TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death. President Xiomara Castro said Thursday’s riot at the prison
UNITED NATIONS: The multiple restrictions placed on women and girls by the Taliban authorities are costing them “both domestic and international legitimacy” and are highly unpopular across Afghanistan, the top UN official based there said Thursday. UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council
UNITED NATIONS: With a large group of people protesting outside, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the International Yoga Day celebrations with UN diplomats, officials and members of the Indian diaspora at the world body’s headquarters lawns in New York. This year’s observance organized by the
Washington DC: Ahead of the meeting between United States President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a group of six global journalist bodies said that press freedom was under attack in India. In an advertisement in The Washington Post, the press bodies said that journalists
Jaipur: A Dalit girl was gang-raped and murdered by five individuals, including two police constables in Bikaner district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. The victim, a 20-year-old from a village in Bikaner, used to commute to Khajuwala for computer classes. The main accused, Dinesh Vishnoi,
New Delhi: An investigation by a group of activists has revealed that the Indian public sector undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has exported $5 million worth of military end-use goods, technology and technical documents to be used by the Myanmar junta in the six months
Geneva: Speakers at a seminar in Geneva while referring to the ruthless suppression of dissent in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir said that the freedom of expression remains totally suppressed in the territory. The seminar was organized by World Muslim Congress (WMC) on the sidelines
KHARTOUM: Fighting resumed in different parts of Khartoum on Wednesday as a 72-hour ceasefire — which reportedly saw several violations — between Sudan's warring military factions expired, Reuters reported citing witnesses. A new truce was agreed upon on Saturday, in a series that failed to stop
LONDON: The UK’s top medical bodies have said that detaining children indefinitely under tough new migrant legislation will cause “unimaginable levels of harm” and mental distress. Under current laws, detention is limited to 24 hours for separated children, 72 hours for children in families, and 72
WASHINGTON: Dozens of US President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats urged him to raise human rights issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, according to a letter sent to Biden. Modi left for Washington for a visit projected as a