Geneva: Economic sanctions are causing massive suffering in crisis-wracked Afghanistan, a top Red Cross official said Monday, describing the situations as "infuriating". "I am livid," Dominik Stillhart, operations director at the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in a statement at the end of a

Washington: The United States must overhaul its domestic legislative framework to ensure the rights of minorities, a UN-mandated expert said  adding that measures taken by some states could undermine democracy. Fernand de Varennes, the United Nations special rapporteur for minority rights, has just completed a two-week

Washington DC: US President Joe Biden intends to run for re-election in 2024, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. Biden, 79, has suffered a dip in his job approval ratings in recent months, leading some Democrats to wonder whether he might not seek another four-year

Miami: The US Justice Department is expected to pay $130 million to the families of victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting in Florida because the FBI failed to investigate two tip-offs about the gunman who went on kill 17 people at the high school, the

Ihavandhoo: Fishermen from Ihavandhoo who had sighted the Indian vessels had reported their activity to the relevant authorities. A fisherman from Ihavandhoo told The Maldives Journal that they had reported the vessels to the Coast Guard and the Ihavandhoo Council. He said that the Coast

Srinagar: The United Nations have strongly criticised the arrest of a prominent activist in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) on terror charges, saying he is “not a terrorist”. Khurram Parvez was arrested late on Monday by India's federal National Investigation Agency (NIA), an Indian official briefed on

Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday has categorically rejected the baseless Indian claims that a Pakistani F-16 aircraft was shot down by an Indian pilot before he was captured by Pakistan in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in February 2019. Per a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign

Islamabad: The Foreign Office Indian claims about the seizure of a potentially radioactive consignment on board a vessel that originated from Karachi, and clarified it contained empty containers that had previously been used for shipping fuel for K-2 and K-3 Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). “The reporting

Male: The motion submitted by MP Ahmed Usham (Vilimalé) requesting that copies of the classified military agreements signed with India be disclosed to members of the Parliament Committee on National Security Services was rejected by the Committee. The Committee, where the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party has