Pakistan’s senate proposed another resolution on Sunday seeking the postponement of February’s general elections. This is the fourth resolution filed in recent weeks advocating for a delay of the upcoming elections. The latest resolution was proposed by another independent senator, Hilalur Rehman, belonging to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). According to Dawn, Rehman reasoned [...]

On a writ of certiorari to the Colorado Supreme Court, the U. S. Supreme Court will likely decide whether former President Donald Trump (Trump) is disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 (Section Three) from running in the 2024 general election for engaging in insurrection on January 6, 2021. A key argument against disqualification attacks [...]

The Maldives informed Sunday that it has officially communicated its request to the Indian government, urging the withdrawal of Indian military forces from the Maldives by March 15. President Mohamed Muizzu, who has been in office since November 2023, prominently featured the ‘“IndiaOut” slogan during his 2023 presidential election campaign, underscoring the call for the removal [...]

Thousands of people, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, protested against far-right extremism in Berlin and near Potsdam against the alleged deportation plan formulated by extremists in a “secret meeting.” The demonstrations were staged under the motto “defend democracy” following the report from CORRECTIV. This investigating new agency reported a clandestine [...]

The district magistrate of Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh, India, imposed prohibitory orders on Sunday restricting public gatherings in response to a violent clash between All Tai Khamti Singpho youth and Adivasi youth, which caused a “serious law and order” issue. The dispute originated as a personal altercation transformed into a communal skirmish at Namsai market [...]

Two migrant children and their mother drowned on Friday while trying to cross from Mexico into the US, after Texas law enforcement authorities prevented officials with the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) from reaching the victims to render life-saving aid, said US Representative Henry Cuellar. Cuellar represents a district on the border. Despite seeing [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Tomoya Obokata warned the UK government that reports of forced labor under the country’s seasonal worker scheme could amount to potential breaches of international law, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) said on Friday. The seasonal worker scheme was introduced in 2019 to remedy labor shortages that [...]

Iranian authorities on Sunday released two journalists who spent over a year in prison for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran by the morality police for opposing mandatory hijab standards and subsequent death in police custody sparked nationwide and global protests, local media outlets reported. Footage on social [...]

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday set aside a Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision suspending the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) earlier order against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) that revoked the party’s bat election symbol. This means that PTI will not be able to use their iconic bat symbol. PTI, which is led by former prime minister [...]

The US and UK defended the legality of their strikes launched in Yemen against Houthi rebels at the UN Security Council’s Friday meeting. The airstrikes, conducted by an international coalition led by the United States and supported by Britain, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, drew international attention and sparked a broader debate on the [...]