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The Hague, Sept 25 (AFP/APP): Alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga will go on trial in The Hague on Thursday, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 ethnic slaughter that devastated the small central African nation. Kabuga’s trial will open at 0800 GMT […]

Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sept 25 (AFP/APP): A volunteer organisation run by ex-soldiers, Mozart says it wants to save lives in Ukraine by offering aid and military training — choosing its name as a “tongue in cheek” nod to the notorious Russian paramilitary group Wagner. The […]

JAKARTA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua/APP): A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s western province of Aceh on Saturday morning, but did not leave casualties or damages, an agency and an official said. The country’s meteorology and geophysics agency did not issue a tsunami warning. The quake jolted […]

Damascus, Sept 22 (AFP/APP): At least 34 migrants died when the boat they were travelling in sank off Syria’s coast after departing from neighbouring Lebanon, the government in Damascus said on Thursday. Lebanon, a country which hosts more than a million refugees from Syria’s civil […]

ISLAMABAD, SEP 22 (Online): Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial has remarked PTI should play its role in parliament. He further observed millions of people have been rendered homeless in floods at present. Neither drinking water is available nor food to eat. People […]

United Nations, United States, Sept 21 (AFP/APP): Top European Union diplomats will hold an emergency meeting late Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations to discuss potential new sanctions against Russia after Moscow called up reservists to fight its war in Ukraine. EU foreign […]

MOSCOW – September 21 (ONLINE) Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, pointing to the threats to the country’s existence posed by the West and the inevitable nature of the special military operation in Ukraine. […]

TEHRAN – September 21 (ONLINE) Several Iranian government and state-affiliated media websites are down after a Twitter account linked to the “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed to have launched cyberattacks on them, aimed at supporting protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old woman from […]

Moscow, Sept 21 (AFP/APP):President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilisation and vowed on Wednesday to use “all available means” to protect Russian territory, after Moscow-held regions of Ukraine suddenly announced annexation referendums. The votes, already denounced by Kyiv and the West as a “sham”, […]

TORONTO 20 Sep (Online): In an unprecedented show of power, more than 110,000 Canadian Sikhs took part in voting for the Khalistan Referendum in Brampton, Ontario, to demand an independent state of Khalistan with Shimla as its capital. Organised by the pro-Khalistani advocacy group Sikhs […]