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United Nations, Feb 27: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel next week to Geneva and Madrid and then to Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Algeria, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here. "He will also designate the West-Eastern Divan…

New York, Jan 19: In a bid to answer critics that it has not done enough to tackle online racist and hate speech at a time when Europe is going through a refugee crisis, Facebook has started a new initiative to counter extremist posts on…

Rome, Dec 30: Italy's recovery has outstripped expectations this year and the economy is growing, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said. Renzi told a press conference here on Tuesday that "2015 has gone better than 2014 and better than the…

Kochi, Nov 16: S.S. Rajamouli's magnum opus "Baahubali", which has emerged as one of the biggest Indian blockbusters, has now caught the attention of international buyers, so much so that the distributors in Europe are fighting for its…

Kolkata, Nov 6: Steel major Tata Steel on Thursday posted an increase of near 22 percent in its net profit at Rs.1,529 crore for the quarter ended September 30 this year although its turnover headed southwards by 18 percent.…

European foreign and interior ministers, at a joint meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, presented a 10-point plan on the immediate actions to be taken in response to the migrant crisis after a series of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.…

Ukraine troops and Pro-Russia rebels have signed a comprehensive peace accord on Friday, and swap hundreds of prisoners on the occasion. The move came after the initial talks meditated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian…