COVID-19:’India must end abuses, free jailed…
SRINAGAR,India
Amid the growing threat of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s government must end its abuses of power and immediately release all…
Monthly Archives
March 2020
EU grants $263M for Syrian refugees
BRUSSELS
The European Union mobilized €240 million ($263 million) to support Syrian refugees and host communities in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, the…
Myanmar journalist faces life sentence over interview
YANGON, Myanmar
Myanmar's authorities have detained a journalist under a controversial counter-terrorism law over a news report about an ethnic rebel…
No proof drug touted by Trump drug is effective against…
BRUSSELS
The European Commission said on Tuesday there was no evidence that a drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential miracle cure…
G20 coronavirus plan focuses on poorer countries’ debt…
The Group of 20 major economies said on Tuesday that they would present a coronavirus action plan in two weeks to address the debt vulnerabilities of…
Pompeo says Afghan negotiating team looks ‘pretty…
WASHINGTON
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday praised an Afghan government negotiating team identified to hold talks with the Taliban as…
Tunisia releases 1,420 prisoners over coronavirus
TUNIS
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered the release of 1,420 prisoners in an amnesty to combat the spread of the coronavirus in…
Turkey set to release some 45,000 inmates in coronavirus…
ISTANBUL
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party said on Tuesday it proposed a bill that would temporarily release roughly 45,000 prisoners…
Coronavirus death toll in Italy’s Lombardy rises by…
ROME
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in the northern region of Lombardy, the epicenter of Italy’s contagion, has risen by around 381…