The defeat of the FN was down to mass tactical voting, an increase in turnout and warnings by the left that what it called the “anti-semitic and racist” party would bring France to its knees. All this combined to stop the FN translating its huge first-round ....

“Countries in Asia have been developing infrastructure to support their further development,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a media briefing here. He was responding to a question about India-Japan agreement to build a bullet train corri ....

The talks were difficult and sometimes teetered on the brink of collapse. Every country made compromises to get the deal done, but some got more than others by the time the gavel dropped on Saturday. SMALL ISLANDS The tiniest countries were arguably the biggest wi ....

 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting is set to showcase growing alignment between China and Russia, through closer integration of the Beijing-marshalled Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) with the Moscow-driven Eurasian Economic Union (EEAU), steered by a 1 ....

The cartoon, by veteran Bill Leak, who is known for his often offensive caricatures, showed poor and thin Indians being forced to eat solar panels that were provided by the UN, and was criticised by newspapers worldwide. Entitled “Aid a la mode”, the cartoon ....

Ministers from the WTO’s 162 member countries are meeting at the Kenyan capital during December 15-18 for negotiations aimed at a deal to liberalise global trade. Farm lobbies in the rich world have been, for decades, shaping the discourse and determining the d ....

AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday expelled former Director-General of Police R. Natraj from the party. She asked party cadres not to have any truck with him as he had “worked against the interests of the party and brought disrepute&rdq ....

Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had nothing to do with the absence of Mr. Chandy, and even referred to a letter written by the Kerala government stating that he wo ....

“The new dialogue, we sincerely hope, marks a new beginning also for peace and development in the whole region,” she said. India had emphasised the need to speed up the judicial process in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack by militants from the neighbouring coun ....

The rains lashed relentlessly as rivers swelled, breached banks and the Chembarambakkam reservoir was opened without much warning. As the surge swept through the city, it swallowed everything in the way — cars, bridges, airports, hospitals, hutments and devoure ....