Juba: Sudan’s transitional government and the main rebel group have kicked off a new round of peace talks, officials have said, the latest effort to end a decades-long conflict in the East African country. South Sudan President Salva Kiir is hosting the talks between the Sudanese
United Nations: There is a 40% chance of the world temporarily hitting the 1.5C temperature rise threshold in one of the next five years, the UN weather agency warns in a new report issued on Thursday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said there was a 40%
Rana Ayyub The disturbing video went viral across India in a matter of hours: Scores of bodies, feared to be of covid-19 victims, washed up on the shores of the holy Ganges River in the northeastern state of Bihar. The villagers were surprised and suspected the
New York: Israel's recent barrage of deadly air strikes on Gaza might be war crimes, the UN rights chief said on Thursday, adding she had seen no evidence the attacked buildings were used for military purposes. Addressing a special session of the United Nations Human Rights
Islamabad: United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Volkan Bozkir — who arrived in Islamabad a day earlier — met Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday. The situation in Palestine and occupied Kashmir, the Afghan peace process and matters of mutual
Dublin: The Irish parliament has passed a parliamentary motion condemning the "de facto annexation" of Palestinian land by Israeli authorities. The motion, tabled by the opposition Sinn Fein party, passed after receiving cross-party support. It is the first European Union country to use the phrase in relation
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s inept handling of the COVID pandemic led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and officials even feared he would ask to be injected with the virus on television to show it was benign, his former chief adviser
New Delhi: The Indian Civil Society has lambasted the Narendra Modi-led New Delhi regime for its criminal negligence amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that the Indian government has lost its credibility to represent the people of India, and called for strong global political commitment to
New Delhi: Nationwide demonstrations were held by farmers on Wednesday burning the effigies of the Modi government and hoisting black flags on their rooftops and vehicles to mark six months of their sit-in at Delhi borders seeking withdrawal of three farms laws and guarantee for
Lucknow: All 32-year-old Yasser Arafat had wanted to do on the night of May 19 when he posted a pro-Palestine image and comment on his social media page was display the courage with which residents of the battered city of Gaza were standing up to