Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the “Love Jihad” law, officials said yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairo’s ability to counter terrorism in the region, a comment likely to draw the ire of critics.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies on Monday strongly supported the need to regulate digital currencies, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement after a virtual meeting of the officials.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told party colleagues on Monday that existing lockdown measures in place in Germany would not be sufficient to get the country through the winter, participants at the meeting said.

The European Union said on Monday it did not consider Venezuela’s parliamentary election on Sunday free or fair, rejecting the result and calling on President Nicolas Maduro to chart a path towards national reconciliation.

The brother of a man who detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester more than three years ago has admitted to playing a full part in planning the attack.

The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled smart system”, Tasnim news agency has quoted a senior commander as saying.

A plea from Dr Anthony Fauci for people to “wear a mask” to slow the spread of the coronavirus tops a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2020.

Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday won a majority of seats in parliament after scant participation in an election that the opposition boycotted, saying it was a farce meant to consolidate a dictatorship.

A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.

France, Germany and Britain said on Monday they were alarmed by an Iranian announcement that it intended to install additional, advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and by legislation that could expand its nuclear programme.

Britain’s plan to press ahead today with legislation that would break an earlier Brexit deal is a “negotiating tactic” which should not distract EU negotiators, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said yesterday.

An influential Saudi prince launched a bitter attack on Israel at a regional conference Sunday, drawing retorts from the Jewish state’s foreign minister who addressed the gathering virtually.

“Directed” radio frequency is the most plausible explanation for mysterious symptoms experienced by diplomats stationed in US embassies in Cuba

Nearly 13,000 residents were evacuated in Frankfurt yesterday as experts defused an unexploded World War II bomb, local emergency services

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia’s remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation’s space agency said yesterday.

Indonesia’s social affairs minister was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking $1.2 million in bribes linked to food aid for those hit by the

The Indian Congress Party yesterday expressed its whole-hearted support to the ‘Bharat Bandh’ (nationwide strike) called tomorrow by farmer unions over new agriculture laws after latest round of talks between the government and farmers failed to ease tensions.

President Donald Trump made clear Saturday he had no intention of relinquishing his baseless claims that last month’s election was stolen from him, telling a raucous crowd at his first post-poll rally he would somehow still win.

Thousands of demonstrators have marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, and prompting police to detain more than 300 people.