Ankara: A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 22 former soldiers to life in jail for their roles in a failed 2016 bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the president s lawyers told AFP. The full verdict from the trial of 497 suspects in

Rawalpindi: Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that Pakistan has no hostile designs towards any country and it will keep on working towards a cooperative regional framework based on sovereign equality and mutual progress. General Bajwa said Pakistan welcomes all initiatives which can bring peace

Jakarta: Rescuers searched for dozens of people missing in remote islands of southeast Indonesia while expecting more casualties in the aftermath of a tropical cyclone that has killed at least 128. Helicopters were deployed to aid the search for survivors among 72 people reported missing so

Beirut: Daesh abducted 19 people, mostly civilians, in the centre of war-torn Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The extremists attacked regime forces in the Badia desert, before kidnapping eight policemen and 11 civilians from a small village. Syria’s state news agency SANA said

New Delhi: Despite government efforts to address abuses, a lack of accountability for official misconduct persisted at all levels, contributing to widespread impunity, said a US State Department country report on human rights practices in India. Investigations and prosecutions of individual cases took place, but lax

The head of UN Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, recalled that heavily armed terrorists had attacked a UN Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA) camp in the Kidal region, killing four Chadian peacekeepers and wounding 34 others. He said the assault was a tragedy, and an “illustration of the bravery

Cairo: The Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies (ECSS) is organizing a conference on “Human Rights: Building the Post-Pandemic World” on Thursday, 8 April, to tackle the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. The conference will be attended by high-profile ministers, officials and representatives of UN organizations. Participating

Al-Mukalla: UN-brokered peace efforts to end the war in Yemen have made no progress, with the Houthis and government squabbling over key issues such as flights from Sanaa airport, halting military operations and airstrikes, and Hodeidah seaport revenues, a senior government official told Arab News. During

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a planned reopening of the economy would take place next week, with the opening of all shops, gyms, hairdressers and outdoor hospitality areas in England. With the vaccine programme rolling out rapidly across the UK and infection numbers falling,