Smuggling: Chinese national gets 9-year prison term in Ethiopia
Mar 17, 2022, at 04:38 am
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has sentenced a Chinese national to nine years in jail for reportedly trying to smuggle highly censored communication gear into the country, media reports said.
Mar 17, 2022, at 04:35 am
Kabul: A large number of women demonstrated in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday against the Taliban when they also distanced themselves from prominent women’s rights activist Fatima Gailani, stating that she does not represent them.
Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky addresses US lawmakers, appeals for greater Western intervention
Mar 17, 2022, at 03:39 am
Washington/IBNS: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday made an emotive appeal to United States lawmakers for greater Western intervention against the Russian attack.
Pakistan: Protesters stopped from entering Quetta’s Red Zone
Mar 16, 2022, at 11:53 pm
Quetta: Police on Tuesday prevented an attempt of the Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance to enter the Red Zone in Pakistan's Quetta city to stage a sit-in in support of their demands.
BNM plans to organize protests in UK, South Korea against Pakistan's 'atrocities' in Balochistan
Mar 16, 2022, at 11:14 pm
Balochistan: The Baloch National Movement has announced it will host a series of protests in the UK and South Korea against Pakistan's 'atrocities' in Balochistan.
Guterres vows to improve UN’s handling of sexual exploitation and abuse
Mar 16, 2022, at 10:46 pm
New York: Secretary-General António Guterres released his annual update on the Organization’s efforts to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) on Tuesday, dovetailing with his system-wide strategy – launched in 2017 - to stamp out incidents by placing victims at the heart of efforts, throughout the system.
Pakistan: 5 trans women shot, injured in Mansehra
Mar 16, 2022, at 10:34 pm
Mansehra: A group of armed people entered the house and shot and injured five trans women in Pakistan's Mansehra city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, media reports said on Wednesday.
Yemen war now ‘chronic emergency’ as millions face hunger
Mar 16, 2022, at 09:20 pm
New York: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is living in a chronic state of emergency, marked by hunger, disease and other miseries that are rising faster than aid agencies can reverse, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the Special Envoy for the country called for joint efforts by Yemenis and the international community to break the entrenched cycle of violence.
Afghanistan: Food insecurity and malnutrition threaten ‘an entire generation’
Mar 16, 2022, at 07:21 pm
New York: People in Afghanistan are today facing a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of “unparalleled proportions”, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator said on Tuesday.
Myanmar: ‘Appalling’ violations demand ‘unified and resolute international response’
Mar 16, 2022, at 07:11 pm
New York: Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 1,600 people and detained more than 12,500, since the military coup last year, the UN rights office said on Tuesday.
UN on ‘positive trajectory’ towards full gender parity
Mar 16, 2022, at 07:04 pm
New York: Gender equality and women’s rights are essential to a renewed social contract anchored in human rights - the new Agenda for Peace - the UN chief told a meeting on Tuesday aimed at advancing women’s leadership worldwide.
Syria: Children ‘live in fear of violence’, scarred by 11 years of war
Mar 16, 2022, at 06:34 pm
New York: Nearly five million children born in Syria since March 2011 have known nothing but conflict. After 11 years of war, the crisis continues to leave them struggling with physical and psychological scars, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Ukraine war creating a child refugee almost every second: UNICEF
Mar 16, 2022, at 06:28 pm
New York: Almost one child per second in Ukraine is becoming a refugee of the war, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as the total number of people who have now fled the country since the Russian invasion began, passed three million.
Mar 16, 2022, at 06:20 pm
Moscow: The Russian Foreign Ministry has put the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Defence Minister Anita Anand to what it calls its "black list".
New Zealand reopens border for tourism
Mar 16, 2022, at 05:48 pm
Wellington: The New Zealand government is bringing forward the date for the reopening of the border to tourists in time for the Australian school holidays, in a move that will help accelerate the economic recovery from COVID-19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday.
