[caption id="attachment_31192" align="alignnone" width="300"] Officers from the Nicaraguan police and riot police forces at the main entrance of Bishop Rolando Álvarez’s church, in Matagalpa, 60 miles north of Managua, Nicaragua, on Aug. 4, 2022. The arrest of Álvarez, the most senior clergyman to be detained
New York: China has accused the United States of sending "very wrong, dangerous signals" on Taiwan after the U.S. secretary of state told his Chinese counterpart that the maintenance of peace and stability over Taiwan was vitally important. Taiwan was the focus of the 90-minute, "direct
Tokyo: A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing two and leaving tens of thousands of households without power, the Kyodo news agency reported. Shizuoka city, southwest of the capital, Tokyo, was hit especially hard, seeing a record 417 mm
London: If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official told Reuters. In an interview, WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward warned that richer nations must not step back from tackling COVID-19
Tehran: Iranian police in just one province have arrested over 700 people during more than a week of protests following the death of a young woman in custody, Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. General Azizollah Maleki, police chief of Guilan province, announced “the arrest of 739
United Nations: Countries on the front lines of the climate crisis are fed up. During the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week, low-lying island nation Vanuatu stepped up a fight to get the world to focus on combating global warming by
Karachi: Pakistani nationals have demanded the resumption of the Thar Express that allowed movement between India and Pakistan — which has been non-operative for the past three years due to tensions between the two countries that started in 2019. While there is a barbed wire along