St. Peter’s Basilica: Pope Francis prayed that people don’t feel lost amid the problems of the pandemic as he listened to children’s poignant accounts of sorrow and loneliness, which provided the motif for an unusual Way of the Cross torch-lit Good Friday procession in St.

Riyadh: Normalisation with Israel would bring “tremendous benefit” to the Middle East region, the Saudi foreign minister said . But such an accord would depend on progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, he added. Under the “Abraham Accords” brokered by former US president Donald Trump last

Yangon: Myanmar activists held candle-lit protests overnight and scrambled to find ways to get around a deepening internet shutdown as anti-coup protesters pledged to continue efforts to force out the generals despite a military crackdown that has killed hundreds, including dozens of children. Anti-coup groups shared

New Delhi: India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. This actually makes India the third-worst performer in South Asia with only Pakistan and Afghanistan faring worse. According to the report, India

Islamabad: Kuwaiti Lawyer and Director of International Human Rights Mejbel Al Sharika has said Indian barbarism is being watched and every human right's violation will be harshly accounted for. In a tweet, he said condition of law and order under the fascist Hindutva regime in India

Islamabad: Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov will visit Pakistan on April 6-7 to hold talks with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. According to a tweet of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a social media platform Twitter on Thursday, during the visit both the

Islamabad: The US State Department’s annual report on human rights brought more embarrassment for fascist Modi’s India as it highlighted human rights violations in the country and New Delhi’s brutal actions in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The report highlighted the extrajudicial killings by Indian

Minneapolis: A Minneapolis homicide investigator testified on Friday that Derek Chauvin used “totally unnecessary” deadly force when kneeling on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest last May that sparked global protests against police brutality. Chauvin, who is white, was fired by the city’s police department the

Washington: The United States lifted sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that drew international criticism after they were imposed by the administration of former President Donald Trump. The move, announced by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, lifts the sanctions imposed on Bensouda over

Washington: The United States is working with international partners to defend human rights worldwide as authoritarian regimes step up repression amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Standing for people’s freedom and dignity honors America’s most sacred values,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said March 30, announcing the