Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned on Tuesday in protest over his government's decision to send the marines back to India to stand trial for the killing of two fishermen in Kerala. The marines issue did not just rattle India-Italy ties, but have also managed to shake up Mario Monti's government. ...
08:52 AM, Mar 27, 2013
The two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, charged with the murder of two Kerala fishermen, may be back in the country, but the drama is far from over. Italy, who agreed to send back the marines, reversing its earlier decision, still maintains they must be tried in Rome. ...
07:27 AM, Mar 24, 2013
A day after the Delhi High Court issued order for setting up a special court to try the Italian marines, who are facing murder charges in the killing case of two Kerala fishermen, the Italian Deputy Foreign Minister has claimed that the marines were lured in the Indian waters by the Kerala Police. He was speaking to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN show 'Devil's Advocate'. ...
06:22 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A diplomatic row is brewing between India and Maldives over the termination of the Male airport contract. The Maldivian government has ruled out reviving the $500 million deal with GMR and justified the scrapping by saying it was done purely on legal grounds. ...
03:41 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, while condemning the Benghazi terror attack in which the US Ambassador to Tripoli was killed along with three others, also said the transition in Libya from Muammar Gaddafi to Thomas Jefferson will take a while. ...
05:52 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Islamabad: "Terrorism was mantra of the past, terrorism is not the mantra of future," said Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday ahead of her talks with Indian counterpart SM Krishna, asking India to see the Mumbai terror attack trial "realistically" and not "emotionally". She has also indicated that the new visa agreement will be inked during Krishna's visit. Asserting that Pakistan has sent some very "serious signals" in...
05:27 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will be in Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit to formally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in Tehran in August. Salehi, who will be in Delhi as the Special Envoy of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, will hand over an invitation to the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During...
09:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Speaking to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview, Afghanistan Foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul says convincing Pakistan on terror safe havens is still the big concern. ...
03:48 PM, May 02, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Tuesday said there were no plans to change incumbent Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, with a spokesman describing reports in this regard as "baseless and speculative". A spokesman for the Prime Minister's House contradicted reports regarding the change of the Foreign Minister. He said the media had "insinuated" from Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's recent statement that a change was imminent. While welcoming President Asif...
12:23 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Dubai: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would not agree to world powers imposing pre-conditions ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks later this week, Iranian media reported on Monday. "Setting conditions before the meeting means drawing conclusions, which is completely meaningless and none of the parties will accept conditions set before the talks," the Iranian parliamentary news agency quoted him as saying. US officials say that getting...
05:07 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will meet visiting Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdul Samad Abdulla in New Delhi on Tuesday. The visit assumes significance as India will be getting a fresh update on the situation in the island-nation since Nasheed government was ousted in a coup in February. Maldives Foreign Minister arrived on his first visit abroad on Monday and is scheduled to meet Krishna for talks on Tuesday,...
10:07 AM, Apr 03, 2012
In an interview with CNN-IBN, Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Steffan de Mistura defended the alleged action of Italian marines. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that the visiting Italian minister was satisfied with the probe in the fishermen killings case. He also said that the Italian Foreign Minister also will visit the country on Tuesday for further discussion and the improvement of the bilateral ties between the two countries. "Italian minister expressed satisfaction on the progress in Kerala. The Italian Foreign Minister will arrive on...
04:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Kollam court on Thursday decided that the two Italian naval guards charged with murder of two Indian fishermen will stay on in police custody for another week. Earlier on Thursday the visiting Italian deputy Foreign Minister Steffan de Mistura said in Kerala that he was satisfied with the steps taken by India. On Wednesday, he had acknowledged the Kerala police's professional attitude during his meeting with minister...
04:53 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Steffan de Mistura on Thursday said that he is satisfied with the steps taken by India so far in the case in which two of its marines were charged with murder of two fishermen. However, he said that after the inspection of the vessel, his version will be proved right. "We are satisfied with the steps taken by India so far. After the inspection...
11:50 AM, Feb 23, 2012
United Nations: India and Pakistan are engaged in a "substantive dialogue process" that Islamabad hopes will be "uninterrupted and uninterruptable" as it looks forward to resolve all outstanding issues like the Kashmir dispute, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday. "I am happy to note that both Pakistan and India are now engaged in a substantive dialogue process. A dialogue process that we in Pakistan hope will be uninterrupted...
03:43 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has rejected the impression that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had given her an ultimatum to attack the Haqqani network, blamed for a recent attack on the US Embassy in Kabul. "There are some misperceptions about the three-and-half hour meeting I had with Secretary Clinton...There were no ultimatums from either side," Khar told reporters in New York. Pakistan has a "relationship of choice"...
02:03 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Lahore: Pakistan's young Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar might have caught New Delhi's imagination, but her depiction in the Indian media as a 'fashion icon' seemed to have irked her. Pakistan's youngest and first woman foreign minister, who returned to Pakistan on Thursday after a three-day visit to New Delhi, reacted angrily to questions pertaining to her coverage in leading Indian dailies. "You see paparazzi are every where. Besides, you...
08:10 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Pakistan's youngest Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has created a buzz on social networking sites. ...
09:23 PM, Jul 27, 2011
