Tens of thousands of Pakistanis attended a recent rally in support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore. A former jet-setting cricket star who allied with religious conservatives, Khan told his supporters that he was the victim of a US-led conspiracy that was in...
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A court in Myanmar found Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption Wednesday, the latest verdict against the former civilian leader, who was detained under a series of charges following last year’s military coup, BBC reported. The court sentenced the Nobel Peace Prize laureate to five...
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Israel is planning to implement a policy addressing the entry and the residence of foreigners in the West Bank, a move that has raised concerns that the new rules will add further restrictions on movement in the occupied territory, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday. The “Procedure for...
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Singapore executed a Malaysian man convicted of smuggling drugs, despite a series of appeals by human rights advocates and global leaders to spare him because he suffered from a mental disability, the New York Times reported. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was hung early Wednesday, a day after...
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Russia released former US Marine Trevor Reed on Wednesday following a prisoner swap with the United States, despite ongoing tensions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Radio Free Europe noted. Reed was jailed in 2020 for allegedly assaulting Russian police officers a year before. His...
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Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote about a financial crisis that was afflicting Rome during the 1st century BCE. In his essay, he described the crisis as one where “the coinage was being tossed around so that no one was able to know what he had.” Historians...
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