“A society can only succeed on its path towards sustainable peace and development when all its constituencies can participate on an equal footing,” Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said ahead of progress reports delivered by high-level representatives of Colombia, The Gambia, and Timor-Leste. The preventive potential of transitional justice can only be…
Dozens of civilians across the country were killed and injured, and homes and other vital infrastructure, destroyed. More than 20 people were killed in the small central city of Uman alone, when their apartment building collapsed after it was hit, according to international media reports. ‘Inexcusable’ attacks “It is just inexcusable that in places like…
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Khartoum area. The newly displaced have found shelter in existing refugee camps further east and south, creating new humanitarian…
The student was saluted by the teachers and students at the school: Photo: Social Media Michigan: The child’s presence of mind saved the lives of 66 students when the bus driver passed out. According to foreign media, a female bus driver suddenly fainted while driving in the American state of Michigan. The Class 7 student…
File photo Meghan Markle’s half-sister Samantha Markle has made some shocking revelations about her marriage to Prince Harry. Meghan Markle’s father, brother and half-sister are scheduled to give an interview to a TV channel ahead of King Charles’ coronation. A trailer of the said interview has been shared by the broadcaster on micro-blogging website Twitter….
File photo Paramilitary forces in Sudan have fired on the aircraft involved in the Turkish evacuation operation. The Sudanese army says that the Turkish plane was targeted while landing at the airport on the outskirts of Khartoum. According to the Sudanese military, the firing injured one of the plane’s crew members and damaged the fuel…
File photo British Prime Minister Rishi Sonik’s mother-in-law Sudha Murthy has claimed that her daughter Akshita Murthy made her husband the Prime Minister. In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, Sudha Murthy is seen saying that because of my daughter, Rishi Sonik is rapidly rising to power and has become the…
File photo Mukesh Ambani, the richest businessman in Asia and India, whose net worth is 85 billion dollars, i.e. more than 7 lakh crore rupees, also has a big heart. According to Indian media reports, the chairman of Reliance Industries has gifted his trusted employee Manoj Modi a 22-storey residential building in a posh location…
Photo courtesy of Foreign Media Ukrainian authorities have claimed that Russia launched missile attacks in the capital Kyiv, central and southern regions late at night, killing five people and injuring several others. A Russian missile strike hit a residential building in the central region of Uman, killing 3 people and injuring 8, according to Ukrainian…
File photo Turkey inaugurated the country’s first nuclear power plant built with the cooperation of Russia. Turkey’s name has also been included in the list of countries with nuclear capability after receiving the status of a regular ‘nuclear power plant’ after the delivery of nuclear fuel to the ‘Acuo Power Plant’ built with the cooperation…
