International News

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court lifted a ban rooted in a centuries-old tradition that prevented wom­en of menstruating age from entering a prominent Hindu temple in […]

Google is facing legal action from Belgium for not blurring images of military sites. The Belgian defence ministry had requested that the company obscure air bases […]

A court in Egypt has given human rights activist Amal Fathy a two-year-suspended sentence and a fine for “spreading fake news”. She has been in detention […]

President Donald Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his nominee for the US Supreme Court. A Senate committee earlier voted to […]

New York – The World Food Programme (WFP) has said there “very well could be” famine in remote areas of Yemen where the UN’s food agency […]

Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Passing the motion was a response to her failure […]

Pope Francis has removed the priest at the centre of Chile’s clerical sex abuse scandal. In a statement, the Vatican said the pontiff had defrocked Fernando […]

India’s top court has ruled adultery is no longer a crime, striking down a 158-year-old colonial-era law which it said treated women as male property. Previously […]