Barcelona: With Covid-19 restrictions preventing Barcelona's Islamic population from celebrating Ramazan at the usual indoor venues, a Catholic church has offered up its open-air cloisters for Muslims to eat and pray together. Every evening between 50 and 60 Muslims, many of them homeless, stream into the

Brussels: Leaders at the May 8, 2021 summit with their Indian counterparts should prioritize the deteriorating human rights situation in India, including the right to health, eight organizations said today. With a devastating Covid-19 crisis affecting the country, Europe should focus on providing support to help

Yangon: Explosions have rocked Myanmar’s largest city Yangon as protesters held flash marches for democracy and overnight candle-lit vigils, defying a brutal military leadership that has held onto power for three bloody months. The country has been in turmoil since the military deposed civilian leader Aung

Washington: A senior White House official denied reports from Tehran that an agreement had been reached with Iran for the release of four Americans detained there. "I can tell you, unfortunately, that report is untrue," White House chief of staff Ron Klain said on CBS s

Rome: The Italian minister of culture announced the winning bid to restore the Colosseum’s arena, a project that will allow visitors to view the archeological wonder from ground level as soon as 2023. The 2,000 year old structure is currently floorless, the ruins of the underground

Seoul: North Korea warned the United States will face a very grave situation because President Joe Biden made a big blunder in his recent speech by calling the North a security threat and revealing his intent to maintain a hostile policy against it. Last week, Biden,

New Delhi: India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day, taking its overall caseload to just shy of 20 million, while deaths from COVID-19 rose by 3,417. With 368,147 new cases over the past 24 hours, India s total

Manama: Bahrain has officially launched the wage protection system which will be completed in phases to protect the wages of private-sector employees and limit labour disputes. The first stage of the system went into effect as of May with a wide response from the targeted employers,

Kathmandu: The Nepal government has decided to close 22 border points with India amid a sharp surge in COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring country. The decision came after the COVID Crisis Management Coordination Committee (CCMC) recommended to the Council of Ministers to shut down 22 out

Bangkok: The road to peace in Thailand's restive southern provinces bordering Malaysia takes a crucial turn in May when negotiators from both sides of the ethnic conflict resume discussions, bringing "substantive issues" to the table. The lead peace negotiator of Barisan Revolusi Nasional, the largest rebel