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Sources said that the US opposition to aspects of the reform process can be perceived as a "duplicity" since Obama has reaffirmed his support for a reformed UNSC with India as a permanent member.

Two people were wounded in gunfire at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown near where the unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white office.

A racially mixed crowd of young and old, some pushing children in strollers, turned out for a day of commemorative events in this mostly black St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was gunned down on Aug. 9, 2014.

The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft U.N. resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria in order to bring them to justice, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

The world's only surviving panda triplets celebrated their first birthday in a zoo in southern China.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to San Francisco in the last week of September after attending the 70th annual session of UN General Assembly in New York, becoming the fourth Indian Premier to visit US' West Coast.

Chinese shares fell for a fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, but the declines were modest as Beijing's efforts to prop up values appeared to have brought a measure of stability to its unruly stock market.

British Indian MP Keith Vaz on Tuesday called for the world-famous 'Koh-i-Noor' diamond to be returned to India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's UK visit in November.

The Saudi-led coalition launched new airstrikes in at least two Yemeni provinces on Monday, piercing a humanitarian pause that started at midnight the previous day, security officials said.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday greeted the government and people of Peru on the country's National Day on July 28.

China's factory sector contracted by the most in 15 months in July as shrinking orders depressed output, a preliminary private survey showed on Friday, a worse-than-expected result that comes on the heels of a stock market crash which began in June.

Pakistan on Wednesday deployed military choppers and boats for relief and rescue operations in the flood-hit northern region, where monsoon rains and flash floods have affected 300,000 people and washed away villages.

Bill and Melinda Gates are the world's wealthiest couple with a combined net worth of USD 85.7 billion, a report said on Wednesday.

China's first consumer four-wing drone 'Transdrone A4' which has variable structure and can be folded like paper will soon be released in Beijing.

Greece has repaid its arrears to the International Monetary Fund.

RMB is now the world's second trade-finance currency, fifth payment currency, and sixth foreign-exchange currency, said a report by Renmin University of China.