- Saturday, February 22, 2025
Delhi summoned Facebook’s India chief on Saturday to answer allegations that the social media giant failed to remove dangerous content in its biggest market globally. India is the US-based firm and its messaging service WhatsApp’s biggest market in terms of users, and the company is under pressure worldwide over the…
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on world leaders Saturday to join forces in fighting climate change. “Now we should pay more attention about global warming,” the exiled leader said in a video message to a virtual meeting of Group of Seven parliamentary leaders. The session was hosted by…
SRI LANKA’s cricket board will auction some 150 players next month, including international stars, for the five teams that will make up the virus-delayed premier league, officials said. The 23-match Lanka Premier League (LPL), originally due in August, will now be played from November 14 to December 6, with matches…
FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2019. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman/File Photo EIGHT Security Council members of the UN called for the Muslim Rohingya minority, victims in 2017 of what the UN calls a “genocide,”…
Sunni Muslims march during an anti-Shiite protest in Karachi on September 12, 2020. - Tens of thousands of anti-Shiite protesters including demonstrators linked to Sunni extremists rallied in Pakistan's Karachi on September 12, in the second day of protests that have sparked fears of sectarian violence.(Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via…
An Indian Air Force fighter jet takes off from an airbase in Leh, the joint capital of the union territory of Ladakh bordering China, on September 9, 2020. (Photo by MOHD ARHAAN ARCHER/AFP via Getty Images) CHINA will release five Indian nationals it detained earlier this month in a region…
AL-QAEDA has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday(11). Al-Qaeda in its publication One Ummah had warned that Charlie Hebdo would be mistaken if it believed…
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, earlier said the UAE had "betrayed" the Muslim world and that he hoped they would "soon wake up and compensate for what they have done". (Official Khamenei website/Handout via REUTERS) IRAN has branded Bahrain as a partner to the “crimes” of Israel after the…
The Oman port offers a dry dock facility that can support Britain's two aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth (in pic) and HMS Prince of Wales. (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) BRITAIN on Friday (11) announced a £23.8 million investment to triple the size of its base in an Omani port close to…
Proceedings in the extradition case of arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, who is wanted in India on money laundering charges, will begin on June 7, 2021, a UK court has said. Bhandari, who was arrested on an extradition warrant back in July, was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in…
