As a mark of their disapproval with regard to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization move, the leaders of the Opposition parties have called for a nationwide bandh on November 28.
To help women battling domestic violence, a Moroccan TV channel offered some advice: Cover your bruises with makeup.
Tens of thousands of people joined nationwide protests yesterday against India's ban on high-value banknotes, which organisers said had caused a "financial emergency" in a country that operates almost entirely on cash.
The Chinese currency extended its decline against the U.S. dollar on Monday, while analysts expect the central bank to place short-term priority on the yuan's stability against a basket of currencies rather than the dollar alone.
Hundreds of people have taken up arms against Taliban outfit in the northern Jawzjan province after the armed group has intensified activities in the neighboring Saripul and Faryab provinces.
The Chinese currency, the renminbi or the yuan, weakened against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, as the dollar climbed against most major currencies on Wednesday with investors assessing the impact of Republican Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election.
Leila de Lima is the former justice minister who Duterte’s allies removed as head of a Senate probe into his bloody war on drugs
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 230 basis points to 6.7008 against the U.S. dollar Monday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS).
Sterling has fallen to a three-year low against the euro after Theresa May outlined the timetable for starting Brexit negotiations.
A senior Iranian official warned the United States against any direct military intervention against the Syrian army, Press TV reported on Monday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey defended his decision to send ground troops into Syria on Tuesday, saying that his military’s incursion had helped establish “peace, balance and stability in a region taken over by hopelessness.”
Political and business leaders from across the world rang the alarm here over the weekend against a broad resurgence of trade protectionism, calling for concerted efforts to boost global trade.
The Philippine government has been "successful" in its first phase on the war against illegal drugs, a senior government official said on Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Pakistan had made progress in the fight against extremism in recent months, but urged Islamabad to push harder against militants hiding within its borders as tensions with neighbouring India rise amid more violence in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff, twice elected president as the candidate of a left-leaning alliance led by the Workers' Party (PT), will undergo one of the most critical moments of her political career next week.
Bangladesh's apex court on Aug. 30 will deliver its final verdict on the review petition filed by an influential leader of the country's largest Islamist party, who was sentenced to death in 2014 for war crimes including mass killings.
Over six in 10 Americans say racism against blacks is widespread in the United States, while 41 percent say racism against whites is widespread, Gallup found in a poll released Wednesday.
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