France: Government shuts places of worship to check Islamic separatism
Jan 16, 2021, at 09:50 pm
Paris/UNI: As part of its campaign to curb the propagation of radical Islamic ideology and separatism, France has closed nine places of worship, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said here.
US puts Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation to blacklist
Jan 16, 2021, at 09:27 pm
Washington: The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in the Department of Commerce (Commerce) added Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to the Entity List and Chinese company Skyrizon to the Military End-User (MEU) List.
Donald Trump amends order to address threat from securities investment in Chinese military companies
Jan 16, 2021, at 04:43 pm
Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to address the threat from securities investments that finance Chinese military companies, the White House said in a statement.
Tibetan community accuse China of sabotaging polls
Jan 16, 2021, at 04:38 pm
Lhasa: The Tibetan community has accused China of attempting to sabotage the Tibetan government in exile and Tibetan Parliament's election.
Child labour ‘robs children of their future’, scourge must end urges UN
Jan 16, 2021, at 03:28 pm
New York: Although child labour has decreased significantly over the last decade, one-in-ten children are still caught up in harmful work, the UN’s labour agency said on Friday, kicking off a year-long bid to eradicate the practice.
Pandemic curbs trend towards ever-increasing migration
Jan 16, 2021, at 03:19 pm
New York: Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in 2020, compared to the year 2000, a new UN report revealed on Friday.
Jan 16, 2021, at 03:09 pm
New York: “Worsening” election violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced 120,000 people from their homes, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday, as the UN Secretary-General also condemned another attack by combatants on a UN convoy, which left a peacekeeper from Burundi dead, and two others wounded.
UN steps up support for thousands left homeless after fire at Rohingya refugee camp
Jan 16, 2021, at 03:04 pm
New York: UN agencies have stepped up efforts to help thousands of Rohingya refugees left without shelter after a devastating fire tore through a crowded refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh on Thursday.
Afghanistan: Local radio station attacked in Kunduz
Jan 16, 2021, at 02:56 pm
Kunduz: An imam of a mosque, along with a mob, attacked local radio station Zohra Radio in Afghanistani city of Kunduz recently, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Imran Khan’s spokesperson resigns over difference on 'Machh incident'
Jan 16, 2021, at 07:03 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s spokesperson Nadeem Afzal Chan has resigned from his position, media reports said on Friday.
Hazaras targeted in Pakistan due to govt's anti-Shia militancy
Jan 16, 2021, at 07:00 am
Islamabad: The targeted killing of Hazara community members in Pakistan is a reflection that the state was simultaneously allowing anti-Shia hysteria to be propagated across the nation, The Diplomat reported.
Jan 16, 2021, at 02:11 am
Canada/IBNS: An investigation by CBC's 'Marketplace' of the factories of Malaysia producing some of the life-saving equipment including Personal Protective Equipments (PPE)s Canadian health-care workers are using revealed appalling, unhealthy, and inhuman conditions of workers.
Jammu and Kashmir: 2-day training programme on GeM begins at Kashmir University
Jan 15, 2021, at 10:34 pm
Srinagar: Registrar of University of Kashmir Dr Nisar Ahmad Mir inaugurated on Thursday a two-day training programme for officers and officials of the varsity about the Government e-Market Place (GeM).
PTI foreign funding case: PDM to march to ECP's office in Islamabad on Jan 19
Jan 15, 2021, at 10:17 pm
Putting pressure on the Pakistan government, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb has said her party, under the umbrella of the 10-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), would take out rallies from different areas of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Jan 19 that would merge into one big rally before heading towards the office of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the capital.
Ethiopia: Safe access and swift action needed for refugees in Tigray
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:53 pm
New York: The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday expressed his deep concern over the humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including its impact on Eritrean refugees hosted there.
UN officials fear US terrorist designation will hasten famine in Yemen
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:31 pm
Senior UN officials have expressed concern over the potential impact of the decision by the United States to designate Yemen’s Ansar Allah, more commonly known as the Houthi movement, a terrorist group, the Security Council heard on Thursday.
Illegal funding: Imran Khan's PTI blames its agent in US
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:19 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has moved away from its initial stance of denying any illegal funding from the United States and said that if any funds were collected illegally through two US companies registered after Imran Khan’s written instructions, the responsibility lies with their agents managing the two limited liability companies.
Pakistan: Minister directed to stop seminary students from joining PDM's rally
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:16 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has been directed to prevent the students of religious seminaries from participating in the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) march on Islamabad next month, media reports said.
Chinese atrocities: Missing Uyghur doctor found detained in Xinjiang
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:11 pm
Beijing: A Uyghur doctor, who was associated with a hospital in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), was detained in an internment camp in 2017, media reports said.
Philippines: Authorities apprehend 8 suspected Chinese members of kidnap gang
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:08 pm
Manila: Philippines recently said eight members of a Chinese kidnap-for-ransom gang have been apprehended, media reports said.
Rights group feels China is witnessing global resistance to deepening repression
Jan 15, 2021, at 04:03 pm
The Chinese government’s heightened repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang are emblematic of the worsening human rights situation under President Xi Jinping, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2021.
Four UN peacekeepers killed, five wounded in attack in Mali
Jan 15, 2021, at 03:05 pm
New York: Four United Nations peacekeepers in Mali were killed and five others wounded in an attack by unidentified armed elements on Wednesday, the UN mission in the country has said.
Lady Gaga to sing national anthem at Joe Biden's star-studded inauguration
Jan 15, 2021, at 05:31 am
Washington/IBNS: Pop superstar Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem during Joe Biden's swearing-in as US president on January 20.
Jan 15, 2021, at 02:53 am
Washington: Targeting the Chinese Communist Party, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the former believes in international relations that are controlled in a way that will not create security, freedom and prosperity.
Montreal anti-government website promoting armed protests in US shuts down
Jan 15, 2021, at 02:45 am
Montreal/IBNS: An anti-government website promoting armed protests in the United States ahead of the presidential inauguration was shut down on Jan 13 morning by the company after CBC News revealed its cloud servers were located in Montreal, media reports said.
Nepal cracks down on protesters denouncing dissolution of Lower House
Jan 15, 2021, at 02:41 am
Kathmandu: Nepal Police recently arrested dozens of people, who were demonstrating against the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR), in Nepal capital Kathmandu, media reports said.
Pakistan's power transmission company blames human error for recent power outage
Jan 15, 2021, at 02:38 am
Islamabad: National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has said the massive power outage that was reported in Pakistan on Saturday was caused by poor maintenance of transmission circuitry.
Pakistan is witnessing worsening crackdown on dissent: HRW
Jan 15, 2021, at 02:31 am
New York: Pakistan’s government intensified its crackdown on the media, political opponents, and civil society in 2020, while failing to stem violence against women and minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.
US House impeaches President Donald Trump for the second time
Jan 14, 2021, at 04:29 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached outgoing President Donald Trump for "incitement" of last week's deadly riot at the Capitol.
Candian physician calls for travel ban following surge in Covid-19 cases
Jan 14, 2021, at 05:19 am
British Columbia/IBNS: After seeing a surge in the number of Covid patients from Ontario and Quebec after the holidays, Dr. Annie Gareau, an emergency physician at Whistler Health Care Centre told Radio-Canada about her concern and called on the B.C. government to contain travel from other provinces.