United Nations: UN authorization of cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria without Damascus s agreement will stop, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations said without giving a timeframe. "It is now a day-to-day operation and eventually it will be closed," Vassily Nebenzia told reporters when asked
The Hague: Two former Serbian spy chiefs in Slobodan Milosevic’s regime were convicted after a retrial by a UN court of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1990s Balkans conflict. Jovica Stanisic, 70, the former head of Serbia’s state security service, and his deputy
Yangon: Myanmar authorities released more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons across the country including local journalists jailed after reporting critically on the junta’s bloody crackdown. Myanmar has been rocked by massive protests and a brutal military response since the February coup that ousted Aung San
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said that Russia could have sunk a British warship that it accused of illegally entering its territorial waters without starting World War Three and accused Washington of a role in the "provocation". Tensions between Moscow and London soared last week after Russia
United Nations: Pakistan has reaffirmed its support to zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct at a high-level meeting this week on strengthening the conduct of UN peacekeeping personnel. "Protectors of vulnerable, under no circumstances, can be allowed to become the abusers," Ambassador Aamir Khan, acting Pakistani
Beijing: President Xi Jinping hailed China s "irreversible" course from humiliated colony to great power at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, in a speech reaching deep into history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of his nation s
New Delhi: A report was filed to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) against Twitter’s head in India, Manish Maheshwari, calling the publication of the distorted map “an act of treason”. The error was a sensitive one. The state of Jammu and Kashmir
Stuart Chambers Although anti-Muslim sentiments certainly existed long before 2001, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the response to them intensified anti-Muslim tropes, namely the presumption that Islam is inherently violent or that Muslims have a propensity for terrorism. Since 9/11, specific individuals have turned Islamophobia
Sao Paulo: The Brazilian government has suspended its contract to import 20 million doses of the vaccine in a $300-million deal with the Indian company. This is a major blow to Bharat Biotech’s plan to market Covaxin abroad, Brazil’s minister of health Marcelo Queiroga announced that
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that there is a discussion about the on national television everyday, accusing the Home Minister's office of hatching conspiracy to "defame" her government. She further said that the state government is taking strong action against the fake