Martti Ahtisaari: Finnish Nobel Peace laureate and former president dies at 86Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on conflict resolution, has died at the age of 86. Ah...
16 Oct, 2023, 01.52 PM IST
Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, dies at 84Albright, a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 19...
24 Mar, 2022, 12.30 AM IST
Explainer: Who's a war criminal, and who gets to decide?The White House had been avoiding applying the designation to Putin, saying it requires investigation and an international determination. A...
17 Mar, 2022, 07.21 PM IST
Putin's war on Ukraine is about ethnicity and empireIn waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been driven by a different concept, ethno-nationalism. It is an idea of na...
17 Mar, 2022, 04.37 PM IST
Explainer: Who's a war criminal, and who gets to decide?The White House had been avoiding applying the designation to Putin, saying it requires investigation and an international determination. A...
17 Mar, 2022, 11.40 AM IST
'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic faces final genocide verdictFootage from the time showed him handing out sweets to children before they and the women of Srebrenica were taken away by bus, while the m...
08 Jun, 2021, 04.14 PM IST
Radovan Karadzic: War criminal with many facesThe former Bosnian Serb leader was finally jailed for life in 2019 for his role in Bosnia's 1990s inter-ethnic war, which left 100,000 peop...
13 May, 2021, 03.17 PM IST
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and human rights activist, dead at 93Former U.S. Attorney General Clark, one of the architects of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968, died on F...
11 Apr, 2021, 08.23 AM IST
Literature Nobel awarded to American Louise Gluck for 'unmistakable poetic voice'; 16th woman to be fetedThe 77-year-old Yale professor beat Murakami and Margaret Atwood.
08 Oct, 2020, 05.35 PM IST
View: Is anti-India prejudice hardwired into NYT’s DNA?Pakistan continually raises the nuclear bogey to attract world attention.
03 Sep, 2019, 10.45 AM IST
Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khruschev, Slobodan Milosevic, Yahya Khan enter ParliamentFor many MPs, the larger worry wasn’t autocracy but the throw back to Soviet Union and Yugoslavia during a budget session meant to debate r...
04 Mar, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Crisis in Europe echoes split in Balkan statesAt both European level and in three country cases, northerners are fed up with subsidising, as they see it, lazy and spendthrift southerner...
28 Nov, 2012, 05.39 AM IST
- China's new stealth fighter may use US technology
Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority _ and...
23 Jan, 2011, 03.08 PM IST
- Pak media retract fake WikiLeaks story lambasting India
On Friday The News wrote that "on further inquiries, we learnt from our sources that the story was dubious and may have been planted".
10 Dec, 2010, 12.28 PM IST
- Chess legend Bobby Fischer dies
Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said on Friday.
19 Jan, 2008, 12.56 AM IST
- UN campaigns to recover stolen assets worth trillions
The United Nations has launched a worldwide campaign to recover cross-border flow of global assets estimated at up to $1.6 trillion a year ...
18 Sep, 2007, 11.08 AM IST
- JAT discusses deal with Aeroflot, AI
Air India has been conducting a survey of JAT Airways, seeking to build on existing cooperation with it.
14 Jun, 2007, 03.30 PM IST