Maritime ruling upsets Indian negotiators

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders nominated Jean-Claude Juncker for their bloc's most powerful job on Friday over the fierce objections of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said the decision would make it harder for him to keep Britain in ...

Colombo is witnessing anti-India demonstrations in an unprecedented scale. Chauvinist elements among the Sinhalese demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission, shouted slogans against prime minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu chief minister ...

THE outcome of president Mahinda Rajapaksa's meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been a letdown to the Sri Lankan government. There was a general expectation in Sri Lanka, fuelled by the optimism of government leaders that a new era ...

Download World Fastest Mobile Browser Home » Buzz Any commentary on the sticky subject of Hindu-Muslim relations is fraught with the danger of hyperbole. I will go right ahead and say it. The popular television game show Kaun Banega Crorepati ...

The United States and the 28-member European Union (EU) have assiduously promoted and vigourously preached one of the basic tenets of Western multi-party democracy: majority rules. But at the United Nations, the 29 member states have frequently ...

But when I learned that the museum would be newly opened on a planned trip to New York, I bought tickets immediately. I couldn't imagine skipping any part of this emotional narrative, which had been in the works for more than a decade. I toured the ...

The United States and the EU have warned they would not cooperate with an intergovernmental working group (IGWG) which is to be established to lay down ground rules for negotiating a proposed treaty to prevent human rights abuses by transnational ...

One minute it's the continuing World War 1 commemorations, the next it's the anniversary of D-Day, and World War 2. When will it stop? To celebrate heroic fighting is one thing, but war itself should never be celebrated. Neither should those who ...

Imagine what would happen if circumstances would jive — for good or bad New year's day 2015 bought no cheer to the world. If we had known, if only we had known… who would have thought that 2014, which began so well, ended so ...