Rome: More than 1,400 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded vessels, including a sailboat, in four separate operations in the Mediterranean Sea off southern Italy, the Italian coast guard said Wednesday. There were 47 migrants, including two children in immediate need of medical care, aboard the
Sharjah: Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB), the world's first and only organisation connecting skilled refugees to job opportunities worldwide, has been honoured with the prestigious Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support (SIARA 2023). The award, with a value of AED 500,000, recognises TBB's pioneering efforts
Beijing: China and Russia conducted a joint air patrol over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea for a sixth time since 2019, prompting neighbouring South Korea and Japan to scramble fighter jets. China's defence ministry said the patrol was part of the two militaries'
Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the Vatican to contribute to the implementation of a Ukrainian peace plan during talks with a Papal envoy about Russia's war on Ukraine. Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, tasked by Pope Francis to carry out a peace mission to try to help
Srinagar: National Conference leader, Omar Abdullah, has said that the holding of the G20 meeting in Srinagar was an attempt by Narendra Modi-led Indian government to cover up the situation in the territory but the local people know the reality. Omar Abdullah talking to reporters in
Islamabad: The President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, has said that the key to peace in South Asia was inescapably linked to the settlement of the Kashmir dispute. He was talking to Austrian researcher Markus Gauster, who called on him at Jammu
New Delhi: The police in Uttarkashi district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand have registered an FIR after posters threatening Muslim traders to leave the area by June 15 were put up in Purola town, following a violent protest. The provocative posters, which were placed on
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government has asked New Delhi to issue a clarification about the mural of the Indian subcontinent in the new Parliament building, The Hindu reported on Wednesday. Dhaka’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said that his government has asked its
Srinagar: Political experts and analysts have said that the Narendra Modi-led Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government is peddling the false narrative of development and progress to justify its illegal actions in the territory. The political experts and analysts in their statement and interviews in Srinagar said
London: The cost to UK authorities of detaining and deporting people over the next two years under the country’s controversial new Illegal Migration Bill could reach £6 billion ($7.5 billion), according to internal government projections obtained by the BBC. The bill, passed by the House of