GENEVA: Russia's torture methods in parts of Ukraine it occupied have been so brutal that it tortured some of its victims to death, the head of a U.N.-mandated investigative body said on Monday. Erik Møse, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, told the U.N.
LONDON: The leader of pro-Khalistan Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has said that India cannot silence and blackmail him by seizing his assets in Indian Punjab and registering false cases. Pannun's remarks came after India's federal anti-terror agencyy, said it has confiscated the properties
LONDON: A new UNICEF-World Bank analysis estimates that one in six children globally (around 333 million) live in extreme poverty, and warns that at current rates of reduction, the Sustainable Development Goal of ending extreme child poverty by 2030 will not be met. The “Global Trends
LONDON: The India Club, a historic London curry house with links to India's freedom struggle, will close its doors for the last time on Sunday after failing to stop a hotel redevelopment plan. With a non-descript entrance up a precipitous stairway on a busy stretch of
LONDON: Migrants in Italy have clashed with authorities after demanding that they be transferred from landing sites to housing across the country, Euractiv reported. Hundreds of new migrants on the island of Lampedusa protested their living conditions at the Favaloro pier, with local police carrying out
WASHINGTON: The UN human rights expert for Myanmar called on the United States to further tighten sanctions on the country's military rulers to include their main revenue source, the state oil and gas enterprise. UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews, a former member of the US Congress,
LONDON: Police in the United Kingdom has said that they have taken into custody three people on suspicion of the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif who was found dead in a residence near Woking, southeast England, on August 10 as the trio fled to escape
AYODHYA: The initial phase of the Ram Temple construction in Ayodhya, a northern town in India, is set to conclude in December and will be open to devotees in January, an Indian official said on Thursday. The site where the temple is being constructed was the
NEW YORK: The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on the freedom of Afghanistan’s people, including women and girls experiencing “immeasurably cruel” oppression, the U.N.'s human rights chief said Tuesday. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that human rights are in a
LONDON: Britain's government and water regulator may have failed to comply with environmental law over the regulation of untreated sewage releases, the country's environmental protection watchdog said on Tuesday. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said it believed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs