LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia: Holding his son's hand in a temporary shelter in Indonesia, Rohingya Mohamed Ridoi says he made the dangerous 12-day sea journey from massive refugee camps in Bangladesh to escape the pervasive threats of kidnapping, extortion and murder. The 27-year-old said he was starting a
BEIJING: A Beijing court on Monday began hearing compensation cases filed by the families of dozens of Chinese people who died on board a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared almost 10 years ago. The MH370 jet vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people – mostly
NEW YORK: The Indian envoy in the US had to flee a Gurdwara in New York after pro-Khalistan activists confronted him over his role in the failed Indian plot to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, general counsel to Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) and spokesperson for the
LONDON: The US authorities thwarted an Indian conspiracy to assassinate the pro-Khalistan leader of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil and issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot, according to multiple people familiar with
GENEVA: United Nations (UN) agencies voiced hope that a shaky truce that got underway between Israel and Hamas on Friday would allow aid to flow to northern Gaza for the first time in weeks, while the World Health Organization said it is working on further
LONDON: Halal Expo London is set to take center stage once again in the UK capital, promising to be “bigger, better, and more compelling than ever before,” organizers have announced. They said in a statement: “Building on the successes of Halal Expo London 2022 and Halal
LONDON: U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration, as new data showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought. The Office for National Statistics revised its estimates for net migration to the
MOSCOW: A leading Russian supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied a report that he adopted a child forcibly taken from a Ukrainian orphanage. Citing Russian and Ukrainian documents, the BBC reported that Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov had adopted a child, now two years old, who
BEIJING: Northern China has reported an increase in “influenza-like illness” since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, the WHO said China’s National Health Commission told reporters last week that the respiratory illness spike was due to the lifting of Covid-19
LONDON: A group of eight UK-based journalists employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have accused the organisation of not providing an authentic account of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The group of journalists, in a 2,300-word letter addressed to Al Jazeera, accused the BBC