New York: Huma Rights Watch (HRW) in its latest statement has said that the evidence on the ground shows that Venezuelan authorities have absolutely failed to comply with UN recommendations: Torture, inhumane treatment, forced disappearances and arbitrary detentions continue. The office has reported high numbers of extrajudicial

Kabul: The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government as soon as next month, a spokesman for the group has said even as its fighters make major territorial gains in the breach left by departing foreign forces. Hundreds of Afghan security

Paris: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Indonesia oxygen emergency Indonesia is sourcing emergency oxygen for virus patients from neighbouring Singapore and calling for help from other countries as the archipelago is slammed by its deadliest wave and reports a record 728 deaths in

Kaduna: Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targetting schoolchildren and students. Heavily-armed criminal gangs in northwest and central Nigeria often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and

Madrid: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he was confident of reaching a deal to save the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran "in the coming weeks". "We think (the talks) can reach their goal," he told reporters in Madrid after a gathering of the Stockholm Initiative,

Geneva: As states across the world are trying to ramp up their vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus pandemic, COVAX has urged to allow fully vaccinated people to enter different countries, a statement issued by the World Health Organisation said. However, the WHO only suggests allowing people

Bagram: The US departed from the Bagram airfield in Afghanistan quietly at night without notifying the new commander, who discovered the exit two hours after the US left, say Afghan military officials. The United States Department of Defence announced that they had completely vacated their biggest

Panaj: The Congress in Goa termed the death of Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, in a Mumbai hospital “custodial killing” and decided to hold a protest on Tuesday at Azad Maidan in Panaji. “@INCGoa strongly condemns d custodial killing

New Delhi: A day after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asserted that the DNA of all Indians is the same, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said if Bhagwat is true to his words, he must give directions that all those BJP leaders who “harassed” innocent Muslims

New Delhi: Authorities in France have initiated a judicial probe into allegations of corruption in the sale of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft to India, according to French website Mediapart. On Friday, Mediapart, which ran a series of reports in April this year on the 2016 inter-governmental