International

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts. “Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining light,” the US-based NGO’s acting executive director, Tirana Hassan, …

LIMA: Seventeen people were killed in Peru on Monday night—the most violent day of protests since last month over the ousting of former president Pedro Castillo. The government clamped an eight-hour night curfew in the country’s battle-scarred south-eastern region of Puno. The clashes came as Prime Minister Alberto Otarola was set to appear in the opposition-dominated Congress, seeking a vote …

WASHINGTON: Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the US president’s personal attorneys at a Washington think tank, a White House lawyer said on Monday. Nearly 10 documents were found at Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Centre for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, CBS News reported earlier, adding that US Attorney General Merrick Garland had asked the …

WASHINGTON: The United States has assured Pakistan that it would continue to support Islamabad’s efforts to strengthen its economy and deal with the consequences of last year’s devastating floods. State Department spokesperson Ned Price at a Monday afternoon news briefing also urged Pakistan to continue with the economic reforms it promised to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while indicating that …

ISLAMABAD: South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa remained the two worst regions in terms of child mortality in 2021, a new UN report has said. The report released on Tuesday estimated that around five million children died before the age of five while another 2.1 million children and youth between five and 24 years lost their lives in 2021. Children continue to face …

KYIV: Russian troops have stepped up an assault on the small salt mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, forcing Ukrainian troops to repel waves of attacks led by mercenary forces, officials in Kyiv said. Britain’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Russian and forces of the Wagner contract group were probably now in control of most of the town, …

GENEVA: As global condemnation of Iran’s execution of protesters intensified, the country on Tuesday decided to “firmly punish” people who violate the hijab law. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva condemned the executions in Iran and said they amounted to state-sanctioned killing. Tehran has executed four people in connection with nearly four months of demonstrations in the country, …

Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday a series of incidents amounting to “gross human rights violations” had taken place in his country’s past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966. In one of the darkest periods of Indonesia’s history, some historians and activists have estimated at least 500,000 people were killed in violence that …

A 19-year-old man accused of attacking three New York City police officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s eve — crime investigators have linked to Islamist extremism — was charged in federal court on Tuesday with attempted murder. The four federal charges — all for attempted murder — against Trevor Bickford, 19, add to a slew of …

Several people were lightly wounded on Wednesday by a man wielding a knife at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris, French authorities said. The man was arrested by police at the station — serving as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe — after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source who asked …