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India will promote fundamental values like human rights and development and reinforce multilateralism, while underlining the need for greater cooperation in the Nations Security Council (UNSC), India's envoy to the United Nations has said as the country begins its two-year tenure in the powerful organ of the world body on Friday.

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Indian team walked out a meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization hosted by Russia after Pakistan used a doctored map as a background for its representative. The map showed Indian territories as part of Pakistan. The Indian side's move was a protest against Pakistan's blatant violation of norms, the...

India is heaven for Muslims and their social, economic and religious rights are secure, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today, in response to a statement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on what it called "Islamophobia" in the country.

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of "the danger of authoritarian populism" sweeping many Western democracies and cautioned against backsliding on basic freedoms.

Five people, including two Italian reporters, went on trial in the Vatican today, to outrage from rights' groups, on charges arising from publication of books in which the Holy See was portrayed as mired in mismanagement and corruption.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed "grave concern" to his Russian counterpart on Thursday over a sharp rise in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate ceasefire, the State Department said.

Russia on Wednesday slammed Finland for refusing parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin a visa, the first time he has been denied entry to the European Union after being put on a blacklist over Ukraine.

Ukraine announced the completion of an initial phase of military pullback in east Ukraine today as isolated clashes rattled a shaky truce with pro-Russian rebels and observers warned the country was at a "crossroads".

Ukrainian forces and rebel separatists traded dozens of prisoners in a frontline eastern town on Saturday, the first clear sign of progress for an otherwise shaky truce signed a week ago.

The United States, on Saturday, warned that it could escalate sanctions on Russia after rebels overran a key Ukrainian town in violation of a truce, leaving a reported 179 government soldiers dead over a month of fighting.

The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on Thursday jointly urged a tattered truce in east Ukraine be restored and condemned breaches in recent days, according to official accounts of a four-way telephone call.

World powers voiced concern over a shaky truce in Ukraine that went into a third day today with no sign of a let-up in fighting for a key eastern town and no pull-back of heavy weapons from the frontline.

13 government soldiers and at least as many civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict after the collapse of peace talks, Kiev authorities said.

French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz today called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the country's east.

The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was rocked by blasts on Saturday, even as government forces and pro-Russian separatists prepared to create a buffer zone to separate the warring sides.

India will promote fundamental values like human rights and development and reinforce multilateralism, while underlining the need for greater cooperation in the Nations Security Council (UNSC), India's envoy to the United Nations has said as the country begins its two-year tenure in the powerful organ of the world body on Friday.

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Indian team walked out a meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization hosted by Russia after Pakistan used a doctored map as a background for its representative. The map showed Indian territories as part of Pakistan. The Indian side's move was a protest against Pakistan's blatant violation of norms, the...

India is heaven for Muslims and their social, economic and religious rights are secure, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today, in response to a statement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on what it called "Islamophobia" in the country.

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of "the danger of authoritarian populism" sweeping many Western democracies and cautioned against backsliding on basic freedoms.

Five people, including two Italian reporters, went on trial in the Vatican today, to outrage from rights' groups, on charges arising from publication of books in which the Holy See was portrayed as mired in mismanagement and corruption.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed "grave concern" to his Russian counterpart on Thursday over a sharp rise in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate ceasefire, the State Department said.

Russia on Wednesday slammed Finland for refusing parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin a visa, the first time he has been denied entry to the European Union after being put on a blacklist over Ukraine.

Ukraine announced the completion of an initial phase of military pullback in east Ukraine today as isolated clashes rattled a shaky truce with pro-Russian rebels and observers warned the country was at a "crossroads".

Ukrainian forces and rebel separatists traded dozens of prisoners in a frontline eastern town on Saturday, the first clear sign of progress for an otherwise shaky truce signed a week ago.

The United States, on Saturday, warned that it could escalate sanctions on Russia after rebels overran a key Ukrainian town in violation of a truce, leaving a reported 179 government soldiers dead over a month of fighting.

The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on Thursday jointly urged a tattered truce in east Ukraine be restored and condemned breaches in recent days, according to official accounts of a four-way telephone call.

World powers voiced concern over a shaky truce in Ukraine that went into a third day today with no sign of a let-up in fighting for a key eastern town and no pull-back of heavy weapons from the frontline.

13 government soldiers and at least as many civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict after the collapse of peace talks, Kiev authorities said.

French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz today called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the country's east.

The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was rocked by blasts on Saturday, even as government forces and pro-Russian separatists prepared to create a buffer zone to separate the warring sides.