Indian Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjeev Arora Saturday called for adherence to the Charter of Patients’ Rights as deceased patients’ bodies continue to be “held hostage” by hospitals. In a statement to the Indian Express, the MP and a member of the parliamentary ad hoc committee on health and family welfare said that deceased persons [...]

Thousands of Czech citizens on Saturday took part in anti-government protests in the capital city of Prague. A new political party, PRO, organised the rallies, leading protesters to challenge high inflation rates and the government’s assistance to Ukraine. Protestors gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square during an anti-poverty event and demanded that the current coalition government [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian Sunday announced that Iran and the US had reached a prisoner exchange agreement. However, the US National Security Council denied that an agreement had been reached. According to Amirabdollahian, the countries agreed to the deal “in recent days,” and “if everything goes well from the American side, it will be [...]

Australia-based Hillsong Church Sunday announced that it will conduct an independent investigation into its financial structure following allegations of fraud and financial misappropriation. Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley said that the church is making “significant operational changes” following criticism from Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie. Dooley confirmed that the church will conduct, “a complete reevaluation, via [...]

The Indian government Sunday asserted in a filing to the Indian Supreme Court that it opposes recognising same-sex marriages and pushed the court to disregard pushback from LGBTQ couples on the current legislation. Parts of the filing were leaked but the full filing was not made available to the public. However, in the filing, the government [...]

The Iranian judiciary Sunday confirmed that the Supreme Court served the death sentence for Habib Farajollah Chaab, an Iranian-Swedish dissident on charges of conspiracy and terrorism. According to the Iranian authorities, Chaab had participated in and encouraged terrorist activity in Iran. The court specified the 2017 attack on a military parade where 25 people died and [...]

The French Senate Saturday voted in favour of President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. The reform bill, which will raise the legal age of retirement to 64, was passed by the French Parliament’s upper house with 195 votes for the reform and 112 against. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced, “After a hundred hours of debate, the [...]

A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Matthew Saltmarsh, Friday expressed concern about the growing number of people fleeing their homes as a result of fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Saltmarsh emphasized that the DRC has 5.8 million internally displaced people in Africa, making it the continent’s [...]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was cleared of wrongdoing in a preliminary corruption investigation, according to a Saturday statement from his spokesperson Vincent Magwenya. Magwenya confirmed that Ramaphosa’s office received a preliminary report from South African Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka on Friday which clears Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing in relation to the theft of large [...]

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group announced Saturday that Russia has again used its “proxy ‘Donbas republics'” to violate international law by staging the trials and sentences of three Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Investigative Committee of Russia has accused human rights defender and journalist Maksym Butkeyych of attempted murder and has claimed that Butkeyych shelled [...]