The Hague – AFP: Myanmar hit out Monday at a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims, urging the UN’s highest court to drop the claim on legal grounds. Banjul dragged Myanmar before the International Court of Justice in 2019, accusing the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar of genocide ...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that he believes all students, regardless of religion, should adhere to the dress code mandated by schools and colleges. “It is my personal belief that people of all religions should accept the school dress code. And the issue is now in court, and […]
A 51-year-old Kashmiri widow tailors a traditional long loose shirt and baggy trousers for a customer. Shaheena Akhter keeps busy with tailoring at her small home in Srinagar SRI NAGAR, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Akhter lives alone in the congested poor neighborhood of Khwaja Bazar. She has developed many health problems since...
India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Singapore over Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s LEE SHEN LONG’S recent remarks. Lee said almost half the Indian Parliament members have criminal charges pending against them, including charges of rape and murder. This issue comes more than a week after New Delhi summoned the South Korean ambassador ov...
When India and Pakistan gained freedom from the British nearly 75 years ago, the Muslim population on the Indian Punjab drastically reducing from 33% to 0.5%. Most mosques were either destroyed or abandoned. Now since Pakistan opened a special corridor for Sikhs to visit their holy sites in Pakistan, the goodwill is being returned. In [&hell...
David Miliband, former U.K. foreign secretary and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, said the West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan. The West has also has its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the Central Asian nation, he said. Miliband has been among those lobbying the Us President Joe Bi...
WARSAW (AA) – The head of Poland’s National Security Bureau said Thursday that Russia’s intention to attack Ukraine is clearer than ever, despite Moscow saying it withdrew some of its troops from the border. “The probability of Russia attacking Ukraine is higher today than yesterday,” said Pawel Soloch. “Rec...
JERUSALEM: A high-level Turkish delegation arrived in Israel on Thursday to meet with Israeli officials ahead of a visit expected next month by Israel’s president to Turkiye, according to official statements. A Turkish delegation led by Ibrahim Kalin, presidential spokesperson and senior adviser to the president, held meetings with Foreign Min...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, on Thursday agreed to move forward with forming a government that includes Shias, Sunnis and Kurds. A joint statement issued following a phone call between the two leaders read they discussed “the necessary steps for forming a [...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has expelled US deputy chief of diplomatic mission in Moscow, the embassy’s spokesman Jason Rebholz said on Thursday amid heightened tensions over Ukraine. Bart Gorman, the second-highest official of the US embassy in Moscow, left Russia late January, Rebholz said in an interview with the state-run RIA news age...
