Seattle: The Seattle Police Department should “offer a sincere, public apology” for its violent response to people demonstrating after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a panel of officers, citizens and accountability experts concluded in a report. In its fourth and final review of the
Jeddah: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday criticised the violence against Muslims during Ram Navami festivities in several states, saying it was a “vivid manifestation of mounting Islamophobia” in India. The bloc has 57 mostly Muslim-majority nations as its members. It is one of
Mumbai: In November last year, the Telangana high court laid down three strict conditions while setting aside MLA Raja Singh’s preventive detention order. Singh, who has over 100 criminal cases against him, had spent 76 days in jail under preventive detention for stoking communal tensions
Lima: Peruvians in the southern region of Puno carried coffins through the streets of the 17 civilians who died in protests in the area earlier this week, the worst outbreak of violence the Andean country has seen in over 20 years. Even as families mourned their
Gaza: Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her. "She died from a severe beating, which caused bleeding on the brain and lungs and broken ribs," said her mother Nazmiya. Sitting with her husband Suleiman