ABU DHABI: The UN climate conference opened Thursday with nations urged to make faster cuts to planet-warming emissions and phase out fossil fuels as scepticism swirls over the oil-rich United Arab Emirates hosting the talks. The two-week-long negotiations in a vast exhibition venue in Dubai come
MOSCOW: Russia's interior ministry has prepared draft legislation that would force foreigners to sign a "loyalty agreement" forbidding them from criticising official policy, discrediting Soviet military history, or contravening traditional family values. Since President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has introduced
LONDON: A British barrister whose son was killed by the Israel Defense Forces says that Israel will lose Western support if it continues its “fundamentally unethical and inhuman attitudes,” The Times reported on Thursday. Anthony Hurndall shared information about his son’s shooting, showcasing how Israeli military
LONDON: Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) founder and Khalistan Referendum spokesman Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has said the assassination plot charges against Nikhil Gupta and other Indian state officials by the US authorities are in fact charges against Narendra Modi. The Sikh leader said it is reassuring that
PARIS: From Hamas's attacks in Israel, and the fierce retribution it provoked, to the kiss that caused a revolt in Spanish football, here are 10 events that marked a tumultuous 2023: Israel-Gaza war On October 7, hundreds of Hamas gunmen pour across the border from Gaza, killing
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s main opposition party said on Wednesday it would continue its anti-government protests despite what a rights group called an "autocratic crackdown" ahead of a general election in January. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), whose top leadership is either jailed or in exile, has already
LONDON: A TIME magazine female staff writer has taken her X, formerly Twitter, account off after coming under attack from the Indian government assets online for interviewing Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun for the publication on the failed Indian attempt to assassinate him on the
NEW DELHI: India will formally investigate security concerns aired by the United States in a warning to New Delhi about its links to a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist leader, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The issue comes at a delicate time for
SRINAGAR: In another low, Indian police have arrested seven Kashmiri students under the draconian anti-terror law for celebrating the country’s defeat in World Cup finals and raising pro-Pakistan slogans in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). According to Indian media reports, the seven students of
LONDON: The BBC has come under fire for mistranslating the words of a Palestinian prisoner following the her exchange as part of a hostage release deal between Isreal and Hamas on Friday. Respond Crisis Translation stated that the former detainee criticized her Israeli captors in her