Montreal, Canada – Sikh leaders in North America have welcomed recent arrests in the killing of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but allegations that the Indian government was involved continue to fuel questions and unease. Canadian police announced late last week that three Indian nationals were arrested in Canada for their involvement in the […]
Rescuers are rushing to evacuate people stranded by floodwaters across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where at least 90 people have been killed and more than 130 others are missing. The state capital of Porto Alegre has been virtually cut off by the flooding, with the airport and bus station closed […]
Washington, DC – The United States has played down the deadly Israeli assault on Rafah, saying the offensive appears to be “limited” despite concerns over the fate of the more than 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in the southern Gaza city. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday that the US still opposes a major […]
Israel appears to have been blindsided by Hamas’s announcement on Monday that it had agreed to an Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal. But the Israeli government quickly made its position clear – the proposal wasn’t something it would agree to, and, to make matters more explicit, its military forces took control of the Palestinian side of Egypt’s […]
Swinney replaces Humza Yousaf, who formally resigned on Tuesday after just over a year in office. Scotland’s Parliament has approved political veteran John Swinney of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to lead the country as first minister. Swinney, 60, succeeds Humza Yousaf, who formally resigned from the role earlier on Tuesday after his announcement last […]
Her story is at the heart of the hush money criminal trial against former United States President Donald Trump. And on Tuesday, Stormy Daniels finally took the witness stand, becoming the highest profile person to date to testify in the historic New York trial. Trump is accused of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records […]
The United Nations and aid agencies have slammed the Israeli army for cutting off an essential aid route by seizing the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza, warning that already scarce supplies will be further depleted in the enclave that is on the brink of famine. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded that Israel […]
Police have broken up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread across Europe. The move on Tuesday came after activists had put up about 20 tents and formed a human […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among millions of voters across 93 constituencies that went to polls in the third phase of India’s mammoth general election. The world’s most populous nation began voting on April 19 in a seven-phase election in which nearly one billion people are eligible to vote, with ballots set to be counted […]
Business alliance seeks to counter far-right populism and persuade 1.7 million staff to vote in upcoming election. A roster of German blue chip companies has banded together to counter anti-immigration political parties in advance of the upcoming EU elections. Thirty companies, including BMW, BASF, and Siemens, announced on Tuesday that they have formed a “business […]
State security service says two colonels arrested after it thwarted alleged plan to kill Zelenskyy, other top officials. Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators claim to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said. On Tuesday, the SBU said in a statement it had exposed a network of agents […]
EXPLAINER Many campus protesters have taken down Gaza solidarity encampments after colleges agreed to consider divestment from Israel. College campuses around the world have exploded in recent weeks in protests by pro-Palestinian students and faculty members against Israel’s war on Gaza, in which more than 34,000 people have been killed. In university after university, protesters […]
