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Maldives slaps ban on journalists over newspaper ownership row INTERNATIONAL

Maldives slaps ban on journalists over newspaper ownership row

A court has slapped a two-year ban on journalists who triggered the closure of the Maldives' only newspaper when they resigned en masse and set up an independent online publication ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UN rights body voices concern over killings INTERNATIONAL

UN rights body voices concern over killings

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein yesterday expressed concern over the dramatic rise in murder incidents in Bangladesh.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Egyptian police raid press syndicate, arrest two journalists INTERNATIONAL

Egyptian police raid press syndicate, arrest two journalists

Egyptian police raided the press syndicate in Cairo late on Sunday and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the labour union called ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pressure mounts on Bangladesh after gay activists murdered INTERNATIONAL

Pressure mounts on Bangladesh after gay activists murdered

Pressure mounted on Bangladesh Tuesday after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey after criticising Erdogan ASIA

Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey after criticising Erdogan

A Dutch journalist was arrested early Sunday at her home in Turkey for tweets deemed critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to her Twitter account.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistan hangs brothers for murdering six people INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan hangs brothers for murdering six people

Pakistan on Saturday hanged two brothers convicted of murdering six people from the same family, just days after Amnesty International criticised the country ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Millions drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh: HRW INTERNATIONAL

Millions drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh: HRW

Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human Rights Watch ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Greece sends first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal INTERNATIONAL

Greece sends first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal

Greece sent a first wave of migrants back to Turkey on Monday under an EU deal that has faced heavy criticism from rights groups.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Indian villagers block women activists from Hindu temple INTERNATIONAL

Indian villagers block women activists from Hindu temple

Angry villagers blocked a group of women activists from entering the inner sanctum of a temple in western India Saturday, despite a court order mandating Hindu women's right to worship.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Angola court jails 17 activists, including rapper, for 'rebellion' INTERNATIONAL

Angola court jails 17 activists, including rapper, for 'rebellion'

A court in Angola on Monday sentenced 17 youth activists, including a well-known rapper, to between two and eight years in jail for rebellion against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UN expert questions 'witchcraft' as cause of rising albino violence ARABIA

UN expert questions 'witchcraft' as cause of rising albino violence

‘Witchcraft’ and mysterious occult beliefs have been blamed for the surge in attacks targeting albinos in Africa over the last decade, but a UN expert said those theories leave a lot unexplained.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Google tweaks 'right to be forgotten' in EU searches INTERNATIONAL

Google tweaks 'right to be forgotten' in EU searches

Google said Friday it would implement changes in how it applies the so-called right to be forgotten for online searches made in Europe.

4:45 AM November 25 2016