Amrutha Gayathri

A senior Hamas leader has reportedly been assassinated in the Syrian capital Damascus. The Palestinian group holds Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, responsible for the killing.

A Turkish convoy of 30 military vehicles and trucks loaded with missile batteries is heading for Syrian border 50 kilometer away from Turkey's coastal town of Iskenderun in Hatay province, Turkish state-run news agency reported Thursday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has admitted that his country is in a real state of war, more than a year after the uprising against regime began. He added that his efforts are aimed at winning the war.

Wrapping up his Latin American tour, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday announced a proposal to set up a $10 billion credit program for the developing economies to offer support for infrastructure projects.

Everyone has a reason to hate the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been in the limelight ever since the brutally oppressive reign of former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak ended. The Western mainstream opinion is united against the Brotherhood, an organization which reeks of sinister religious overtones right from its name supported suitably by its new-found Islamic-state rhetoric. But the radical Islamists in the Middle East condemn the Brotherhood equally, for luring thousands of young Musli...

Flash floods and mudslides in parts of China triggered by heavy rain have left 16 people dead and 8 million affected. Evacuation and relief operations are underway in affected areas where water levels in rivers and reservoirs crossed the danger level.

Indian security agencies have arrested one of the suspected handlers of the terrorists who carried out attacks in Mumbai November 26, 2008, which killed 166 people.

An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude hit a remote mountainous terrain in southwest China Sunday, leaving at least four people dead and over 100 others injured, Chinese authorities said Monday.

Despite the long-standing tensions with China over the Tibetan autonomy, the Dalai Lama, who is on a visit to the UK for public talks and appearances, talked fondly of his close relations with Mao Zedong, saying the Chinese revolutionary leader considered him as a son.

A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully completed a manual docking, or link-up between two separate spacecraft on Sunday the first- ever for the country.

The ouster of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo by the opposition-dominated Congress Friday, claiming he had failed to perform his duties, sparked protests calling for strikes demanding his return.

In the latest development in Pakistan following the political mayhem triggered by an apex court order disqualifying ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, the ruling Pakistan People's Party Friday named former information technology minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as its choice for the post of prime minister.

China and Brazil finalized an agreement on Thursday to exchange national currencies worth up to $30 billion as part of bilateral efforts to shore up reserves in times of crisis.

At least three people died and several were reported missing when a major fire sabotaged a seven-story government building in Mumbai Thursday.

Asia's top buyers of Iranian crude oil have found ways to continue the imports, bypassing the U.S. and European Union sanctions on trade with Tehran, to avoid depending entirely on the Saudi Arabian oil amid unsteady supplies from Libya and Iraq.

Drones can save lives! Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Conservation Drones will soon be used to save nature and protect endangered species in Nepal, after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) successfully tested drones for monitoring activities in protected zones.

Hundreds of thousands of South Korean cab drivers began their first nationwide strike Wednesday, demanding higher fares and cheaper fuel, prompting the authorities to run additional bus and subway services.

Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish militants have intensified after eight soldiers and 10 militants were killed near Turkey's border with Iraq in the worst fighting this year Tuesday.

Refuting Taliban's claims that New Delhi rejected the U.S. call for greater engagement in Afghanistan, Washington praised India's huge role in Afghanistan while Pentagon said that the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's recent visit to India was very successful.

A French diplomat was arrested in Bangalore Tuesday for allegedly raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. He would be produced in a city court later in the day, police said.

China pledged $43 billion, while India and Russia promised $10 billion each, to the International Monetary Fund Monday as aid to debt-ridden countries in the euro zone.

A member of the committee in charge of Egypt's presidential election said that Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsy was leading, soon after the group's declaration that its candidate had won the first presidential race in the post-Mubarak era.

Notwithstanding India's strong opposition to the Taliban, the religious extremist group Sunday praised New Delhi for resisting the U.S. call for greater involvement in Afghanistan.

More than 300 garment factories in a key industrial hub of Bangladesh were shut down indefinitely Saturday following five days of violent protests by a half-million laborers demanding better wages.

Japanese Premier Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday announced the restart of two nuclear reactors, for the first time since the closure of all of country's nuclear power plants following last year's Fukushima crisis, disregarding the widespread public opposition to nuclear power.

Asserting the importance of cash and intellectual property to implement the proposed measures for a sustainable economy, a senior Brazilian negotiator warned against using Europe's financial crisis as an excuse for inaction and underfunding at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil Thursday.

Wal-Mart was accused Thursday of breaching food safety standards in China by selling sesame oil containing excessive amounts of benzopyrene and squid containing hazardous levels of cadmium, both chemicals classified as carcinogenic.

The U.S. Tuesday urged Cambodia to allow full participation in the general elections next year and also free the 13 women being imprisoned for protesting a property development.

Japan has evidence that China shipped missile launch vehicles to North Korea last year, in a possible breach of U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang, Japanese media reported Wednesday.