The sanctions are designed to dissuade other nations from purchasing Iranian oil, which brings in a huge proportion of Iran's revenue

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has swiftly and categorically pointed the finger of blame at Tehran

Messi is Argentina's all-time top scorer with 67 goals, and is not far from becoming their most capped player

China has suggested students travelling to the United States may face heightened risks

On 6 June, the government cleared 40 hectares (99 acres) of the 1,300 hectare forest to build a zoo, complete with a night safari

It was early in 2014 when TV news networks trumpeted a major victory in the war against the Pakistani Taliban 

Using data from 82 countries, the in-depth study brings the overall number estimated child marriages to 765 million, Unicef revealed

Many veteran climbers, such as expert mountaineer and writer Alan Arnette, have also warned of the risks of tourists with little or no training attempting to scale huge peaks such as Everest

The new UK prime minister will be hungry to make his or her name, to go down in history books as the one who "solved Brexit"

Life was about changes and adjusting oneself with them, writes Tulip Chowdhury

The biggest criticism of Mr Modi during his first term was his government's failure to generate employment

The rates on products, including wine and meat, will rise from between 5 and 10% to as much as 25%

When bombs planted in churches and hotels killed more than 200 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, few had realised that the nation had a problem with Islamist militancy

The relations between the two countries were based on reciprocity

After assuming power in 2009, the government formulated a roadmap for the power and energy sector with an aim to bring every citizen under electricity facility by 2021

It is also a job that is hard to automate successfully

The cars, with their red and white emergency lights on, will be parked right outside the mosques and stay put while worshippers go in and offer prayers

Millions of Bangladeshis who usually travel overseas can find the city a new destination for quenching their travel thirst

The US president has said Mr Abe nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize - a claim that Tokyo neither confirmed nor denied

The economic record for Mr Modi's first term in office is mixed

BJP's Smriti Irani defeated the Congress chief and sitting MP Rahul Gandhi by a margin of 55,120 votes

India's regional parties must now rethink their strategies and offer a more compelling economic and social vision

Narendra Modi, who is originally from Gujarat, chose Uttar Pradesh to make his debut as an MP in 2014 when he contested from the ancient city of Varanasi

Japanese names got out of step with their neighbours in the 19th century amid the growing influence of Western culture

Karaoke is popular in China and Beijing knows that songs are an effective way of conveying official thinking to young people

Prime Minister Modi and his BJP party, like US President Donald Trump, have focused on borders to shape a particular vision of India's future

The Prime Minister has visited the Himalayan shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva multiple times since taking office

A majority of Indians want nutritious food, affordable clothing and housing, health and education, which really should be the leading indicators of economic growth

Mr Kizer is a part of the New Wave Feminists group in Austin, Texas, that seeks to promote women's rights as a means of making abortion eventually "unthinkable and unnecessary"

The second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door

Australian politics is known to be rambunctious, with plain speaking considered a national trait

The job comes with a staff of more than 30,000, a seat at summits of EU leaders and the right to propose new European laws

Christian women - who come from a mostly poor and marginalised community - are seen to be particularly targeted by traffickers

More than a month since Sudan's long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was arrested by the military, crowds are still camped out - day and night 

Most of the men here work as farmers or labourers, earning a fraction of what the women can make as domestic workers or nannies overseas

Now that AAP and the Congress have failed to forge an alliance, the fight for the seven seats, presently held by the BJP, will be triangula

More than 10.17 crore voters will cast their votes to decided the fate of 979 candidates at 1.13 lakh polling stations

The last of the four differences between the conceptualization of the state in China and the West is regarding how they see their roles in the world

Political in-fighting and factionalism going all the way to the top of the Sri Lankan government is part of the reason warnings went unheeded