New Delhi (CNN Business)Narendra Modi swept into power in 2014 with promises to take the Indian economy to new heights and to create jobs for millions of young people.But India's prime minister faces a

KHARTOUM:  Sudanese police fired tear gas on Sunday at protesters ahead of a planned march on Parliament in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said. Security forces were earlier deployed in large numbers

BEIRUT: Lebanon used an Arab economic summit on Sunday to urge the return of refugees to safe areas of Syria after eight years of war. President Michel Aoun told the meeting Lebanon was overwhelmed

BAGHDAD: Iraqi premier Adel Abdel Mahdi visited Basra on Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and deadly protests last summer.Abdel Mahdi’s office

The Israeli military says it is carrying out overnight strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, while the Syrian Arab News State Agency or SANA is reporting that the country's air defences have shot down

People in Taiwan who are not feeling so well have, for generations, avoided going to a doctor and visited a traditional Chinese medicine shop instead. But thousands of shops have shut down in the

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken off a foreign tour as criticism grew over a brutal crackdown on protests at home, saying he wanted "to get Zimbabwe calm, stable and working again". "In light

Manila, Philippines - Nearly three million Filipinos from the country's Muslim-majority southern region are set to decide on a new law which would place them under a substantially more autonomous regional government. Monday's plebiscite on

A car bomb blast in Bogota on Thursday killed 21 people and devastated a police academy. Colombian President Ivan Duque has blamed the National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia's last remaining rebel group. He has

ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries to several nations haven’t succeeded. Another