Month: May 2019

President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday warned of an "existential risk" to the EU as he waded into the European election campaign ahead of Sunday’s knife-edge vote between his centrist party and the far-Right. French presidents, as guardians of the Republic, are nominally supposed to remain above the fray in national elections but the unwritten…

At least four refugees in Australia’s offshore Pacific camps have attempted suicide since the conservative government’s shock re-election Saturday, according to refugees, advocates and police. Around 800 would-be refugees who tried reach Australia have been sent to live in severe conditions on the remote islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus under a hardline…

President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday warned of an "existential risk" to the EU as he waded into the European election campaign ahead of Sunday’s knife-edge vote between his centrist party and the far-Right. French presidents, as guardians of the Republic, are nominally supposed to remain above the fray in national elections but the unwritten…

Austria’s far-right interior minister, Herbert Kickl, has said his under-fire Freedom Party (FPO) would support a vote of no confidence in the conservative chancellor, Sebastian Kurz. A small opposition party has said it will propose such a vote and Mr Kickl, whom Mr Kurz is seeking to have sacked, told Tuesday’s edition of the mass-circulation…

Hundreds of babies and toddlers have been found infected with HIV in a Pakistani city, in an unprecedented outbreak of the virus where children are the worst affected. Three-quarters of those testing positive for the virus since the outbreak was discovered a month ago in Rotadero in Sindh province are children, with nearly two-thirds aged five…

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz was trying to put together a caretaker cabinet on Tuesday ahead of a confidence vote next week that could bring down his government. Mr Kurz is determined to stay in office until new elections can be held in September following the collapse of his coalition with the far-Right Freedom Party (FPÖ)…

Dutch police have arrested a 47-year-old Syrian suspected of being a commander for the al-Nusra Front, formerly al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man, identified by his nom-de-guerre Abu Khuder, is accused of committing war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria, where he allegedly commanded a battalion known as Ghuraba’a Mohassan, or Strangers of…

Click:block making machine Human rights groups have called for a UN investigation into the more than 400 cases of torture allegedly carried out by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir since 1990. A report published by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) said at…

Bashar al-Assad’s government is routinely arresting people in rebel-held areas of Syria that have surrendered, according to a report by Human Rights Watch which highlights the dangers many still face as the war winds down. Former opposition fighters, media activists and aid workers are being arbitrarily detained despite having agreed to so-called “reconciliation” deals with…

North Korean state media slammed former US vice president Joe Biden for criticising leader Kim Jong-un, calling him "bereft of elementary quality as a human being". The criticism contrasts with North Korea’s repeated references to the good relationship between Kim and US President Donald Trump. Kim said in April his personal relationship with Mr Trump was still good despite the collapse of…