JAKARTA: Arriving on a rickety boat in western Indonesia from squalid Bangladesh camps after weeks at sea late last year, hundreds of Rohingya refugees came to shore only to be turned around and pushed back. The persecuted Myanmar minority were previously welcomed in the ultra-conservative Aceh
BELFAST/DUBLIN: Northern Ireland lawmakers are set to elect an Irish nationalist First Minister for the first time on Saturday, placing a member of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army in charge of a region where it seeks an end to British rule. But
UNITED NATIONS: Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have continued to flee intense hostilities in Khan Younis towards the massively overcrowded southern city of Rafah which UN humanitarian officials described as a “pressure cooker of despair.” The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, comes
MADRID: Madrid airport is struggling to cope with an unprecedented influx of African asylum seekers, who have to sleep in crammed, dirty spaces, prompting the Red Cross to stop providing services there in protest. Hundreds of migrants, the majority from Senegal, have in recent weeks requested
MALE: India will start withdrawing its troops deployed in the Maldives from next month, Male's foreign ministry said after talks. New Delhi considers the strategically located Indian Ocean archipelago -- which straddles key global shipping lanes -- to be within its sphere of influence. But the Maldives
NEW DELHI: The United States has granted approval to sell 31 state-of-the-art MQ-9b remotely piloted aircraft Sky Guardian drones, equipped with indigenous missiles and laser-guided bombs, to India. The cost of the 31 drones, along with the associated weapons and equipment, is estimated to be around
NEW YORK: A former CIA programmer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for leaking the US spy agency’s most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks. Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of espionage and other charges in what the CIA called a
WASHINGTON: The US administration has approved plans for multi-day strikes in Iraq and Syria on targets including "Iranian personnel and facilities", CBS News reported, citing American officials. The report follows days of conjecture about how Washington will retaliate after three US service members were killed on
LONDON: A UK-wide hunt for a man wanted for attacking a woman and her two daughters with a corrosive substance in London entered its third day on Friday, with media reports saying the suspect was given asylum despite a sex offenses conviction. The 31-year-old woman and
NEW YORK: US President Joe Biden campaigned in the crucial swing state of Michigan, where growing Arab-American anger at his pro-Israel policies threatens to cut into already tight margins of support. Biden was welcomed to the Midwestern state in part by pro-Palestinian protesters accusing him of