KALAMATA, Greece: Rescuers were scouring the seas off Greece on Thursday in a massive search operation as hopes dwindled for survivors of a shipwreck that killed at least 79 people, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters in recent years. Hundreds of people were thought to
KHARTOUM: Army warplanes bombed the Sudanese city of El Obeid, as the country prepared to mark two months of suffering since a power struggle between rival generals plunged the country into a devastating war. Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and
WASHINGTON: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday called on the U.S. government to urge India to end a media crackdown and release six detained journalists. A statement from CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg ahead of a state visit to Washington next week by Indian Prime Minister
MANIPUR: At least nine people were shot dead in the remote northeast Indian state of Manipur, officials said -- the latest incident in weeks of violence sparked by long-standing ethnic tensions. Manipur saw days of deadly clashes in May, prompted by a dispute over access to
United Nations: Pakistan has told the UN General Assembly that India, whose prime minister is visiting the US later this month, was targeting Indian Muslims, Christians, as also Muslims of occupied Kashmir, and called for an end to their harsh suppression. Ambassador Munir Akram in a
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned India for confiscating the properties of Kashmiri activists and human rights defenders in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). “We are concerned about the recurring acts of confiscation of properties by India in IIOJK,” the Foreign Office spokesperson
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Thursday they had charged the country's wrestling federation president with sexual harassment and stalking, following a protest by the sport's top figures demanding his arrest. In April, a group of wrestlers began a sit-in in the capital New Delhi to demand
BEIJING: China is willing to play a positive role to help the Palestinians achieve internal reconciliation and promote peace talks with Israel, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Palestinian counterpart in Beijing on Wednesday. "The fundamental solution to the Palestinian issue lies in the establishment of
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai The crisis in Kashmir – and the United Nations ineffectual response – represents an example of the failure of the United Nations to respond effectively against massive and persistent violations of human rights. Kashmir also represents a failure of the United Nations
The Hague: Dutch military intelligence warned the CIA of a Ukrainian plan to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline three months before explosions damaged the undersea system, news reports said Wednesday. The US spy agency then urged Kyiv not to go ahead with the operation,