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Don't tell women what to wear, UN says after France bans hijab at Olympics
The UN stressed today it was opposed to most dress codes for women, after France barred its Olympic athletes from wearing the Muslim hijab during the 2024 Paris Games
26 September 2023, 12:50 PM
India-Canada diplomatic row won't impact military engagement: Canada's deputy army chief
The diplomatic row between India and Canada is not going to impact their ongoing bilateral military engagement and the matter has to be resolved at political level, Canada's visiting Deputy Army Chief Major General Peter Scott said today
26 September 2023, 10:15 AM
Armenia says 13,350 refugees arrived from Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia on Tuesday said a total of 13,350 refugees have arrived from Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave that was defeated in a lightning offensive by Azerbaijan last week.
26 September 2023, 09:32 AM
Hundreds of Sikh Canadians protest against India
Hundreds of Sikh protesters rallied outside Indian diplomatic missions in Canada on Monday, trampling pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and burning flags a week after Ottawa said New Delhi had played a role in the killing of a prominent Sikh activist
26 September 2023, 03:34 AM
Azerbaijan’s Victory Over Karabakh: Thousands of ethnic Armenians flee enclave
Thousands of ethnic Armenians fled the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, queuing up for fuel and jamming the road to Armenia after their decades-old separatist state was defeated by Azerbaijan in a lightning military operation.
25 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Punjab’s Sikhs fear backlash from diplomatic spat
A bitter row between India and Canada over the murder of a Sikh separatist is being felt in Punjab, where some Sikhs fear both a backlash from India’s Hindu-nationalist government and a threat to their prospects for a better life in North America.
25 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Pak ex-PM Imran moved to a prison with better facilities
Pakistani authorities were preparing to move former prime minister Imran Khan to a prison with better facilities near the national capital Islamabad after a court order, his party said yesterday.
25 September 2023, 18:00 PM
India’s AIADMK snaps ties with BJP-led alliance
Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK has snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance - just months before the national election - amid a row over comments by the latter party’s state boss, K Annamalai.
25 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Philippines removes Chinese barrier
The Philippines said yesterday it executed a “special operation” to remove a floating barrier installed by China at a prime fishing patch in the South China Sea, a move that could stoke tension after a years-long detente in Asia’s most disputed waters.
25 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Armenia receives first influx of Karabakh refugees
Armenia prepared Monday to welcome a new flood of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees while the leaders of Azerbaijan and ally Turkey were set to hold a celebratory summit marking Baku's victory over the rebel enclave
25 September 2023, 03:02 AM
Nasa’s first asteroid sample parachutes into Utah desert
A Nasa space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere yesterday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
West Bank Raid: Israeli forces kill two Palestinians
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a fighter of the Islamist Hamas group, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank yesterday, emergency workers and Hamas said.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Fire in shop kills 35 people
At least 35 people were killed in southeastern Benin on Saturday after a fire broke out at a shop where witnesses said gasoline was being unloaded, a justice ministry representative said.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Armed men storm Kosovo village
A group of about 30 “heavily armed” men opened fire at Kosovo police in a northern Kosovo village early yesterday, killing a policeman, and the same armed men also stormed a nearby Serbian Orthodox monastery in the first such major regional violence since May, Kosovo officials said.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
120,000 Armenians may flee Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said yesterday the likelihood was rising that ethnic Armenians would flee the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh and blamed Russia for failing to ensure Armenian security.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Philippines condemns Chinese ‘floating barrier’
The Philippines yesterday accused China’s coast guard of installing a “floating barrier” in a disputed area of the South China Sea, saying it prevented Filipinos from entering and fishing in the area.
24 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in West Bank raid
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in a pre-dawn raid today in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said
24 September 2023, 13:08 PM
Restaurants, pool, even a zoo: Venezuela offers a peek at prison run by gang
Venezuela's Tocoron prison was like a town all unto itself, boasting restaurants, a pool, a zoo, a playground for inmates' kids and so much more as a powerful gang ruled the roost, using the facility as a criminal operations center
24 September 2023, 05:46 AM
Nearly two weeks on, official Libya flood toll tops 3,800
Nearly two weeks after a flash flood devastated the Libyan port city of Derna, the official death toll keeps rising, passing 3,800 on Saturday
24 September 2023, 02:42 AM
Nasa readies for dramatic return of asteroid sample to Earth
The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a Nasa capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected
24 September 2023, 02:30 AM