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Pakistan frets over security ahead of SCO summit

13 Oct 2024

Pakistan authorities were on Sunday preparing to shut down the capital ahead of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, overshadowed by recent militant violence and political unrest. The Indian Foreign Minister...

Jiang Zemin, Communist who made China capitalist

01 Dec 2022

The death of Jiang Zemin, who was China’s top communist as well as president of the country for a decade and more, died at the age of 96 on Wednesday....

Rockets hit central Baghdad for second day in escalating unrest

29 Sep 2022

Four rockets fired from eastern Baghdad on Thursday landed around the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign missions, police said, as political unrest intensified. There...

VIDEO: Fury grows in Iran over woman who died after hijab arrest, at least 8 protesters killed

21 Sep 2022

Iranian authorities said three people including a member of the security forces had been killed on Tuesday during unrest sweeping the country, as anger at the death of a woman...

Unrest erupts at occupied Jerusalem site ahead of nationalist march

29 May 2022

Nearly 2,000 Jewish pilgrims visited occupied Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site early on Sunday ahead of a nationalist parade through the Old City, prompting Palestinians barricaded inside the Al Aqsa...

Tony Blair’s knighthood is an insult to people

04 Jan 2022

Kushie Amin, The Independent In the early hours of 2022, we learned that former prime minister Tony Blair was to be awarded a knighthood on the new year honours list....

Did Biden’s Democracy Summit fail to create magic?

12 Dec 2021

US President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy was a public relations ploy rather than a means to commit participants to improve their democratic credentials. He convened this virtual talk fest...

Joe Biden aims to do what presidents often can’t

24 Nov 2021

Paul Wiseman, Cathy Bussewitz and Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press LBJ tried jawboning. Richard Nixon issued a presidential edict. The Ford administration printed buttons exhorting Americans to “Whip Inflation Now.’’ Over...

Johnson’s way of seeing life is talk of the town

12 Nov 2021

Cathy Newman, The Independent For a man who’s apparently spent a lifetime bending the rules it took some chutzpah to say — as Boris Johnson did last night — that...

'I will shoot whoever I see:’ Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters

04 Mar 2021

Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month's coup, researchers said, leading the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing...

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