United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
A court in Hong Kong has convicted two organisers of annual vigils commemorating the bloody suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing, further narrowing the space for public remembrance of an
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There is a certain comfort in the stories that empires tell about themselves. In these stories, capitalism appears as the natural flowering of European ingenuity – the product of reason, scientific discovery,
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Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional
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A Harvard-led team has developed a method for keeping human brain organoids alive and developing for years, opening new possibilities for studying brain development, neurological disease and potential treatments. A team led
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Pakistan’s textile and garment industry is entering a period in which competitiveness will depend on more than low production costs and manufacturing capacity. As international buyers place greater emphasis on labour rights,
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This week marks five years since the fall of Kabul to Taliban rule, an anniversary that closes one chapter of Afghanistan’s modern history while highlighting the unresolved consequences of the country’s isolation.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be transferred to a hospital amid growing concerns over his health and conditions in detention. The court directed that Khan
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United Nations experts have condemned Singapore’s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related offences, saying at least 16 people have been executed in the country since the beginning of 2026 and
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It is doubtful whether the discerning public expected anything worthwhile to come of Wednesday’s meeting between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and a delegation from the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL). There
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On August 13, 2026, a protest near Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, over an assault on International Anti-Khalistani Terrorist Front (IAKTF) leader Gursimran Singh Mand on August 7, turned violent, leaving nine police personnel,
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Start with what he said, because he said it first, before anyone made him. His counsel stood in the Court of Appeal and told the bench that some people ask why the
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, has called for the killing of “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night and advocated the re-establishment of Jewish settlements across the Palestinian enclave.
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The report states that 573 homicides were recorded in 2023, followed by 555 in 2024 and 536 in 2025. Taken together, the figures show a decline in the annual number of homicides
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Nearly 10 per cent of bus drivers, conductors and assistants tested by Sri Lanka’s National Transport Medical Institute have been identified as using drugs, according to findings from an expanding screening programme
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At least 613 people were killed and another 375 injured in Haiti between March and July as criminal gangs fought for control and security forces carried out operations against them, according to
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