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New Delhi/Christchurch: Nine people from India or of Indian origin have been missing after Friday’s shooting at two mosques in Christchurch in which 49 people have died, the Indian envoy in New…

Washington: The US State Department slammed human rights violations in China, saying the sort of abuses it had inflicted on its Muslim minorities had not been seen “since the 1930s.” US Secretary…

GENEVA: A leading researcher on China`s ethnic policies said that an estimated 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims could be held in so-called re-education centres in Xinjiang region, up from his earlier…

MAPUTO: At least 115 people were killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843,000 people across southeast Africa, officials and the UN said, prompting calls for emergency aid.…

WASHINGTON: US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he has completed a marathon round of talks with the Taliban in Doha and is now heading to Washington for consultations. Apparently, disagreements on…

JERUSALEM: Unrest at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site led Israeli police to shut off access to it after several weeks of tension at the location. Police said they evacuated the Al…

Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assured her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi that her government would never allow the country’s soil to be used by any militant organisation under its “zero tolerance…

GENEVA: A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar voiced deep concern over Bangladesh’s plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees in April to a remote island, saying it may not be habitable…

Washington: The Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar more commonly referred to as Mullah Omar lived in a ‘secret room’ near the bases of the US Army but the American troops failed to…

New Delhi: Four Indians, including a UN consultant attached with the Environment Ministry, were among those killed when a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed after taking-off from Addis Ababa, Foreign Minister Sushma…