Modi says India as G20 host will be inclusive and invites African Union to become permanent members

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country’s role as the G20 host this year would focus on highlighting the concerns of the developing world, and has proposed the African Union to become permanent members of the forum

UNICEF says a year on from Pakistan's catastrophic floods, millions of children still need support

The United Nations children’s agency is warning that a year on from Pakistan's catastrophic floods, millions of children still need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services

A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it

Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States

India's Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agree on efforts to de-escalate border tensions

India’s prime minister and China’s leader have agreed to intensify efforts to de-escalate tensions at the disputed border between them and bring home thousands of their troops deployed there

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Top Turkish diplomat calls for Iraq to designate PKK a terrorist organization during Baghdad visit

Turkey’s foreign minister has denounced the separatist Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which operates in northern Iraqi territory, as an enemy of both Turkey and Iraq

Turkey says UN lost neutrality after world body condemns Cyprus roadwork, assault on peacekeepers

Turkey’s foreign minister has accused the United Nations of abandoning its neutrality

The Pakistani Taliban have ambushed military convoy in northwest, killing at least 6 soldiers

Pakistan's military says militants have ambushed a military convoy in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest

Pakistan mounts efforts to rescue 6 children and 2 men trapped in a chairlift

Pakistani emergency workers using a helicopter have launched a rescue operation to try and save six children and two men trapped in a chairlift dangling 350 meters, or about 1,150 feet, above ground in the country's northwest

The first 2 children are rescued from a cable car dangling hundreds of feet in the air in Pakistan

An official says military commandos have rescued two children stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of meters (feet) above the ground in a remote part of Pakistan