LONDON: UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been asked to clarify claims he made regarding arms sales to Israel by the chair of the UK’s foreign affairs select committee. Cameron recommended arms sales to Israel be allowed to continue on Dec. 8 despite fears by Foreign
FRANKFURT: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across towns and cities in Germany this weekend as the country enters a second week of nationwide protests against the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Demonstrations have gained momentum after reports emerged from investigative
JERUSALEM: Iran has that it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles. The announcement comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the consecration of the "Ram Temple" on the site which once hosted Babri mosque — a centuries-old Mosque demolished by a Hindu extremist mob in December 1992. Islamabad's statement comes as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the consecration ceremony
TOKYO: Japan hopes to make the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Japan’s attempt to bring down its lander at
CAIRO: Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters. In the report to the
UNITED NATIONS: Women and children are the main victims the Gaza war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the U.N. agency promoting gender equality said. As a result of the more than
BERLIN: Germany is expected to approve a law that shortens the path to citizenship and makes it easier to hold multiple nationalities, moves designed to ease crippling labor shortages by making the country more attractive to migrant workers. The new law, a signature policy of Chancellor
NEW DELHI: As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India's minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. Haji
DAVOS: Carla Haddad Mardini, director of UNICEF’s private fundraising and partnerships division, has highlighted the importance of integrating “a child-sensitive lens” in all aspects of the private sector’s work. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Haddad Mardini said that children’s rights must