Paris: France repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday. “The minors were handed over to the services in charge of child assistance and will be subject to medical and social monitoring,” the ministry
Bangkok: Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in
Vienna: Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday. The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, the United Nations Office
Washington: The West stepped up pressure on Iran over its crackdown on protests as the United States, European Union and United Kingdom imposed fresh sanctions on Tehran. The actions, which reflect a deterioration in the West s already dire relations with Tehran in recent months, are
Washington: The State Department Tuesday said that even though the United States wants to see regional stability in South Asia, its relationships with Pakistan and India "stand on their own". State Department Spokesperson Ned Price expressed these views during a press briefing on Monday while talking
Spending on arms has escalated since India’s right-wing government came to power in 2014. The two countries that send India the most weapons to enable the ongoing occupation in Kashmir are Israel and the United States. Indian Administered Kashmir is the most militarized region in the
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) produced a report card of 'unfulfilled promises' made by the India’s ruling Bhartaya Janata Party government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The report card highlighted failures and performance of the Modi government on various fronts like economy, foreign
New Delhi: Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi vowed on Tuesday to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, as his Congress party’s long march reached the Muslim-majority region that in 2019 was stripped of its special autonomy. Gandhi’s campaign, Bharat Jodo Yatra, or Unite India March,
London: Days after the BBC aired a documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi titled ‘India: The Modi Question’, former British foreign secretary Jack Straw testified about his government conducting an investigation on its own into the 2002 Gujarat riots in India after the large-scale
Madhya Pradesh: A Hindutva mob allegedly trespassed a 24-year-old Hindu woman’s flat and assaulted her male Muslim friends on the allegations of “love jihad” in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. “Love jihad” is a debunked Hindutva idea that Muslim men romantically lure Hindu women in order to convert