The Nobel committee spoke for the first time with Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 peace prize winner who is on temporary medical leave from Iranian prison, footage published late Sunday by the organisation showed. Mohammadi recalled how the women’s ward at Evin prison “erupted with chants” of the protest slogan “Woman Life Freedom” when they heard […]
A case was lodged on Sunday over a clash between police and followers of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das on the court premises in Chittagong, according to a media report. The Dhaka Tribune newspaper said the case names the Hindu leader, arrested on a charge of sedition, as the prime accused, along with 164 identified […]
US President Joe Biden today said Washington is “clear eyed” that the Islamic State extremist group, often known as ISIS, “will try to take advantage of any vacuum to reestablish” itself in Syria, adding “they will not let that happen”. Speaking from the White House, he said his forces conducted strikes against ISIS inside Syria […]