OUAGADOUGOU: Scores of young Burkinabe Muslims and Christians gathered in Ouagadougou’s public square as the sun set to breakfast together, promoting religious tolerance during Ramadan and Lent as Burkina Faso grapples with a violent insurgency. Organized by a local interfaith youth group, the event saw Muslims
Rome: Pope Francis led a Palm Sunday service the day after he was discharged from hospital following a bout of bronchitis, and urged the world to take better care of the poor, the lonely and the infirm. Thousands of people waved palm and olive branches as
Dhaka: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority. Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military
United Nations: The international community must take firm and principled action to protect the human rights and dignity of Palestinians, amid mounting violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the threat of even further annexation, an independent UN-appointed rights expert has said. “The wave of deadly
Rome: Climate activists in Italy turned a Baroque-style fountain at the foot of Rome’s Spanish Steps black on Saturday, in a protest they said evoked an “end of the world” scenario. Three activists from the anti-climate change organization Last Generation poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into
United Nations: Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the UN World Food Program warned Saturday. David Beasley praised
Naval Station Norfolk: On Navy ships docked at this vast base, hundreds of sailors in below-deck mazes of windowless passageways perform intense, often monotonous manual labor. It’s necessary work before a ship deploys, but hard to adjust to for many already challenged by the stresses
New Delhi: After refusing to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the United Nations and procurement of oil from the country by New Delhi, visible cracks have emerged in the “strategic relationship” between the United States and India. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, there
Paris: A large number of Sikhs held a protest demonstration in Paris against the persecution of Sikhs by the Narendra Modi-led fascist in India, particularly in the Punjab state. The participants of the organised by Gurduwara Prabhadank Committiee France and European Sikh Organisation were holding Khalistan
Patna: Hindutva mob set a Madrassa (Islamic seminary) on fire and vandalized a mosque and properties of Muslims during the Hindu festival Ram Navmi in Biharsharif city in Nalanda district of the Indian state of Bihar. According to the details, a procession of a Hindutva group