ROME: Italian authorities have detained a migrant rescue ship for 20 days after it disobeyed an order about where to disembark its passengers, the charity which operates the vessel said on Tuesday. The 14-metre ex-lifeboat Aurora picked up 72 people in distress in the central Mediterranean
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Rangers personnel, deployed along the international border with India, have apprehended six Indian smugglers inside Pakistani territory from July 29 to August 3, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release on Tuesday. "These smugglers/criminals were trying to smuggle narcotics, weapons and
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists, a US-based international watchdog body called on the Indian authorities to immediately unblock the website and social media accounts of the independent Kashmiri news outlet ,’The Kashmir Walla’, and to stop persecuting journalists. ‘The Kashmir Walla’ became inaccessible in
NEW DELHI: A news website based in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK) has shut its office in Srinagar following a fierce crackdown against press freedom in the occupied valley by the Indian government. The website and social media accounts of the portal, The Kashmir
RIYADH: Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an
NEW DELHI: A mob of nearly 20 people shouting “Jai Shri Ram” and hailing India as a Hindu nation vandalised a church and assaulted members of the Christian community in Delhi’s Tahirpur on Sunday. In his complaint to the police, pastor Satpal Bhati said that the
NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court, today, junked a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking declaration that abrogation of Article 370 and deletion of Article 35A by the President was valid and constitutional. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and
LONDON: A 10-year-old girl suffered extensive injuries over a sustained period of time before she was found dead, murder detectives said as they sought her father, who is currently in Pakistan. The minor girl, Sara Sharif, was found dead at her home in Woking after her
GENEVA: More than 2,400 people have been killed in Haiti since the start of 2023 amid rampant gang violence, including hundreds killed in lynchings by vigilante mobs, the UN said. The toll comes as clashes in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince this week left 30 residents dead
RAJASTHAN: A Muslim man was lynched in the Alwar district of India’s Rajasthan over suspicions of illegally chopping wood in a forest in the Rampur area, Indian media reported. According to The Hindu, the victim, identified as 27-year-old Wasim, and his friends were in a pick-up