Iran condemns UN experts’ report on protest crackdown as ‘false’, ‘biased’
Al jazeera : Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and...
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US ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest
Reuters : Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical...
Afghanistan’s singing sisters defying the Taliban from under a burka
BBC : As the world was watching the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, two sisters in Kabul were among millions of women in...
Israel hits landmark residential tower in Rafah as Gaza truce talks stall
Al jazeera : Israeli forces have struck one of the largest residential towers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, residents said, stepping up pressure...
Biden takes on Trump in fiery State of the Union speech
Reuters : President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his case for re-election in a fiery State of the Union speech that accused Donald Trump...
Sunak’s mother-in-law appointed to Indian parliament
AFP : The mother-in-law of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was appointed today (8 March) to serve in India’s parliament, capping a career working for...
North Korea conducts artillery firing drills
AP : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised artillery firing drills aimed at boosting combat readiness, state media reported Friday, days after his country...
Six Sri Lankans knifed to death in Canada
Reuters : Six people from Sri Lanka, including a mother and four young children, were knifed to death in the Canadian capital Ottawa late on...
India opens new naval base near Maldives
Reuters : India on Wednesday opened a new naval base on its Indian Ocean island close to the Maldives, as ties with Male remain tense...
275 pupils missing after gunmen storm school in Nigeria
Al Jazeera : Hundreds of people are missing after gunmen attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria in the second mass abduction within a week in...
US embassy warns of imminent attack in Moscow
Reuters : The US embassy in Russia warned that “extremists” had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they...
Sweden officially joins Nato
Deutsche Welle : After two centuries of neutrality and two years of diplomacy, Sweden officially became the 32nd member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...