Yangon: Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators on Monday, killing six people, media and witnesses said, a day after dozens of protesters were shot dead and attackers torched several Chinese-financed factories in the city of Yangon. Supporters of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Kabul: Qatar’s foreign minister and the head of Taliban’s political office in the Gulf country have discussed latest developments in the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha. Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani met Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Sunday, amid a new diplomatic push for stabilising
New York: The UN Security Council approved a resolution allowing almost 3,000 more peacekeepers to deploy in the Central African Republic (CAR), which is still under threat from armed groups trying to overthrow the government. Drawn up by France, the resolution was adopted by 14 out
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told an emotional memorial service marking two years since the Christchurch mosque attacks that the country had "a duty" to support its Muslim community. Hundreds of people turned out for the service, held amid tight security, to remember the
The Editorial Board After nearly seven years in power, India’s premier Narendra Modi is facing his biggest political challenge yet — from protesting farmers camped out on key routes into New Delhi. Perhaps no area of the economy is as ripe for reform as agriculture. But
Ankara: - Turkey said it had established its first diplomatic contacts with Egypt since 2013 and was ready to improve relations with other rivals as it seeks to break its isolation. Ankara and Cairo had a dramatic falling out when Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi ousted the
Srinagar: Experts and political analysts have said that Sweden based V-Dem Institute has exposed the real face of so-called Indian democracy in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). In its latest report, the V-Dem institute says that India is no longer an electoral democracy but
Moscow: Russia said it backed the Taliban’s integration into a future interim government in Afghanistan, as global powers ramped up efforts to secure a peace deal and end decades of war. The Russian foreign ministry’s comments have come as a May deadline looms for the United
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen chief and senior Hurriyat leader Maulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari and President Maulana Masroor Abbas Ansari in their separate statements strongly condemned the vicious tactics of Wasim Rizvi, the ‘so-called and self-styled’ former Shia Waqf board chairman of Lucknow in
Washington: The United States may not complete the troop withdrawal in Afghanistan by May 1 as per the Doha agreement with the Afghan Taliban, reported American publication Washington Post. The administration of former US president Donald Trump had agreed in Doha in February 2020 that the