Category: World

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case brought against her country at the World Court was “incomplete and misleading” as she began her defence to accusations of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority on Wednesday. Gambia, a small West African country, has launched a case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, […]

Taliban suicide bombers targeted a key United States military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a major attack that wounded more than 70 civilians, officials said, amid renewed peace talks between US and the militants. The early morning assault began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vehicle outside a hospital building near Bagram military […]

Protesters burned tires and blocked highways and rail tracks in India’s remote northeast for a second day on Wednesday as the upper house of parliament began debating legislation that would grant citizenship to persecuted Hindus and other religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The bill was approved on Monday in the lower house, where […]

New Zealand police said on Tuesday they were opening a criminal investigation into the deaths of tourists on a volcanic island where a powerful eruption of ash and scalding steam occurred as dozens of people were exploring the barren landscape. Five deaths were confirmed after Monday’s eruption of the White Island volcano. Eight other people […]

The United States Commission on International Religion Freedom (USCIRF) has sought sanctions against Indian Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal leadership if the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill is passed by the parliament, reported Scroll.in on Tuesday. Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill in India’s lower house on Monday amid raucous debate. Opposition parties […]

Seven Nobel peace laureates, in a statement, have called on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge the crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims and hold the country’s army commanders responsible, it emerged on Tuesday. The case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague relates to a harsh counterinsurgency campaign waged by the […]

The Afghan Taliban abducted as many as 45 elderly family members of a late Afghan government employee who were attending his funeral, officials said on Tuesday. The Taliban singled out the old men from a funeral procession carrying the deceased employee’s coffin to a graveyard, according to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi. The young men […]

Mass rapes, the burning alive of Muslim Rohingya families in their homes and the killing with knives of dozens of children were described by Gambia’s legal team as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the United Nation’s highest court on Tuesday. Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, looked […]

China on Monday defended its vast network of re-education camps in Xinjiang and said it would continue “training” residents, following explosive government document leaks detailing surveillance and control of the region’s Uighur population. Rights groups estimate more than a million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are held in the facilities, which reports describe as […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may change his views toward United States President Donald Trump if he continues making “inappropriate, dangerous” comments, a senior Pyongyang official said on Monday, calling him an “impatient, old man.” Kim Yong Chol, a senior North Korean official who was instrumental in arranging a failed second summit between Kim […]