Dialogue between India and Pakistan has always been difficult precisely because it was never driven purely by bilateral calculations.

Odai Shanah was among dozens of children who had to huddle in classrooms when deadly gunfire erupted at the mosque where they attend school.

Rights group warns that the island’s Indigenous groups face “genocide in the name of ‘mega-development’”.

The drones are designed to disable the attacker by flying right into him or her or spraying them with pepper gel.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump met in Beijing on Thursday for high-stakes talks.

Shipment records show that millions of dollars worth of tapentadol tablets are still being exported from India to west Africa every month, despite New Delhi vowing to crack down on the trade.

Trump welcomed at the opulent Great Hall of the People with military band fanfare, a gun salute and a host of schoolchildren jumping and chanting “welcome!”.

“We're just excited to host them here, and we're going to give them a positive experience,” says director of the Kino Sports Complex.

Condoms, oral pills, emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices and injectables are unavailable at around a third of the country’s 64 districts, according to government figures for May.

Tehran understands that by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, it has a major strategic lever.

In parametric insurance, payouts are triggered automatically by heavy rain, high heat or even air pollution.

Initial estimates suggest work at Golestan Palace alone could cost around $1.7 million; 140 culturally and historically significant locations across Iran affected by war.