Category: International

New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The daughters of Jammu and Kashmir are making huge strides across fields by breaking all barriers, President Draupadi Murmu said on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Sunday. The President honoured a few of them on Sunday as she presented the National Awards for […]

BANGKOK: The Myanmar junta handed out at least seven more death sentences this week, taking the tally of those on death row to 139, according to the United Nations. A junta spokesperson did not respond to calls from outside Myanmar seeking confirmation of the latest death sentences. The United Nations accused it of using capital […]

The Foreign Ministry has expressed its “deep concern” for the recent escalation of violence and civilian casualties in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. “We strongly condemn the summary executions,” the Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 3. Ankara called on the Israeli authorities to take the necessary measures to prevent further escalation of tension and […]

Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, local media said on Sunday. “Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary” and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as […]

The UN Security Council issued a press statement condemning in “the strongest terms” Friday’s terrorist attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul that targeted the Head of the Mission and called for ensuring the safety of diplomatic and consular premises. The 15-member Council, acting by consensus, also wished a speedy and full recovery to the […]

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday added Pakistan, China and Latin American adversaries Cuba and Nicaragua, among others, to a blacklist on international religious freedom, opening the path to potential sanctions. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Wagner Group was being designated due to involvement in abuses in the Central African Republic, where nearly […]

Former prime minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that he had hoped the new military leadership would have “immediately disassociated” itself from the eight months of the previous army chief’s “action against the PTI” as he criticised the arrest of party Senator Azam Swati. Swati was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on November […]

India’s Kerala state will proceed “no matter what” with a $900 million port project and is open to deploying federal police if needed to protect it from protesters blocking construction, a government minister told Reuters on Saturday. The local fishing community, led by Catholic priests, has blocked construction of Vizhinjam port by Adani Group for […]

PALMDALE: The United States on Friday unveiled the B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board. The slickly choreographed ceremony at B-21 manufacturer Northrop Grumman’s facility in Palmdale, California opened with the US national anthem as older […]

Women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, in what a rights group called a “rare” move in the staunchly conservative southeastern region. Online videos showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital Zahedan holding banners that declared “Woman, life, freedom” — one of the […]