Rohingya refugee camps gutted in Delhi fire, leaving hundreds homeless
NEW DELHI, India: A massive fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in Southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on Saturday night, destroying 56 shanties and...
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Algeria cancels France 24’s operating licence
ALGIERS, Algeria: Algeria has cancelled the accreditation of France 24, the communications ministry said on Sunday, a day after parliamentary elections in the former French...
China to launch first human spaceflight since 2016
BEIJING, China: A Chinese spacecraft will blast off from the Gobi Desert on a Long March rocket in the coming days, ferrying three men to...
Putin says US-Russia relationship at ‘its lowest point’ in years
MOSCOW, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin, in advance of his June 16 meeting with United States President Joe Biden, said relations between the US and...
China arrest five officials over ultramarathon deaths
BEIJING, China: China has punished at least 27 government officials deemed responsible for last month’s ultramarathon deaths, the state-run People’s Daily said on Friday, as...
Israel forces kill Palestinian teenager in West Bank protest
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Palestine: A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire during confrontations between protesters and Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities...
Over 1,100 people arrested as China bust crypto-related money laundering gang
BEIJING, China: Police in China arrested over 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent...
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in West Bank
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Palestine: Three Palestinians were killed early Thursday by special Israeli forces who were on an arrest mission in the northern West Bank. One...
Aboriginal mother to take son’s custodial death case to UN
SYDNEY, Australia: Australian mother Leetona Dungay and a team of lawyers will take a claim over her son’s death in custody to the United Nations....
Girls among 51 children abducted by Mozambique fighters
MAPUTO, Mozambique: Save the Children, a United Kingdom-based non-governmental organisation, has said fighters in conflict-hit northern Mozambique abducted dozens of children during raids in 2020....