Mustafa A, 35, is sentenced to 12 years in prison for war crimes in Syria by a district court in The Hague. A district court in The Hague has convicted a member of a Syrian pro-government armed group of crimes against humanity for complicity in torture and illegal arrest in…
Kohli will miss the Tests in Hyderabad and Rajkot after missing the first T20 against Afghanistan for the same reason. India batter Virat Kohli will miss his side’s first two Test matches against England due to personal reasons, the country’s cricket board confirms. The former national team captain missed the…
The appeal comes as the number of people forced to migrate reached 117 million by the end of 2022, the IOM said. The United Nations migration agency has launched its first “global appeal”, aiming to drum up $7.9bn to help those forced to leave their homes due to everything from…
Former United States President Donald Trump may testify on Monday in a defamation trial over his 2019 comments branding writer E Jean Carroll a liar who faked a sexual attack to sell a memoir. He plans to be in court as the New York trial resumes after a weekend break….
On January 1, Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, lost his cool at a news conference in Islamabad. When asked about the Baloch people who had been protesting in the Pakistani capital, demanding government action on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, Kakar became visibly angry. He called those demonstrating “relatives of…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple, delivering on a crucial Hindu nationalist pledge that he hopes will catapult the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a record third successive term in upcoming general elections. Modi, dressed in a traditional kurta tunic, led the opening ceremony…
A month ago, more than 300 scholars and thinkers – among them Arturo Escobar, Gloria Wekker, Helen Verran, Erik Swyngedouw, Zoe Todd, Rashid Khalidi, Catherine Walsh – signed an open letter denouncing German complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians and German censorship of its critics. Since then, each word…
Activists in Bashkortostan face 15 years in prison on charges of organising ‘mass riots’, assaulting public officials. Russian authorities have laid serious criminal charges against four people following a large protest in the central region of Bashkortosan. Security forces in the city of Ufa, in the Urals mountains, arrested the…
India’s stock market is shut for the day. Central government offices are only open for half the day. Neighbourhood watch parties have been organised across the country. And tens of millions of Indians are tuned into one event: the consecration of a temple to the Hindu god Ram in the…
Rescue efforts under way in mountainous area of southwestern China after pre-dawn disaster. Rescue efforts are under way in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province after at least 47 people were buried in a landslide. State news agency Xinhua reported that the disaster struck just before 6am (22:00 GMT on Sunday)…
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