Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced May 14 as the date for parliamentary and presidential elections. He said in a televised speech that the voting for the election of the president and members of parliament in the country will be held on May 14. President Erdoğan said that the elections are being held before…
The agreement between Saudi Arabia and China was concluded in China; Photo: File Riyadh / Tehran: Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore ties within two months and reopen their decade-long embassies. According to the World News Agency, in the talks held in Beijing, the capital of China, the restoration of diplomatic relations between…
Muslims are being killed in the name of cow raksha in Modi government, Photo: File Patna: Activists of an extremist Hindu party in India beat a Muslim to death and injured another with rods and sticks on suspicion of carrying beef. According to Indian media, 56-year-old Naseem Qureshi was chased by a group of fanatical…
Bahrain International Airport Bahrain canceled visas issued to Human Rights Watch representatives to attend an international parliamentary conference. This would be the first time since 2012 that Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives would visit the Gulf country. The 146th session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) will begin in Bahrain from Saturday. HRW has permanent…
Influenza kills two in India; Photo: File New Delhi: In India, the number of patients infected with influenza A virus type H3N2 has doubled, while two deaths have also been reported in Haryana and Karnataka. According to the World News Agency, two deadly types of influenza have started to rise in the cities after Corona….
File photo A Korean Airlines passenger plane was evacuated after pistol bullets were found. 9 mm bullets were recovered from a passenger on the plane before take off at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. The plane was scheduled to depart for Manila at 8:30 am, carrying 218 passengers and 12 airline crew members. After various…
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said the humanitarian supplies had been off-loaded in Chasiv Yar, which is some 10 kilometres to the west of Bakhmut, which Russian forces are attempting to wrest control from Ukrainian troops. After months of fighting, the mercenary Wagner Group now claims to be in control of the eastern part…
Gender equality in the judiciary has been historically unbalanced, including at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The first woman to be elected as a member of the ICJ in 1995 was Dame Rosalyn Higgins, who in 2006 also became the first female President of the Court. …
“Now is the time for us to act in unison, to secure a nationwide ceasefire, advance the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people, and create the conditions necessary for the voluntary return of refugees in safety and dignity, with our strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Syria, and to regional…
In an appeal for $178 million to support humanitarian assistance across the seven affected countries in the Greater Horn region, veteran WHO worker Liesbeth Aelbrecht warned that the situation was worse than anything she’d seen in more than two decades in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. “These 48 million people do include as…
