The International Monetary Fund will provide Ukraine with $17.5 billion in funding over the next four years, Managing Director  Christine Lagarde said in Brussels on Thursday. The $17.5 billion IMF package along with additional resources from the international...

(Reuters) - Germany , France, Russia and Ukraine agreed a deal that offers a "glimmer of hope" for an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine after marathon overnight talks. But big hurdles remained on the path to peace and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the sponsors of the...

Unidentified militants set ablaze a girls’ school in Afghanistan`s eastern Kunar province Tuesday night, police said. According to Daoud Barakzai, an officer at the provincial police department, militants broke into a school in Sawan, a remote village of Dangam district,...

 Hundreds of nationalist Buddhists took to the streets of Yangon on Wednesday to protest a government decision that could allow Rohingya Muslims to vote in a constitutional referendum. The Arakan Youth Organisation and the Myanmar National Network...