Ray Hanania Last year was the deadliest for Israeli violence against Palestinians since 2014, when Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and killed more than 2,310 Palestinians, according to B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights watchdog. Data that exposes Israel’s propaganda lies is one reason Israel wants to outlaw
Vatican Cit: yPeople who choose to have pets instead of children are acting selfishly, Pope Francis said this week. “Today
Yaounde, Cameroon: Cameroonian officials have joined hundreds of Muslims and Christians in the capital, Yaoundé, to pray for peace during the Africa Football Cup of Nations games. Cameroon is hosting Africa's top football championship starting Sunday, including in western regions, where anglophone separatists have vowed to
NEW YORK: COVID-19 hospitalisations in the United States are poised to hit a new high as early as Friday, according to a Reuters tally, surpassing the record set in January of last year as the highly contagious Omicron variant fuels a surge in infections. Hospitalisations have
Washington: Three white men convicted of murdering African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery after chasing him in their pickup trucks were sentenced to life in prison Friday in a case that highlighted US tensions over racial justice. Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were
New York: 2021 marked the 25th year in a row in which the key Greenland ice sheet lost more mass during the melting season, than it gained during the winter, according to a new UN-endorsed report issued. The data from the Danish Arctic monitoring service Polar
Qaisar Mansoor The last caste census was done in 1931 when India was under British rule. A similar exercise was carried out in 2011, but it never saw the light of the day because of inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Only 7 percent Brahmans are ruling the country. Hence
New Delhi: Being born in a Dalit family is a curse in India as human rights abuses against Dalits by upper caste Hindus have become a new normal in the country. According to a report, Dalits live in constant fear of being publicly humiliated by upper
New York: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked authorities to immediately release a journalist in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK), days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule. The media watchdog on Saturday said it was “deeply disturbed”
New York: A webinar was held in New York to commemorate the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination. In his key-note address, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, said that this was to mark the fifth of January 1949, when the UN Commission for Pakistan