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
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
LONDON: People in more than 150 countries celebrated World Hijab Day with events designed to counter hijabophobia through raised awareness and improved education about the traditional Muslim head covering. The headline event hosted by the World Hijab Day organization, which is based in New York, was
JAKARTA: More than 130 Rohingya landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday, the UN refugee agency said, amid increasing numbers of people from the persecuted minority taking risky boat journeys to reach the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country. Some 569 Rohingya — out of
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called his organization's Palestinian refugee agency the "backbone" of Gaza aid after several countries suspended funding over Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas' October 7 attacks. "Yesterday, I met with donors to listen to their concerns and
THE HAGUE: Judges at the top UN court found that Russia violated elements of a UN anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. In