Category: World

BERLIN: The UN’s top refugee official urged India to ensure no one is left stateless by the exclusion of nearly two million people from a citizenship list in Assam state. “Any process that could leave large numbers of people without a nationality would be an enormous blow to global efforts to eradicate statelessness,” Filippo Grandi, […]

The man who killed seven people and wounded 22 others in a rolling rampage across West Texas on Saturday was fired from his trucking job hours before the massacre, media and officials reported. Details about the Labor Day weekend shooting and the names of some of the victims were emerging online and from officials on Sunday and […]

Hong Kong pupils made human chains at schools early Monday and protesters disrupted rush-hour trains as the city’s pro-democracy movement returned to action after a weekend which brought some of the worst violence in three months of anti-government protests. The global financial hub is in the grip of an unprecedented crisis as a largely leaderless movement has […]

Berlin zoo said on Monday its resident panda Meng Meng had delivered twins, as it voiced delight at the first such births in the country. “Meng Meng became a mom – twice! We are so happy, we are speechless,” the zoo said on Twitter, also posting a video of the new mother guiding one of […]

KIRYAT SHMONA: Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the Lebanese border on Sunday after a week of rising tensions, but no casualties were reported following the brief flare-up and UN officials immediately urged restraint. Israel said it responded with around 100 artillery shells after Hezbollah fired two or three anti-tank missiles at a battalion headquarters […]

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court on Sunday banned two ultra-nationalist Buddhist organisations from demonstrating against a Muslim holy day, the first on the island since the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunase­kera said Colombo Magistrate’s court issued restraining orders against the two groups led by Buddhist monks who planned to disrupt a […]

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said on Sunday he was late to his weekly Angelus prayer because he had been stuck in a Vatican elevator and had to be freed by firemen. He followed the tale of his rescue with a surprise announcement about the creation of 13 new, red-hatted cardinals of the Catholic Church — […]

Almost two million people in northeast India were left facing statelessness on Saturday after the state of Assam published a citizenship list aimed at weeding out “foreign infiltrators”, in a process the central government wants to replicate nationwide. A total of 31.1 million people were included in a National Register of Citizens (NRC), but 1.9 […]

Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp will finally go on trial in 2021, almost two decades after the devastating Al-Qaeda attack, the New York Times reported Friday. A military judge at the US Navy’s Guantanamo, Cuba base set the date for the death-penalty trial for […]

Demonstrations are expected across Britain on Saturday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament in the final weeks before Brexit. The protests come ahead of an intense political week in which Johnson’s opponents will seek to block the move in court and legislate against a no-deal departure from the European Union. Organisers said […]