Argentina backs UN rights council condemnation of Quran burnings
Buenos Aires Times :The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to condemn recent burning incidents of Muslim holy book, but many countries declined to back...
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Climate change spurs deadly monsoon rains in India
Deutsche Welle : Intense monsoon rains have lashed parts of northern India over the past few days, leaving a trail of death and destruction, as...
UN rights council condemns Koran burnings despite splits
AFP : The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to condemn recent Koran burning incidents, but many countries declined to back the measure, fearing it...
Nepal retrieves bodies of six dead in helicopter crash, five Mexicans among them
Reuters :Authorities in Nepal have retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, including five Mexican nationals, authorities said,...
Rescuers save 86 migrants from boat near Canary Islands
AFP :Spain’s coastguard said Monday it rescued 86 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa aboard a boat near the Canary Islands that had been spotted earlier in...
ASEAN chair urges unity as top diplomats meet amid Myanmar discord
Reuters :ASEAN chair Indonesia on Tuesday stressed the importance of the regional bloc’s unity in remaining credible, as its foreign ministers started talks expected to...
Signs of the human era, from nuclear fallout to microplastics
AFP :As scientists make the case that humans have fundamentally transformed the planet enough to warrant our own geological epoch, another question arises: is there...
‘Putin met with Wagner chief in Moscow after failed mutiny’
AFP :The Kremlin said Monday that President Vladimir Putin had met with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 29 in the Kremlin, days after the...
145 migrants arrive on Lampedusa in 3 landings on Sunday
AP :In total 145 migrants and refugees landed on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Sunday in three separate landings since midnight.The numbers are...
Syria: More than a decade of torture, murder, disappearances
Deutsche Welle :Finally, at the end of February this year, the family of Abdullah Mohamed al-Razouki was able to ascertain what they had already suspected:...
One dead, 7 missing in China highway landslide
Reuters :One person has died and seven were missing after a landslide overtook a highway construction site on an expressway in central China, local government...
Israeli protests reignite as Netanyahu pushes new justice bill
Reuters :Israel’s business hub Tel Aviv saw the biggest anti-government protest in weeks on Saturday against a renewed push by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right...