The Hindustan Times :The eight-phase West Bengal assembly elections will begin on March 27, announced the Election Commission on Friday. The eastern state is looking at a bi-polar contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress...
Al Jazeera :Greek prosecutors have ordered a former director of the National Theatre be remanded after hearing his plea over child rape allegations, his lawyer said.Dimitris Lignadis resigned from his post this month and...
Al Jazeera :Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 schoolgirls 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,...
Reuters :Iran is threatening to end a deal struck with the U.N. nuclear watchdog last weekend temporarily salvaging much monitoring of its activities if the agency’s board endorses a U.S.-led push to criticise Tehran...
Reuters :Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond accused the nation’s government on Friday of acting illegally in dealing with a case against him in a row that threatens to damage the Scottish independence movement.The...
BBC Online :Sri Lanka has reversed a controversial mandatory order to cremate the bodies of all those who died of Covid-19.Critics had said the order was intended to target minorities and did not respect...
Al Jazeera :Former President Donald Trump returns to the US political stage on Sunday with a highly anticipated speech to Republican grassroots activists at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.Making his first appearance since...
Reuters :A Malaysian man on Thursday won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex “against the order of nature,” raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in the mostly Muslim...
BBC Online :Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms.The news code legislation had been fiercely opposed by the US tech giants.Last week...
AFP, Jakarta :Rescuers hunted for at least one person still missing on Thursday after an illegal gold mine collapse in Indonesia killed six people.A landslide Wednesday evening buried the remote site on Sulawesi island’s...
Reuters, Singapore :Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as pro-democracy demonstrators continued to stage rallies to protest the military seizing...
Reuters :A declassified version of a US intelligence report expected to be released on Thursday finds that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, four US officials...
