International

31-07-2024 KHARTOUM/ CAIRO: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed widespread acts of sexual violence in the capital Khartoum, including gang rape and forced marriages, in its war with the armed forces, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. An HRW report said some attacks had also been attributed to the …

31-07-2024 NEW DELHI: Relatives of an Indian man who died in Russia have said he was killed after being forced to fight in the war against Ukraine, and are petitioning the government to bring his body back to his village in the northern Haryana state. Several men and their families …

31-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has criticized the “extreme opinions” of the Supreme Court as he proposed sweeping reforms including the removal of life appointments. The proposals come after the current conservative-dominated court issued a series of major decisions, including upending the constitutional right to abortion and allowing presidents wide-ranging immunity …

31-07-2024 BANGUI: A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought. The team, working in Gabon, say they discovered evidence deep within rocks showing environmental conditions for animal life 2.1 …

31-07-2024 DHAKA: An image is worth a thousand words, sometimes, it can even stir a nation. In Bangladesh, it was the image of university student Abu Sayeed standing with open arms, stick in hand, facing heavily-armed police alone which many credit as the turning point in the recent widespread protest …

31-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its investigation into the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. In a call with reporters on Monday, the FBI did not give a date for the interview, …

31-07-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli far-right protesters have broken into an army base in a show of support for soldiers accused of severely mistreating a Palestinian prisoner there. Large crowds gathered outside the Sde Teiman compound after Israeli military police entered it to detain the reservists, who are now subject to an …

31-07-2024 CARACAS: Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result. Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains surrounding the city, towards the presidential palace. Protests erupted in …

30-07-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday emphasized the importance of a “just and enduring peace” for Ukraine in a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the State Department said, opens new tab. The discussion came amid a visit being reportedly planned to Ukraine …

30-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president. President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid …