Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against “expanding” military ties in a speech ahead of a virtual summit with top leaders from Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa. Beijing is hosting the meeting of the influential club of BRICS emerging economies, which accounts for more than
Washington: US President Joe Biden ordered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other federal agencies to help those affected by an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US is "deeply saddened to see the devastating earthquake" that killed
California: A Black former Tesla worker who said he was harassed and faced with “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word,” while working at the company’s Fremont, California, plant has rejected a substantially reduced award of $15 million in his lawsuit. Owen Diaz, who worked at the
By Qudrat Ullah LIPR Ambassador of Peace Most people in the world have had the experience of leaving the place where they grew up. Maybe they will only move as far as the next village or city. But for some people, they will need to leave
By Qudrat Ullah LIPR Ambassador of Peace The New Gwadar International Airport, the flagship project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is scheduled for completion by September 2023. According to Chinese State Television CGTN, the second largest airport of Pakistan, launched in 2019, is a $230 million
By Ms. Plamédie Mesongolo LIPR AOP in France Introduction In March 2022 a UN Human Right’s report describes continued violence against civilians in Tambura, South Sudan, between June and September 2021, with at least 64 cases of sexual violence including 7 men[2]. Conflict related sexual violence (CRSV), as
New York: Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of Harvard Medical School. However,
New York: Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun condemned the latest attack on Gurdwara in Afghanistan which is carried out "by non-state actors". Pannun has urged the Sikh community to support the Khalistan referendum to create a Sikh homeland in "Indian occupied Punjab". He
Srinagar: On June 23, 2022 as world marks United Nations’ International Day of Widows thousands of Kashmiri widows mourn brutal killing of their husbands by Indian troops. The genocide in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) continues unabated leaving a blotch on India’s face
New York: US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives where she has condemned the human rights abuses in India and called for the Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate India as a "country of particular concern". The resolution appeared