British police arrested over 20 people on suspicion of terrorism offences after they showed support for the newly banned Palestine Action group in London on Saturday, hours after the proscription came into effect. The government moved to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws last month after its activists broke into a Royal Air Force base…
Diplomats from the BRICS group of developing nations have agreed on a joint declaration of their leaders at a summit in Rio de Janeiro this week, three people familiar with the talks said on Saturday. The shared statement, which a gathering of their foreign ministers failed to achieve in April, underscores the group’s commitment to…
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama, turned 90 on Sunday after a week of celebrations by followers during which he riled China again and spoke about his hope to live beyond 130 and reincarnate after dying. The Nobel laureate is regarded as one of the world’s most influential religious leaders, with a…
China said on Sunday it has opened a third extension of the M503 flight route, which is just west of an unofficial dividing line in the Taiwan Strait, with Taipei protesting this was a “unilateral” move aimed at changing the strait’s status quo. China last year moved the M503 route closer to the median line,…
Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims took part in the ceremony of Ashura in Karbala on Sunday amid heavy security presence in the city. Ashura rituals are usually carried out in religious sites in different locations marking the holiest day on the Shi’ite Muslim calendar. Processions of men beating drums marched and beat their backs with steel…
Authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday denied permission for the 10th Muharram (Ashura) procession to proceed in the capital of the valley, Srinagar. According to Kashmir Media Service, as the authorities have continued the decades-old ban on Ashura processions along the traditional route from Abi Guzar to Zadibal in Srinagar, the…
Residents fear the clearances will erase not just buildings, but their own status as refuge TULKAREM (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the landscape has been transformed after Israeli army bulldozers ploughed through its two refugee camps in what the military called a hunt for Palestinian militants. The army gave…
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it has struck over 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past day. The strikes came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to fly to Washington for talks at the White House aimed at…
South Korean special prosecutors filed a new request on Sunday to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol, a day after he appeared before them for questioning over his declaration of martial law last year. Yoon, who is facing a criminal trial on insurrection charges over the martial law declaration in December, was arrested in January…
RAWALPINDI: A total of 65 processions, 16 of them categorised as most sensitive, eight as less sensitive and 41 as normal, will be taken out on Ashura in Rawalpindi amid tight security arrangements. The processions will be monitored by about 2,000 CCTV cameras installed under the Safe City project in the garrison city on Sunday….
