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New Delhi (Agency): Schoolgirls in France will be banned from wearing the abaya – a full-length Islamic robe – in state schools starting from September, the education minister announced on...

New Delhi (Agency): FIFA has suspended Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales for 90 days while continuing to investigate the allegedly forced kiss that he planted on star...

New Delhi (Agency): Bhutan, in the Himalayas, is nestled in a strategically sensitive geographical position between two Asian superpowers, India and China. Over the years, Delhi has been offering Thimphu...

Since its inception in 2009 as BRIC, the Brazil-Russia-India-China coalition which went on to include South Africa in 2010 to become BRICS, has been about inclusion and assertion of the...

New Delhi (Agency): As he climbed Mount Everest’s Lhotse ice wall, Sameer Nicholas Patham struggled to breathe despite his supplementary oxygen. Here, where temperatures drop to -30° Celsius and the...

New Delhi (Agency): A potential sale of storied soccer club Manchester United to a member of Qatar’s ruling family could take the Manchester derby to new heights. The sale also...

New Delhi (Agency): The Central African Republic’s constitutional court has approved the results of a July referendum, extending its presidential term from five to seven years and enabling the head...

New Delhi (Agency): After the world’s second largest economy emerged from years of Covid-19 restrictions in January and opened up again, it was anticipated to take the year by storm....

New Delhi (Agency): Expansion of the BRICS and mutually accelerated trade top the agenda of the 15thBRICS Summit 2023 (August 22-24) in the backdrop of the internal and external challenges...

SYDNEY (IPS) - Qur’an burning has become a symbol of intolerance and “Islamophobia”, especially in some Western countries. Following the public burning of a Quran in front of Stockholm’s largest...

ACCRA (IPS) - The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence against women, but when Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the...

New Delhi (Agency): Every country should have the same opportunity to become a key global player to help reduce the dominance of other nations or blocs, Uganda’s ambassador to South...