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UK's richest family gets jail terms for exploiting staff at Swiss villa

23 Jun 2024

A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain's richest family, the Hindujas, branding them "selfish" for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion. Lawyers for the members...

Portugal church sex abuse study finds 512 alleged victims

13 Feb 2023

A committee that has been examining historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Monday that 512 alleged victims have come forward. Senior Portuguese church officials had...

Pakistan must act to end forced child marriage: UN experts

16 Jan 2023

UN rights experts on Monday deplored a reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan's religious minorities, urging the government to swiftly halt such practices. ...

Powell powers Dubai Capitals to win over Abu Dhabi Knight Riders

13 Jan 2023

Rovman Powell’s all-round performance helped Dubai Capitals defeated Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by 73 runs in the opening match of the DP World ILT20 at the Dubai...

US monitoring rise in rights abuses in India, Blinken says

12 Apr 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare...

Twitter admits policy ‘errors’ after far-right abuse

04 Dec 2021

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and...

After the loss of Prince Philip, the Queen will come to rely increasingly on Prince Charles for advice

10 Apr 2021

The future of the monarchy always comes into focus at moments such as this. Britain, a nation greatly troubled by all sorts of divisions; disfigured by what are often branded,...

Second wave

27 Dec 2020

The world should get ready to defeat the second wave of the novel coronavirus, as now it has much experience in dealing with the pandemic. The world will surely get...

Oil discovery bolsters UAE’s energy cachet

24 Nov 2020

At a time when the coronavirus has been battering not just the economic lives of people but also nations, this is surely heartening news. The new oil discovery in the...

Myanmar army probes ‘wider patterns’ of abuse against Rohingya

16 Sep 2020

The Myanmar military has said it is investigating “possible wider patterns of violations” before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed...

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