The deaths within days of one another, in September, of the former ambassadors, K.P.S. Menon, and Satyabrata Pal, are extinguishings. But of much more than of individual lamps. Being the kind of perso...

Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin, has lost one third of its seats in the Moscow parliament, near complete data cited by Russian news agencies showed on Monda...

The Kremlin lauded two Russian pilots as heroes and said they would be handed state awards after they landed an airliner carrying 233 people in a cornfield outside Moscow after striking a flock of bir...

From an all-access pass to the highly classified Soviet archives to Simon, who?One of the most widely read historians of the time, Simon Sebag Montefiore, described in Calcutta on Wednesday his experi...

Syria's military announced on Friday that it has taken control of the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened an offensive.The announcement was quickly welcomed by the Kre...

The White House has formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Friday, returning to an idea that was put on hold in July amid ang...