Seerat Chabba

The U.S. Department of State said Russia has taken no “demonstrable steps” to support efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to besieged towns in the war-torn country.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee called on the majority Catholic country to legalize the practice for cases involving fatal abnormalities.

The latest recall involves defective airbag inflators manufactured by Takata that has affected millions of vehicles around the world.

Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador after a Chinese naval vessel was reported sailing close to contested islands in the East China Sea.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said he will take back “every inch” of the country from his foes, in the first major address since peace talks broke down.

Osamu Suzuki is set to resign from the post over the Japanese company’s use of improper mileage-testing methods.

The East African country faced a three-hour blackout after a monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru Power Station.

Authorities are probing possible mismanagement of funds by two of the company’s former CEOs.

Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte also said the Filipinos, who helped him in the war against crime, would be rewarded.

European Parliament Vice President Alexander Lambsdorff said the EU, which didn’t include Britain at the beginning, would survive without it.

The heads of about a dozen states discussed the setting up of a joint force to tackle outfits like Boko Haram, which has claimed over 20,000 lives in the past six years.

Those being granted commutations had more than repaid their debt to society and earned the early release, the White House said.

With the latest announcement, the total worth of Alibaba shares to be sold by SoftBank reached $10 billion.

The prospect of Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in peace is gradually fading, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.

A project, which could potentially make it possible to create human beings without biological parents, has raised ethical and legal concerns.

The police were shot at Thursday night as they attempted to clear a park of illegal squatters after a court order in the city of Mathura.

After being denied humanitarian access to besieged areas in the war-torn country, the council will meet Friday to assess possible alternatives.

The latest announcement comes after eight automakers recalled 12 million vehicles in the U.S. last week citing defective airbags from the Japanese manufacturer.

The zoo called the birth “a true miracle” for the endangered species whose numbers are fewer than 2,000 worldwide.

The Treasury Department called Pyongyang a “primary money laundering concern,” and announced new restrictions to cut access to global banking systems.

Aiming to tap the ever-growing Chinese market, the drugmaker on Wednesday opened a research and development campus in Shanghai.

The carcasses were found when wildlife authorities were removing live tigers from the premises of the Buddhist temple amid reports of wildlife trafficking.

The move, which would help SoftBank cut its debt and boost liquidity, marks the first sale of shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant by its largest shareholder.

Presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori’s father, former President Alberto Fujimori, is currently in prison for human rights violations during his 1990-2000 government.

The government said Wednesday it aims to curb fine dust emissions in light of worsening air pollution. The coal plants have been blamed for much of the smog in the country.

Merve Buyuksarac was given a suspended sentence Tuesday for a 2014 post on Instagram that insulted the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the announcement Tuesday. Trade between the two countries had fallen by 27.8 percent.

The Global Slavery Index 2016, released Tuesday, found that India topped the list with the highest number of people in modern slavery.

The trial of the chief of Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists and two of the union’s board members will begin Saturday at a Cairo misdemeanors court.