India, China and other BRICS countries today said they will not severe their trade ties with oil-rich Iran, which is facing US sanctions against its nuclear programme.

The issue came up for discussio

The brutal rape and death of a Russian man in police custody has prompted scores of other hesitant victims to come forward and denounce brutality they had been to frightened to report before.

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Moscow has not told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave Syria and take refuge in Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"Nobody invited him to Moscow," Lavrov said, answering a question o

As confusion mounted over the future of two Indian children in the custody of Norwegian Child Welfare Service, protests were held in different Russian cities by women whose children were taken away fr

A Russian court on Tuesday reserved its verdict till Wednesday on the ban on a translated version of the Bhagvad Gita for being ‘extremist’, a case that drew a flurry of criticism from Hindus across t

India's diplomatic efforts to resolve a controversy relating to Russian state prosecutors' bid to get a Russian interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita banned and branded extremist literature will be put

A Russian man took a woman hostage and demanded a lethal injection to die in front of TV cameras in a bid "to fight dark forces in the underworld", police said.

The incident took place Tuesday in Mar

Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw

The governor of Russia's second city Saint Petersburg signed a new law against homosexual propaganda, in defiance of protests that it discriminates against gays, the city said on Sunday.

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An elderly woman in Russia's Far East city of Khabarovsk has been found to be living in a flat alongside the body of her deceased husband, investigators said on Sunday.

On March 5, doctors arrived at