(Reuters) - India is holding the world's biggest election starting this month, with nearly 1 billion people eligible to vote and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the pole position. WHAT IS IT? Elections to the 543 contested seats in the lower ...

(Reuters) - India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, set off on the world's largest electoral exercise on Friday. The country has more than 2,500 political parties but just 10 of them hold 86% of all seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late on Thursday, citing a U.S. official. Over the weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in a retaliatory strike after a suspected Israeli strike ...

By Krishna N. Das (Reuters) - Nearly 1 billion Indians will be eligible to vote in the world's biggest election starting this month. Opinion polls predict an easy win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),which ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to discuss Iran's actions in the Middle East, other regional threats and aid into Gaza, the Pentagon said in ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's aviation regulator said on Friday it had opened new air routes to the Chinese cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou, routes which are situated very close to the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen and Matsu, a move likely to ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially recognized two more Indigenous territories on Thursday, but said he decided not to sign off on four others because they still need to be cleared by people currently ...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -More than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Wednesday on the campus of Columbia University after its president authorized New York police to clear an encampment set up by students demonstrating against ...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Maine lawmakers on Thursday sent a draft of gun safety measures to the governor to sign into law, fulfilling a promise to take swift action designed to prevent mass shootings such as a rampage last year that killed 18 ...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a ...