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Washington: US President Joe Biden s administration said that Israel s control of the West Bank is indeed "occupation," clarifying its stance after the release of a report that seemed to downplay the term, adopting language used by Donald Trump s government. The State Department s
New Delhi: India is on the verge of losing its status as a democracy due to the severely shrinking of space for the media, civil society and the opposition under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the 2020 ‘Democracy Report’ by the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute has
Riyadh: A senior Saudi official said on Thursday he rejected claims that he issued a death threat against UN investigator Agnes Callamard following her probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder. At a meeting with UN officials in Geneva in January 2020, a senior Saudi official
Moscow: Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny went on hunger strike in an attempt to force the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care for what he said was acute pain in his back and legs. The fate of Navalny, one of
Ajaz Ashraf Astrologers sharing Home Minister Amit Shah’s rate of success in predicting Assembly election results would not stand a chance to survive in the fortune-telling business. Shah has read as many 11 Assembly elections wrong since 2018. Yet every time he foretells a sweeping victory
United Nations: China said it wanted a "democratic transition" in military-ruled Myanmar, but ruled out sanctions at a UN Security Council meeting. "China hopes that Myanmar will restore peace, stability and constitutional order as early as possible and continue to steadily advance democratic transition," Ambassador Zhang
Kyiv: Ukraine’s smouldering seven-year war with Russian-backed separatists on its eastern border has flared up sharply in recent days, following the worst clashes in months. Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed — the largest daily death toll for government forces since the latest shaky ceasefire took effect
Masooma Rahmaty Two years ago, before even direct talks between the Taliban and United States began, the missing voices of women in Afghanistan in peace talks was a glaring problem. It was clear at the time that the rushed attempt by the US government to end
Paris: France reopened its embassy in Libya this week after a seven-year closure, following a decade of insecurity after the fall of General Moamer Khadhafi in the 2011 revolution. As the country gears up to hold elections in December, will international powers with ambitions to
Three years since the UN Secretary-General launched his Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative to strengthen peacekeeping operations internationally there has been “significant progress but the work is far from done” according to the world body’s the peacekeeping chief. At an event to take stock of progress
Colombo: It has been 13 years since Manuel Udayachandra’s son, Anton Seerado, went missing from the Pallimunai village of northern Sri Lanka's war-torn Mannar district. But even today, the 63-year-old mother of four continues to wait for her eldest child to return home. “There is no closure,”
Yangon: Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) and Justice For Myanmar (JFM) have alleged that India's Adani Ports is conducting business with a Myanmar military-owned company, Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), that was put under US sanctions following the coup in the country. The Australian non-profit lawyers'