London: Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine's capital in February and March. Civilians also suffered abuses such as “reckless shootings and torture” at the
New York: The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in the United States has found. "We found that the risks of hospitalization
United Nations: A third operation is under way to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and the besieged Azovstal steel plant, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council. The United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have so
Chicago: Mayoral candidate Raymond Lopez denounced Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s targeting of the Arab and Muslim community as “disgusting and tasteless,” and vowed to launch a probe into her actions which has cost hundreds of job losses and millions in income and tax revenue. Lopez added that
Cox’s Bazar: Bangladesh police detained 450 Rohingya celebrating Eidul Fitr on a beach, , in a further sign of growing intolerance towards the refugees. Bangladesh bans the 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees from leaving camps surrounded by barbed wire in the southeast where they have been
Kabul: Taliban officials in Afghanistan's most progressive city have told driving instructors to stop issuing licenses to women, professionals from the sector told AFP. While Afghanistan is a deeply conservative and patriarchal country, it is not uncommon for women to drive in larger cities, particularly Herat
New Delhi: A total of 1,081 trips of 42 passenger trains have been cancelled so far been cancelled since last month to facilitate the movement of coal amid a power crisis in the country, PTI reported citing the Indian Railways. While 40 of these trains have
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 death toll is almost 10 times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths until December 2021 – 4.7 million. This is one of the conclusions of the much-anticipated WHO report on
Islamabad: Pakistan has categorically rejected the report of the so-called ‘delimitation commission’ for Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK). The Indian Charge d’ Affairs was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche conveying the Government of Pakistan’s categorical rejection of the report of
Gurugram: Claiming that he has been warned by “gau rakshaks” (cow vigilantes) not to enter the Haryana assembly, Congress MLA from Ferozpur Jhirka, Mamman Khan, said the state government will be responsible if anything happens to him or his family. Khan said that he has written