Afghan judge shot dead
AFP, Jalalabad :An Afghan judge was shot dead in an ambush in the eastern city of Jalalabad yesterday, police said, the third court official killed in less than a month.Judge Hafizullah was attacked as...
International
More countries taking repression outside borders
AFP :The murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey, the US detention of a Russian asylum applicant and the abduction of a China-born Swedish citizen from Thailand all have one thing in common.All three...
Rival communist faction calls national strike in Nepal
ReutersA faction of Nepal’s ruling communist party declared a nationwide strike on Thursday to ramp up opposition against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli for dissolving parliament and seeking fresh polls amid a pandemic-induced economic...
America is back
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered an end to arms sales and other support to Saudi Arabia for a war in Yemen that he called a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe” and declared that the...
World must ensure Myanmar coup fails : UN Chief
UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged the world community to make sure Monday’s coup in Myanmar fails.The reversal of elections is “unacceptable”, he said, and coup leaders must be made to understand this...
G7 condemns military coup in Myanmar
Reuters :The Group of Seven largest developed economies on Wednesday condemned the military coup in Myanmar and said it was deeply concerned about the fate of detained political leaders such as Aung San Suu...
Afghan judge killed in Jalalabad, third court official in a month
AFP :An Afghan judge was shot dead in an ambush in the eastern city of Jalalabad Wednesday, police said, the third court official killed in less than a month.Judge Hafizullah was attacked as he...
Shashi Tharoor, 6 journalists face Sedition for farmers’ protest posts
NDTV, New Delhi : Multiple police cases have been filed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists for allegedly “misreporting” and “spreading disharmony” on Republic Day when...
Decade of coups around the world
AFP : As the military grab power again in Myanmar, we look back on some other coups around the world over the past decade: Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is overthrown in August in...
Pakistan receives first Covid vaccine shipment from China
Al Jazeera : Pakistan has received its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, with China donating half a million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the country, the health minister says.A Pakistani military aircraft...
Countries tighten borders against virus as US orders mask-wearing
AFP :A number of countries tightened their borders against a surge in variants of the deadly coronavirus as the United States on Saturday ordered travellers to wear masks on most public transport.With doses of...