Aarna Saini 
U.S. report criticises India and Pakistan for human rights abuses, with India taking minimal steps and Pakistan rarely acting. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. government noted abuses in India and Pakistan in a shortened human rights report released on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) that said India “took minimal credible steps” to combat the … Read more
People watch as a wildfire burns in Achaia, Greece, on August 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday (August 13, 2025) after a nightlong battle to protect the perimeter of Greece’s third-largest city, with at least three more deaths reported in Spain, Turkiye and Albania. Outside the Greek port … Read more
Tulip Siddiq with Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladeshi anti-corruption officials testified in court on Wednesday (August 13, 2025) against former British Minister Tulip Siddiq, accused of using her familial connection to deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to obtain state-owned land plots in the South Asian country. Mr. Siddiq, who is Ms. Hasina’s … Read more
A visit to the turbulent coastline of County Donegal reveals a place where the Welsh poet found creative enrichment in the summer of 1935. Source link
File picture of Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, left, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Berlin on Wednesday (August 13, 2025) to join German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks with European and U.S. leaders ahead of the Trump-Putin summit later this week, the German government said. Mr. … Read more
File picture of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. | Photo Credit: Reuters India has been a “bit recalcitrant” on trade negotiations with the US, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said. “That’s aspirational,” Mr. Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday (August 12, 2025), responding to a question on wrapping up all the tariffs and trade … Read more
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that if India attempted such an act, “you will be again taught such a lesson that you will be left holding your ears.” File | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) said India would not be allowed to snatch “even one drop” of … Read more
Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60. Ms. Spencer, who became a veterinarian later in life, died Monday (August 11, 2025) at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, after a yearslong battle with cancer, family spokesperson Sandra Jones said. As Dee, … Read more
Two men died and thousands were forced from their homes on Tuesday as wildfires fuelled by a heatwave scorched southern Europe. Heat alerts were issued in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans, with temperatures expected to soar above 40C. The heatwave is another sign of climate change, which is fuelling longer, more intense and … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday (August 12, 2025) that Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had scored a “personal victory” by getting invited to talks with Donald Trump on U.S. soil, and that the meeting further delayed sanctions on Moscow. Mr. Zelensky also ruled out withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region as part of a … Read more
