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Christchurch shooter sacks lawyers; will represent himself at hearing

The gunman behind New Zealand's Christchurch mosque shootings sacked his lawyers Monday and opted to represent himself, raising fears he would use a sentencing...

Pakistan rebukes Israel over plan to annex West Bank

Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, lawmakers, and politicians have unanimously rejected Israel's plans to annex the Jordan valley, and all settlement blocs in West...

Christchurch shooter sentencing: life sentence must mean life sentence

On the very day New Zealand entered COVID-19 lockdown (March 26), Brenton Tarrant, the man arrested for the Christchurch mosque terror attacks admitted he...

Trump turns his back on Israel annexation plan: reelection bid or EU-US rapprochement?

The former Speaker of Knesset (Israel’s parliament), Abraham Borg, said US President Donald Trump has halted the Israeli annexation plan for parts of the...

India is using its economic clout to buy friends in its fight against China

In his book The Age of the Economist, Daniel R. Fusfeld tells how economics governs our life today. In today’s market or quasi-market economies,...

China packs a punch with new Hong Kong law, say analysts

China's new national security law for Hong Kong is more draconian than initially feared, legal analysts said Wednesday, as they dissected a document granting...

A three-year-old boy sitting on the body of his dead grandfather in Kashmir breaks hearts

A picture of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the corpse of his grandfather in the Sopore area of North Kashmir went viral on social...

Donald Trump: a closeted racist at the helm of a wounded USA

The America of today is a mirror image of the highly unequal America of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. The killing of George Floyd...

UN rights chief puts Israel annexation debate to rest

Israeli annexation is clearly "illegal", the UN's human rights chief said on Monday, warning that the consequences could be "disastrous". This comes in the...

Mississippi nixes state flag symbol in victory for protests

Lawmakers in Mississippi voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle standard from the state flag, after nationwide protests drew renewed attention to symbols of...

‘George Floyds of India’: custodial deaths spark outrage

The deaths of a father and son from alleged torture at the hands of police have sparked outrage across India, with many drawing parallels...

Princeton decides Woodrow Wilson was a racist, drops his name

Princeton University has decided to remove the name of former US President Woodrow Wilson from a building on its campus because of his racist...