Beyond the Headlines
India will reopen visa services for Canadians, its embassy in Ottawa announced Wednesday, a move that could reduce tensions in a bitter dispute over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Relations between India and Canada plunged after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month publicly linked Indian intelligence to the killing of […]
Liberian President George Weah faces a November 14 run-off vote after edging out his main rival by less than half a percent in the first round, the National Electoral Commission said Tuesday announcing final results. Ex-international soccer star Weah garnered 43.83 percent of the votes from the October 10 election while Joseph Boakai won […]
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Iceland’s prime minister, has joined thousands of women in the country who have embarked on a strike to protest unequal pay. The strike taking place on Tuesday will mark the first full-day women’s strike since 1975, when 90% of Icelandic women refused to work. The strike prompted the country’s parliament to pass […]
Canada said Thursday it had withdrawn 41 diplomats from India — fallout from a bitter row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. New Delhi planned to revoke diplomatic immunity for all but 21 of Canada’s diplomats and their families by Friday, forcing Ottawa to pull out the others, Foreign Affairs […]
Car horns in Quito blared in celebration Sunday as banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, became violence-riddled Ecuador’s youngest president-elect ever. With 90 per cent of votes counted, the electoral authority announced Noboa as the victor. Moments earlier, socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez conceded defeat and offered her “profound congratulations” to Noboa, “because this is […]
One of Iran’s most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran. A provincial chief justice said Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, “were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said. According to Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief […]
India’s top court has denied an octogenarian man the right to divorce his wife of six decades, 27 years after he first applied to dissolve their marriage. Divorce remains taboo across much of India with only one in every 100 marriages ending in dissolution, often owing to family and social pressure to sustain unhappy […]
The death toll in the Israel-Palestine war continued to climb on Wednesday, four days after Hamas launched an attack on Israel from the tiny Gaza Strip. The brutal attack has claimed more than 1,200 lives in Israel, including over 250 people who attended a music festival, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. […]
More debris and suspected human remains have been recovered from a privately owned submersible which failed catastrophically in June while on a mission to the Titanic, the US Coast Guard said. All five people on board the recreational sub, named Titan and operated by US-based company OceanGate, were killed when the vessel imploded, which […]
A spokesperson for the United States Department of State, Matthew Miller, has said at least nine Americans have been killed in the attack launched by Hamas terrorists on Israel, according to CNN. Earlier, US Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer in a statement that four American citizens lost their lives in the assault on Sunday. […]
