BELGRADE, Serbia: Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer and three attackers dead. Sunday’s clash was one
VANCOUVER, CANADA: Demanding the expulsion of Indian High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma, a large number of pro-Khalistan Sikhs gathered at Indian Consulates in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and San Francisco to show their support for Canada and to challenge India’s calls for “nuking Canada”
NEW YORK: The United States reportedly warned Sikh-American activists residing mainly in the state of California to be watchful in the wake of the brazen killing in June of a Sikh leader allegedly by agents of the Indian government. According to The Intercept, an online American
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