London: The British Home Office is giving asylum seekers the option of being flown back to the conflict zones they escaped from or being sent to Rwanda, the east African nation that the UK has signed a deportation deal with. The Guardian has seen a document

Paris: A world severely blighted by plastic pollution is on track to see the use of plastics nearly triple in less than four decades, according to new findings. Annual production of fossil-fuel-based plastics are set to top 1.2 billion tonnes by 2060 and waste to exceed

Phnom Penh: Cambodia and Beijing on Tuesday denied a report that they are building a secret naval facility for the Chinese fleet, as Australia’s new prime minister voiced concern and called for transparency. The Washington Post, citing unnamed Western officials, said a new facility at Cambodia’s

Tunis: Tunisian judges launched a week-long strike on Monday in protest at President Kais Saied’s “interference” in the judiciary, days after he sacked 57 of their colleagues. Saied — who suspended parliament in a power grab last July — issued a new decree last week extending

London: Russia should not close the U.S. embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world’s two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying. President Vladimir Putin has cast the invasion of Ukraine

Irbil, Iraq: Women and children held in Al-Hol, a sprawling camp of some 57,000 people in northeast Syria, endure squalid conditions and almost daily violence, meted out by its many hard-line inmates who still cling to the extremist ideology of Daesh. Violence is endemic inside the

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote but a rebellion by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party lawmakers dealt a serious blow to his authority. A majority of the Conservatives' lawmakers — at least 180 — would have had to vote against Johnson

Barcelona: A Spanish judge will travel to Israel to seek testimony from the head of tech company NSO, the maker of the controversial Pegasus spyware used in tapping politicians’ phones in Spain, the country’s National Court said Tuesday. The court said that José Luis Calama has

New York: Elon Musk threatened to withdraw his bid to buy Twitter, accusing it of failing to provide data on fake accounts, in the latest twist in the Tesla billionaire’s push to acquire the social network. Twitter has committed “a clear material breach” of its “obligations

New Delhi: The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued visas to 163 Sikh pilgrims from India to participate in the annual Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjun Dev Jee scheduled to be held on June 8-17, 2022. The issuance of visas is covered under the