Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday on the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the U.N. human rights office said. Police were out in force early and opened fire in different parts of the biggest city of Yangon after stun […]
Tehran: Iran received 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday that have been donated by the government of China. “This act and those similar to it by the government and nation of China are admirable and will of course remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of the Food […]
India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google, and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payments network, local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network; that would rival the system operated by […]
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 school girls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week. Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told the local news agency that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight […]
A saleswoman was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Hapur when she was returning from work in Ghaziabad to her residence in neighboring Gautam Buddha Nagar late on Wednesday, police said. The Hapur police have registered an FIR against three unidentified men under Section 376D of the IPC. As per reports, the woman had initially […]
The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled Shamima Begum, a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after fleeing to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), should not be allowed to return to the country to challenge the decision, because she poses a security risk. Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and traveled […]
According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the girl told investigators that three people tried to rape her in a field near Rai Kheda village on Monday and when they did not succeed; they poured kerosene and set her on fire. Police included the rape charge after the intervention of Moradabad senior superintendent of police […]
China’s President Xi Jinping has declared complete victory in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. The Chinese leader made the announcement at a ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to mark what has been described as a signature initiative of his tenure. […]
A German court on Wednesday sentenced an Iraqi preacher to more than 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in planning an attack in Germany and collecting funds and fighters for the Islamic State militant group. Prosecutors had accused the 40-year-old preacher, identified as Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah in court documents; of […]
The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged last December with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was initially dropped. The office told the Associated Press news agency that the French actor was not detained when he was handed the preliminary charges on December […]
