Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to try to ensure the Egyptian government is tried in international courts for the death of former president Mohamed Morsi, who suffered a fatal heart attack in a Cairo court earlier this week. “Mohamed Morsi flailed on the courtroom floor for 20 minutes and the authorities did not […]
More than 400,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, said an official from Turkey’s Interior Ministry. “The population of Syrians in Turkey is a young one, as [only] around 100,000 among 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey are older than 60,” Abdullah Ayaz, who heads […]
Tehran: Iran’s defence minister “categorically rejected” Wednesday accusations that Tehran was behind two tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman, describing evidence presented by Washington as “unsubstantiated”, official news agency IRNA reported. Washington has blamed Iran for last week’s attacks, releasing images and a grainy video it alleges shows Iranians on a patrol boat removing […]
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia should be investigated over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi because there is “credible evidence” that he and other senior officials are liable for the killing, according to a damning and forensic UN report. In an excoriating 100-page analysis published on Wednesday of what happened to Khashoggi […]
United Nations: With digital technology providing new channels for hate speech to grow and reach to wider audiences at lightning speed, UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to step up its response to combat acts of hatred and xenophobia. The UN secretary-general was speaking on Tuesday during the launch of the United […]
United Nations: Unabating violence, destruction and a downward sprial in overall conditions for the desperate people trapped in north-western Syria’s Idlib were in the spotlight as the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday that “we are faced with a humanitarian disaster unfolding before our eyes”. Mark Lowcock, also the UN Humanitarian […]
Cairo: The UN human rights office has called for a prompt and thorough probe into the death of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, a day after he collapsed and died inside a Cairo courtroom on Tuesday. “Any sudden death in custody must be followed by a prompt, impartial, thorough and transparent investigation carried out by […]
Srinagar: The students of Kashmir University on Tuesday offered funeral prayers in absentia for the deposed Egyptian president Dr Mohamed Morsi. The former President was buried on Tuesday in eastern Cairo, his son said, a day after he collapsed in court and died shortly after. Witnesses said that scores of faculty members, scholars, and students assembled […]
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday blamed Egypt’s “tyrants” for the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi who died in a Cairo hospital after fainting during a court session. “History will never forget those tyrants who led to his death by putting him in jail and threatening him with execution,” Erdogan, a […]
Beijing: Eleven people were killed and 122 injured after China’s Sichuan province was hit by two strong earthquakes since Monday night, according to the state media. The first 6.0 magnitude quake shook Changning County of Yibin City at 10:55 pm on Monday (local time) and according to the China Earthquake Centre (CENC), the second tremor of […]
