United Nations: Cindy McCain of the United States took the helm at the World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based UN agency, amid “unprecedented” global hunger fueled by conflict, climate change and soaring fertilizer prices. The agency estimates that more than 345 million people worldwide face crisis
London: Britain has set out plans to simplify and speed up post-Brexit border checks after repeated delays that the government previously blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic and then the war in Ukraine. The new model will be backed by more than 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion)
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi demanded that the Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar should be demolished and temples should be constructed at the two sites, ANI reported. The matter came to light after a video of Kurmi making the statement at a press
Karnataka: Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Munirathna was on Thursday booked for hate speech after his remarks about Christians, Press Trust of India reported. Munirathna is the horticulture minister in the Basavaraj Bommai-led government. During an interview with a Kannada news channel on March 31, he had
Kerala: A special court in Kerala sentenced 13 persons to seven years’ imprisonment for lynching an Adivasi man in Palakkad district in 2018, Live Law reported. The man, Madhu, was beaten up by a mob on February 22, 2018, on the suspicion that he had stolen
New York: Donald Trump, the former US president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, arrived at a Manhattan courthouse to be formally charged on Tuesday in a watershed moment as his supporters and detractors noisily rallied outside. Trump, 76, is the first sitting or former
Hong Kong: China is for the first time keeping at least one nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine constantly at sea, according to a Pentagon report – adding pressure on the United States and its allies as they try to counter Beijing's growing military. The assessment of China's
Dhaka: The government in Myanmar must build trust and ensure safety for Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner has said following calls to suspend the community’s potential return to their homeland. Bangladesh has been hosting and providing humanitarian support to 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims, most of whom
Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted in favour on Tuesday of extending the mandate of an investigative body probing possible war crimes committed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Twenty-eight countries voted in favour of extending the mandate of the Independent International Commission of
London: British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been facing ire of the Pakistani community when she labelled British-Pakistani men as members of grooming gangs who are involved in 'pursuing, raping, drugging and harming vulnerable English girls'. In an interview with Sky News, she asserted that vulnerable