On Thursday weakness remained on the domestic cotton market. Though New Year cotton futures rise on the earlier sessions Thursday, cotton that gain was essentially margins hundred over three past four weeks, there is a

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Clashes broke out in southern India for a second day Thursday as Hindu hardliners went on the rampage, seeking to enforce a general shutdown in protest at two women entering one of the country's holiest

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North Korea's top diplomat in Italy has sought asylum and gone into hiding, Seoul lawmakers told reporters after a closed-door meeting with South Korean intelligence officials on Thursday. It would mark the latest high-profile defection

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The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China. The US military

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Ankara and Baghdad would deepen cooperation against terrorism after tensions last month over Turkish air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We know the importance of working

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The United States on Thursday warned Iran against plans to send off three space launch vehicles, charging that the move would violate a UN resolution on Tehran's nuclear program. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said

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A boat packed with picnickers capsized in a river in eastern India, killing 10 revellers including eight children, officials said Thursday. The mechanised fishing boat toppled on Wednesday while it was anchored near Hukitola, an

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The UN envoy for Yemen will hold a new round of talks with Huthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government in the coming days as the United Nations said Thursday that a ceasefire in the key

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India's Supreme Court Thursday slammed authorities for their failure to rescue 15 workers trapped for 21 days in a flooded coal mine in the country's remote northeast. The so-called "rat-hole" miners have been missing since

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Somalia on Thursday told the UN Security Council not to interfere in its national affairs after expelling a UN envoy who questioned the government's decision to arrest an al-Shabaab defector running for election. Somali Ambassador

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