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The U.N. Human Rights Council appointed an independent investigator to help protect homosexuals and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination. With 23 states in favour and 18 muslim, India, South Africa and the Philippines were among...

A top US Congressman has opposed the decision to increase American aid to Pakistan made by the House of Representatives.

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said three suicide bombers were responsible for the attack and all initial indications suggest the Islamic State group was behind it.

At about 0955 GMT, sterling slumped to USD 1.3222 -- the lowest level since September 1985 -- having rebounded slightly after a similar trough was struck on Friday.

The rover's Remote Micro-Imager would be the main instrument for imaging the possible sites. The goal would be to study the regions over time to see if there are any changes and to rule out other causes for the changes, such as dry avalanches.

In his interview, Sanders said he would work to defeat Donald Trump, the Republican presidential presumptive candidate. "I think the issue right here is I'm going to do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump. I think Trump in so many ways will be a disas...

Prime Minister David Cameron did the honourable and graceful thing; he has resigned in the face of the referendum, offering to stay on at most until October.

The 69-year-old real-estate tycoon said he is ready to run "a different kind of campaign" while explaining his decision to fire Lewandowski.

Russian president and japan prime minister Shinzo Abe meeting and Vladimir Putin to meet in Tokyo, Japan to discuss the territorial disputes over Kuril islands

US has appealed Pakistan and Afghanistan to reduce tension following the recent cross border firing.

During a visit to Capitol Hill earlier on Tuesday, Sanders told Democratic senators he would take his message of progressive values and party reform to the convention.

The source told Reuters that a federal grand jury had been convened and could charge Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, as early as Wednesday.

Iraq claimed to have struck a convoy carrying Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border.

Geoengineers have long explored the possibility of sealing CO2 gas in voids underground, such as in abandoned oil and gas reservoirs, but these are susceptible to leakage. So attention has now turned to the mineralisation of carbon to permanently dispose...

UNDP as the main development UN Agency has to play a key role in assisting member states in their efforts.

Growth continues to falter in advanced economies, while there is considerable divergence of performance across emerging market and developing economies, and their overall growth remains below potential, said Basu.