Five months after an American dentist caused an international furore by killing Cecil, a famed lion which lived in Zimbabwe, the US plans to extend its endangered species protection to lions in Africa.   Lions in southern and eastern Africa would be classified as threatened by the US...

In what constitutes the continent’s biggest wave of mass migration since the aftermath of the second world war, more than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, says that International Organization for Migration.   The IOM said that till 21 December,...

The Islamic State is seeking to establish a “distant caliphate” in Indonesia, “either directly or through surrogates”, believes the Australian attorney-general.   Isis “has identified Indonesia as a location of its ambitions”, said George Brandis, in comments that were made to the Australian...

Taking a tough stand against alleged corrupt practices, Fifa banned Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini from football for eight years.   While this is considered to a career ending blow for the former, it certainly would significantly delay...

Saudi initiates a new coalition to fight terrorism, while many countries form part of the member’s list as according to them Islam forbids the “destruction”. Saudi Arabia informed that thirty four countries are ready to create a new "Islamic military alliance" in an attempt to “fight terrorism”,...

As per a AP poll, although Americans do not prefer a long drawn bloody fight, they do however prefer a tough response to the antics of this terrorist group. Facing repeated terror attacks have made a large number of Americans believe that sending “US ground troops to fight the Islamic State” is the...

Head of the Bundesbank Carl-Ludwig Thiele reported that gold reserves repatriation in Germany goes according to plan, and half of all German gold will be stored in the country by 2020. In total for this period, 674 tons of gold will be transferred to Germany from the United States, Britain and...

The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, a leading thinktank claims that bore than half of the rebel fighters in Syria who are opposing President Bashar al-Assad are sympathetic to Islamic State views.   The global threat from jihadi groups would not be eliminated with the efforts to...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that the deaths from drug overdoses have surged across the US to record levels.   The deaths in the US in 2014 due to drug overdose reached more than 47.000 which was much more than the number of people killed in car accidents and up 7%...