New Delhi: Protesting Indian farmers have announced a series of events from February 23-27 to further intensify their agitation against the new agricultural laws as they accused the government of adopting “repressive” measures against them. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is spearheading the protests, told

Yangoon: Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister travelled to Thailand on Wednesday, a Thai government source said, as Myanmar’s neighbours intensified efforts to resolve a crisis that began when its army seized power in a Feb. 1 coup. The minister, Wunna Maung Lwin, arrived for talks on diplomatic

Colombo: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has said that the long standing issue of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) can only be resolved through negotiations. While addressing a trade and investment conference, the premier said that Pakistan is willing to resolve all the conflicts

New York: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government postponed plans for a national student examination on cows that critics said used spurious claims and substituted religion for science, according to The New York Times. The report further stated that Indian students were preparing hard

Mandalay: Catholic nuns, seminarians and laypeople have marched on the streets to pray for peace as pro-democracy protests intensify in Myanmar three weeks after the Feb. 1 coup. Nearly 1,000 Catholics, mostly young people, marched on the streets of Yangon on Feb. 21 while hundreds were

Vatican City: The Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, has called on the United Nations to “rediscover the foundation of human rights, in order to implement them in an authentic fashion”, as the world continues to take measures to combat the

Kabul: The United Nations says civilian casualties in Afghanistan escalated sharply after peace talks began last year, calling for a ceasefire as negotiators met for the first time after weeks of inaction. US-brokered peace talks began in September but progress has since slowed and violence has

Goma: Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people were killed on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern Congo, Italy’s foreign ministry and park authorities said. The convoy was attacked at around 10:15 a.m. (0815 GMT) during

United Nations: The UN Deputy Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix will offer an update on the UN´s work in Mali and the Central African Republic. The high-ranking official will meet with the press to talk about various peacekeeping-related issues, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the