Beyond Today, Into Tomorrow
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday its goal was “to help all malnourished children and mothers”, after the United Nations warned that millions would experience acute malnutrition this year. The World Food Programme’s Afghanistan director John Aylieff said this week that five million women and children would experience life-threatening malnutrition in a worsening crisis…
• Duties start at 10pc on eight nations from Feb 1 and could rise to 25pc in June; penalties to remain until deal is complete • Denmark, UK, France and Germany among nations targeted; thousands rally in Nuuk as PM joins chants of ‘Make America Go Away’ • US lawmakers call govt push ‘misguided’ WASHINGTON:…
• Decree declares Kurdish a ‘national language’ of Syria • US envoy meets head of Syrian Kurdish forces in Iraq DEIR HAFER/ERBIL: Syria’s army said on Saturday that its forces had taken control of swathes of the region east of Aleppo city after Kurdish forces agreed to withdraw following recent clashes. The advance comes a…
LONDON: UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday deplored a host of “powerful forces lining up to undermine global cooperation” in a London speech marking the 80th anniversary of the first UN General Assembly. Guterres, whose term as secretary general ends on Dec 31 this year, delivered the warning at the Methodist Central Hall in London,…
New Delhi: The Congress has denounced the Modi government for “communalisation of education” in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir following the withdrawal of permission for MBBS course at Vaishno Devi Medical College in Reasi district of the territory. According to Beyond the Time News, Congress general secretary in-charge of occupied Jammu and Kashmir…
Washington: An American journal has strongly supported Pakistan’s position regarding India’s actions against the Indus Waters Treaty, warning that these steps could pose a serious humanitarian threat in South Asia. According to Betond the Time News, the US publication, The National Interest, in its report said India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has introduced…
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday it considered calls by some European states to resume dialogue with Russia as “positive”, after French and Italian leaders called for re-engagement with Moscow on Ukraine. Dialogue between the EU and Russia has been virtually frozen since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive on Ukraine in 2022. The bloc has imposed huge…
Hate speech against minorities, including Muslims and Christians, in India rose by 13 per cent in 2025, with most incidents occurring in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Washington-based research group said on Tuesday. India Hate Lab documented 1,318 instances of what it called hate speech in…
GENEVA: Sri Lankan forces used sexual violence against minority Tamils during the island’s decades-long separatist war, and victims still await justice 17 years after the fighting ended, a UN report said on Tuesday. Troops crushed the separatists following a no-holds-barred offensive and declared an end to the war by May 2009. The spectacular military success…
SEOUL: A South Korean judge sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration and in its chaotic aftermath. It is the first in a series of verdicts for the disgraced ex-leader, whose brief suspension of civilian rule in South…
