Category: World

AUKLAND, Nov 17 (APP): Over 37,000 Sikhs exercised their right to vote in the Khalistan Referendum held here for the creation of an independent Sikh state of Khalistan within India. The independent Punjab Referendum Commission (PRC) is conducting the referendum. Dr Bakhshish Singh Sandhu, the President of Council of Khalistan and founding member of Sikhs […]

US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will work hard to end the Russia-Ukraine war. “We’re going to work on the Middle East, and we’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It’s gotta stop. Russia and Ukraine’s gotta stop,” Trump said at a gala for the America First Policy Institute […]

An Israeli air strike on an emergency response centre in north-eastern Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 15 rescue workers, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind involving Lebanese emergency responders in the war. The strike in Douris, near the city of Baalbek, destroyed a building of the civil defence agency, […]

WASHINGTON — The future of millions of immigrants is at risk as President-elect Donald Trump vows to roll back Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a crucial program that allows people from countries like Venezuela, Haiti, and El Salvador to remain in the U.S. due to unsafe conditions in their homelands. TPS, established in 1990, was designed […]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcibly displacing nearly 1.9 million Palestinians during its war in Gaza. In a report titled “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” HRW detailed how Israeli attacks, evacuation orders, and destruction of infrastructure have […]

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (APP): Amid the ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues efforts to keep the damaged hospitals up and running and to evacuate patients requiring specialized treatment, a senior official with the UN agency said in Cairo on Monday. Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for […]

Brussels — European leaders offered their congratulations on Wednesday to Donald Trump following his sweeping victory in the U.S. presidential election, but many are bracing for potential challenges in defense, trade, and European autonomy, experts tell Al Jazeera. Trump’s stance on NATO and defense spending is expected to be a major point of tension. During […]

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — As leaders from dozens of Arab and Islamic nations gather for a summit in Saudi Arabia, there is widespread speculation about what a second Donald Trump presidency would mean for the Middle East. Gulf countries, in particular, seem to view Trump as a stabilizing force, despite concerns in Europe about his […]

GENEVA — On November 8, the United Nations strongly condemned the escalating civilian casualties in Gaza, revealing that women and children now comprise nearly 70% of the more than 8,100 fatalities it has been able to verify in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. According to the UN’s human rights office, the death toll in Gaza has […]

In a dramatic turn of events, Donald Trump has secured a remarkable victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, clinching key battleground states that propelled him over the threshold needed to claim the White House. Moments before his victory speech in Florida, Fox News officially projected Trump as the winner, though other major U.S. networks […]