Honiara: Fiji will deploy 50 troops to an Australian-led peacekeeping force in the Solomon Islands following anti-government rioting that razed parts of the capital Honiara, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said Monday. The Fijian contingent will lift the number of peacekeepers to about 200 troops and police

Male: The Ihavandhoo Island Council has stated that Indian fishing vessels engage in illegal fishing within Maldivian borders with the use of nets, and that the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) had not taken any action even after they had been notified. Fishermen from Ihavandhoo (Haa

Imphal: Following an incident that led to the killing of a Myanmar national and grievous injuries to seven others in Tamu town, about 10 km inside the neighbouring country, India has beefed up security measures to ensure there is no massive influx of foreign nationals. The

London: South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It’s unclear where the new variant first emerged, but scientists in South Africa first

Addis Ababa: The UN s World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the number of people requiring food aid in war-torn northern Ethiopia had surged to more than nine million. International alarm is mounting about the escalating conflict in Africa s second most populous country, with

London: Rejecting the Indian media reports, Scotland Yard has clarified that it did not raid the West London office of the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ). The UK police issued the clarification after several Indian media organizations started propaganda that detectives of the metropolitan police had carried

Islamabad: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights unanimously passed three important bills related to the rights of children while the committee did not pass Women’s workplace harassment bill due to a need for further deliberation. A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights

Brussels: Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Russia that any attempt to invade Ukraine would have costs, as concern mounts about a Russian military build-up near its former Soviet neighbour’s borders. Ukraine says Moscow kept about 90,000 troops near their common border following massive war games in

Islamabad: Condemning the highly provocative and irresponsible remarks made by the chief of India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat of undoing the partition, Pakistan has said that this "dangerous mindset aims to completely marginalize and dispossess the minorities in India". In a statement, Bhagwat had