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...
Hate and hypocrisy: White supremacy and anti-Asian violence in the West
“Before Los Angeles public schools shut campuses in mid-March, bullies in the San Fernando Valley accused a 16-year-old Asian boy of having the coronavirus simply...
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...
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...
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....
Starvation and disease: UN warns of mass deaths in Myanmar as thousands flee fighting
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar: The A United Nations (UN) has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after “brutal, indiscriminate attacks” by...