Athens: Greece’s coast guard continued to search for four missing migrants off the island of Mykonos after rescuing another 108 migrants on a sailboat that sent a distress signal late on Saturday, officials said. A coast guard vessel located the sailboat about 1.8 nautical miles southeast

Rome: The UN’s World Food Programme warned that refugees in East and West Africa faced smaller food rations due to a surge in demand and insufficient funding. Three quarters of refugees in East Africa supported by the United Nations’ program have seen their rations reduced by

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron lost his parliamentary majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and the far right, in a stunning blow to his plans for major second term reform. The result threw French politics into turmoil, raising the prospect of

Shanghai: China has carried out a land-based missile interception test that "achieved its expected purpose", the Defence Ministry said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. China has been ramping up research into all sorts of missiles, from those that can destroy satellites

Moscow: Russian journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov is auctioning his Nobel medal for Ukrainian refugees, distraught at the eradication of independent media in his country, where he says fewer and fewer people support Moscow's military campaign. Muratov is the bear-like co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief

Colombo: Sri Lanka closed schools and halted all non-essential government services on Monday, beginning a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the International Monetary Fund opened talks with Colombo on a possible bailout. The country of 22 million people is in the grip of

Srinagar: In Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), the unabated Indian state terrorism during the last thirty three years has forced over forty thousand Kashmiris to live outside the territory as refugees. Due to Indian atrocities against struggling Kashmiris since 1947, over 2.5 million people had taken refuge

New Delhi: Having finalized the delimitation drama in an attempt to gerrymander the future results of the election for the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Modi-led Indian regime has instructed its Election Commission to initiate the revision of electoral rolls in the

Srinagar: 19th June is marked as International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. This Day reaffirms the principle of universality of all human rights, which apply equally in the conflict areas and occupied territories. Indian forces have sexually assaulted and gang-raped more than

New Delhi: Enrolment under India’s new armed services recruitment plan will commence this month, top defence officials said, despite protests against a scheme that will drastically cut tenure and offer fewer service benefits at the end of the contract. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on June