Mar 16, 2022, at 02:53 pm
Fox News Channel cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra 'Sasha' Kuvshynova were killed close to war-hit Ukraine's Kyiv city when the vehicle in which they were travelling came under attack.
South Korean military says North Korean missile launch failed
Mar 16, 2022, at 02:13 pm
Seoul: South Korea on Wednesday said North Korea's attempt to launch an unidentified projectile has failed, media reports said.
Russia bans Joe Biden, several top US officials from entering country in reciprocal move
Mar 16, 2022, at 05:16 am
Moscow/IBNS: Russia's foreign ministry on Tuesday announced a ban on United States President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials' entry into the country in a response to US sanctions.
Pakistan: Homeless person had Rs 4 billion in Swiss bank
Mar 16, 2022, at 02:02 am
Islamabad: An episode of fake accounts operating in Pakistan became evident from the fact that the name of a homeless person in Lahore recently emerged who held two accounts with a combined balance running around four billion rupees in a Swiss Bank.
Yemen: Three killed in suicide attack
Mar 16, 2022, at 01:57 am
Sanaa/UNI/Sputnik: Three soldiers accompanying one of the separatist commanders were killed and seven guards injured in a suicide attack in Abyan governorate, southern Yemen, a source in the government told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Vandalism cannot be ruled out in Taiwan's Taoyuan airport power outage: Authority
Mar 16, 2022, at 01:52 am
Taipei, Taiwan: Airport authorities doubt the unexpected power outage at Terminal 2 of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on March 11 may have been an act of vandalism.
COVID-19: Panic selling grips Chinese tech stocks again amid rising concerns over lockdown
Mar 16, 2022, at 01:43 am
Hong Kong: The relentless sell-off in Chinese technology stocks continued in Hong Kong on Monday amid lockdown imposed in tech hub Shenzhen due to COVID-19 spike.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes extending martial law in Ukraine
Mar 16, 2022, at 12:53 am
Kiev/UNI/Xinhua: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a bill to the parliament, proposing the extension of the current martial law in Ukraine, government-run Ukrinform news agency reported Tuesday.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Anti-war protesting journalist on Russian TV goes missing
Mar 15, 2022, at 11:52 pm
Moscow: A Russian journalist, who grabbed international attention after she burst on to a live TV news programme to protest against the ongoing war in Ukraine, has gone missing, media reports said.
China crimps contact between Tibetans abroad and in Tibet: Reports
Mar 15, 2022, at 11:35 pm
Beijing: The Chinese government has imposed restrictions and stepped up its surveillance measures to prevent online communications between Tibetans and their family members and friends, who are staying abroad.
Bangladesh: Two JMB members jailed over Hussaini Dalan bombing before Tazia procession
Mar 15, 2022, at 10:58 pm
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday sentenced two members of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to different prison terms in a case filed over the bomb blasts at Hussaini Dalan in 2015.
UN rights chief decries mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia
Mar 15, 2022, at 07:19 pm
New York: The UN human rights chief has condemned the beheading of 81 people by Saudi Arabia during the course of a single day, charged with terrorism-related offences.
Ukraine: ‘We need peace now’ declares Guterres, warning of global hunger meltdown
Mar 15, 2022, at 07:06 pm
Ukraine is being “decimated before the eyes of the world” with Russia’s military offensive against civilians “reaching terrifying proportions”, said the UN chief on Monday, warning that a resulting meltdown of the global economy is provoking a hunger crisis that is hitting the poorest, hardest.
Women and girls must lead battle against ‘widespread and interlinked crises’
Mar 15, 2022, at 06:55 pm
New York: To forge a sustainable future for us all, “women and girls must be front and centre, leading the way”. Secretary-General António Guterres told the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Monday.
Yemen facing ‘outright catastrophe’ over rising hunger, warn UN humanitarians
Mar 15, 2022, at 06:41 pm
New York: Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday, as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity.