COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s plans to tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis have been stalled until the new year with repatriation and relocation programs only likely to be revisited following year-end general elections, a top Bangladeshi official said on Sunday. Abul Kalam, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, told Reuters “a new course of […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is shirking its responsibility for the Holocaust by dragging its heels on returning art confiscated by the Nazis, and failing to crack down on resurgent anti-Semitism, the head of the World Jewish Congress said on Sunday. Ronald Lauder told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that other countries, including Britain, the United […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities released eight people who were detained on Friday under an investigation into jailed rights activist Osman Kavala and accused of following him in a bid to unseat the government through mass protests in 2013, their lawyers said. Police have said the 13 people detained on Friday, including two prominent academics, […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Thousands of French protesters hit out at higher fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies in demonstrations across motorways on Saturday, sparking major logjams and several accidents, including a fatality at one road blockade. Dozens of people were also injured, as drivers tried to get around stoppages, after protesters in a […]

Thousands of people blocked roads across France in a ‘yellow vest’ movement against high fuel prices. Tens of thousands of people across France have protested against high fuel prices, in mass rallies that turned violent when clashes erupted in parts of the country and a protester was accidentally run over and killed by a car. More […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A woman blew herself up on Saturday near a police station checkpoint in the Chechen capital Grozny in the south of Russia, RIA news agency said. Nobody else was killed or injured in the blast, RIA said. No other details were immediately available. Source: Read Full Article

San Francisco residents are breathing the world’s worst air into their lungs amid a spate of wildfires around California, according to a ranking of approximately 80 major cities around the globe. The city registered the highest air quality index on Friday in a ranking by AirVisual, a company that has developed a popular app that […]

The criminal justice activist, who was cleared of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2015, posted a video of Christopher Robinson’s elaborate proposal to the delight of her followers. Writing with the clip on Instagram, Ms Knox said: “It was just your average Sunday night, when suddenly…” The video shows the 31-year-old American at home […]

PORT MORESBY (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met with Taiwan’s envoy to the APEC summit, Morris Chang, on the sidelines of a business forum on Saturday in Port Moresby, according to a media report. The report, from a journalist attending the summit with Pence, did not provide any details. Despite Taiwan’s lack of […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Trump’s efforts to preserve ties with a key U.S. ally. The sources said the CIA had briefed other parts of the U.S. government, […]