KABUL: Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, human rights violations have surged, plunging the nation into a dire humanitarian crisis. Terrorist groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have inflicted severe oppression on the Afghan people, with
LONDON: Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe's human rights court, a civil servants' trade union told London's High Court on Thursday. The FDA union is taking legal action against
BEIJING: Ukraine's first deputy foreign minister visited China on Wednesday and urged it to send a delegation to a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, in the apparent hope it was still possible to persuade China to attend. Russia has not been invited to
BRUSSELS/GENEVA: Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert "climate hell". The average global temperature for the 12-month period
JAKARTA: Two global faith leaders – Andrea Muñoz Spannaus, second counselor of the Young Women General Presidency for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Prof. Dr. KH. Nasaruddin Umar – convened at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia to discuss and promote
PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom: King Charles III on Wednesday led commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary for the World War II D-Day landings, joining British veterans, other senior royals and political leaders. The 75-year-old monarch, who only recently resumed public engagements as he battles cancer, spoke at
LONDON: Blocked British-Pakistani Labour Party candidate and left-wing academic Faiza Shaheen has dramatically quit the Labour party and accused it of a “hierarchy of racism”. The left-winger had been due to contest the Chingford and Woodford Green seat held by Iain Duncan Smith but she was
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab police on May 29 claimed to have arrested a total of 140 suspects involved in attacking members of the Christian minority, their properties and police personnel on the issue of alleged desecration of the Quran. A charged mob led by radical Islamist Tehreek-e-Labbaik
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be sworn-in for a record-equalling third term on June 8, after key allies pledged their continued support a day after a humbling election verdict that saw his party lose its majority in parliament. Modi, a populist
SARGODHA: The death of Nazir Masih, a Christian in his 70s, was announced Monday, nine days after he was attacked by a mob in Sargodha, a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Catholics in Pakistan website published a photograph June 3 of Masih’s body being lowered