Gold , suicide