Geneva: The death in custody of 84-year-old Catholic priest Stan Swamy, a renowned human rights advocate for over four decades, will forever remain "a stain on India's human rights record," a UN human rights expert said. Swamy, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, was jailed in October

Paris: Their fairy-tale marriage 40 years ago this month was dubbed the “wedding of the century”. But for Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer it would all end in tears, recriminations and tragedy, with the after-effects still being felt by the British royals today. Presidents and prime

Brussels: The European Union warned Bosnian Serb leaders against denying the massacre at Srebrenica as a genocide after they opposed a ban on genocide denial instituted by UN’s representative in Bosnia. “Revisionism and the denial of genocides are in contradiction with the most fundamental European values,”

Baghdad: A drone attack has been carried out on a military base in Iraqi Kurdistan that hosts American troops, without causing any casualties, the US-led coalition said Saturday. The attack comes with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi expected to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington

Naples: Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 rich nations have failed to agree on the wording of a key climate change commitment in their final communique, Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said. The G20 meeting was seen as a decisive step ahead

London: The next fortnight will be “crucial” in understanding whether the UK’s third wave of coronavirus is slowing down, or whether the slightly lower case rates of the past few days merely represent another “false peak”, an epidemiologist has said. For six consecutive days, there have

Dushanbe: Tajikistan said it was ready to accept up to 100,000 refugees from Afghanistan, where the Taliban has claimed huge military gains as US-led troops withdraw. The ex-Soviet Central Asian country is working with international organisations to prepare for an influx of Afghans, the deputy head

Washington: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise human rights issues with officials in India when he visits the country next week, a senior State Department official said on Friday. Dean Thompson, the department's acting assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, told reporters

Islamabad: The Taliban say they don’t want to monopolize power, but they insist there won’t be peace in Afghanistan until there is a new negotiated government in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani is removed. In an interview with The Associated Press, Taliban spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, who