Category: World

A statue, depicting the famous scene of a sailor kissing a woman in New York’s Times Square as people celebrate the end of World War II, has been vandalised with red spray paint spelling out #MeToo. The graffiti covers the ankle-to-knee area of the left leg of the woman being kissed, said police in Sarasota, […]

UNITED NATIONS: Expressing deep concern “at the increase in tensions between India and Pakistan”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has asked both sides to exercise maximum restraint and offered his “good offices” to ease the crisis. “The secretary general stresses the importance for both sides to exercise maximum restraint and take immediate steps to de-escalate […]

Indian police are often complicit in killings carried out by cow vigilante groups, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, calling on authorities to take tougher action to halt lynchings. The slaughter of cows — revered by Hindus — is a powder-keg issue in secular India. Men accused of killing or trading in cattle have increasingly […]

The suicide bomber who carried out last week’s attack that killed 27 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was a Pakistani national, the elite force claimed on Tuesday. “The suicide bomber was named Hafez Mohammad-Ali and was from Pakistan,” alleged Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Guards’ ground forces, quoted by the force’s Sepah news agency. The February 13 […]

The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details. It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China, updated constantly with GPS coordinates of their precise whereabouts. Alongside their names, birthdates and places of employment, there were notes on the places […]

The Iranian foreign minister’s passionate defense of his country’s interests at the Munich Security Conference has made him “a famous person” in China, his Chinese counterpart told him on Tuesday, as the sides met amid efforts to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is leading an Iranian delegation to […]

Sixteen US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday over his decision to declare a national emergency to fund a wall on the southern border with Mexico, saying the move violated the constitution. Trump announced the emergency on Friday in order to bypass Congress, which approved only a quarter of the $5.6 billion he wanted for the wall in a […]

Senator Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday that he is running for president, launching a second bid for the White House after a surprisingly strong run for the Democratic nomination in 2016. Sanders, 77, made the announcement in a radio interview in his home state of Vermont. “I wanted to let the people of the state […]

German fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has passed away. The long-time creative director of luxury fashion brand, Chanel passed away at 85 reportedly after weeks of ill health; Lagerfeld began his career as an assistant to Pierre Balmain in 1955, joined Chanel in 1983 and spent a record-breaking 36 years at the house. In a 7 decade career, […]

Amnesty India has asked Indian government authorities to ensure that “ordinary Kashmiri women and men do not face targeted attacks, harassment and arbitrary arrests” as tensions simmer in the aftermath of last week’s attack in occupied Kashmir’s Pulwama area. The Amnesty India press release, issued on Tuesday, takes note of media reports that “Kashmiri university students […]