What is the Geneva package? How did India present and push its interests especially with regard to the fisheries and agriculture sectors?

Sri Lanka’s new PM sounds surprisingly upbeat in possibly the toughest assignment of his long political career

Four civilians, three soldiers injured in clashes, say police

Every day around 165,000 Palestinians cross with permits into Israel for work.

The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority plans to attract 800,000 tourists during the rest of the year

In an interview published on Sunday in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that “nobody knows” how long the war could last

The soaring temperatures were in line with scientists' predictions that such phenomena will now strike earlier in the year due to global warming.

U.N.'s mission in the West African nation is up for renewal this month, at a volatile time when extremist attacks are intensifying.

Pakistan and India regularly arrest rival fishermen for violating the maritime boundary, which is poorly marked at some points

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Sufiya Ahmed, originally from Surat, recently released the second in a four-book series commissioned by the publishers behind Blyton bestseller

Elections are being held nationwide to select the 577 members of the National Assembly, the most powerful branch of France’s Parliament

The Islamic State – Khorasan Province said the attack on Saturday targeted Hindus and Sikhs and the "apostates" who protected them in "an act of support for the Messenger of Allah"

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"The northern Jaffna peninsula’s Palaly airport is to resume flights to India from next month," the Aviation Minister said on June 18

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots

The move comes nearly two years after a U.S. national security panel ordered parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China’s communist government.

Asserting that yoga is a strong uniting force across geographies and boundaries, the NSF director said science and yoga are in synergy towards the prosperity of the mind and body.

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is accused of being the leader of an alleged criminal conspiracy that received bribes for public works contracts

Experts say climate change is already affecting rainfall patterns and evaporation rates across the region, with knock-on effects for agriculture, industry and wildlife

President Vladimir Putin has said at Russia’s showpiece investment conference that the country’s economy will overcome sanctions that he called “reckless and insane.”

The External Affairs Minister made these remarks during a town hall organised by CNN-News18.

Construction firms from the country and abroad were engaged in the project, Dhaka says

Moscow is trying to squeeze Ukraine’s access to the strategic waters in its south

WikiLeaks’ fortunes have been inextricably tied with the travails of its co-founder Julian Assange

The Israeli military says Palestinian militants have fired a rocket into southern Israel, shattering a two-month lull in violence at the Gaza-Israel border

The Ukrainian President’s visit comes a day after a Russian strike killed two people and injured 20 in the city of Mykolaiv.

Officials say militants have killed three workers and wounded five others in an overnight attack on a road construction labour camp in southwestern Pakistan

A total of 14 accounts were compromised in such a way that some emails were forwarded to addresses outside the party

Nairita Chakraborty, an Indian-origin design advocate, is already a member of Historic England’s Advisory Committee and will start her new role as Commissioner from July 1 for a term of four years

Australia’s energy market operator, in a drastic step, has suspended the National Electricity Market to avoid blackouts

MEA is monitoring the unfolding attack in Kabul

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Some of the human remains which were found deep in Brazil’s Amazon have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips

Floods have devastated the northeastern districts of Sunamganj and Sylhet, cutting off people from electricity as thousands of homes have been inundated

For Sri Lanka’s north, whose economy was already set back by war and poor recovery, the current economic downturn is proving debilitating. Meera Srinivasan reports on the affected people, especially women who are juggling jobs, housework and care, while persisting with their struggle for justice

Continued political commitment to combating terror financing. money laundering has led to significant progress: watchdog

The two countries will sign several agreements during his trip as Turkey looks to non-Western partners for financial support as soaring inflation bites.

China's carrier development programme is part of a massive overhaul of the People's Liberation Army under President Xi Jinping

Much of the country's northeast is underwater and the situation could worsen over the weekend with more heavy rains forecast.

Public Administration Ministry ordered all departments, public institutions and local councils to maintain skeleton services from Monday in response to the acute shortage of petrol and diesel.

A senior Biden administration official said 23 countries would be represented at the video conference, representing most of the world's major economies

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends how to use vaccines and its vaccine advisers are set to discuss the shots Friday and vote on Saturday.

The event was a “Boomers Potluck” gathering inside the church, said messages posted on the church’s Facebook page by the Rev