Chief Ministers of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan hit the streets leading a massive protest opposing the amended Citizenship Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India.

A three-day global gathering aimed at transforming the way the world responds to refugee situations starts in Geneva.

The death toll from New Zealand’s White Island volcano eruption rose to 18 yesterday, including two people whose bodies have not

A powerful earthquake hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao yesterday, killing a child and damaging buildings in an area still recovering from a string of deadly quakes in October.

The Trump administration will announce as early as this week plans to withdraw around 4,000 troops from Afghanistan,

Around 54,000 people were evacuated from the southern Italian city of Brindisi yesterday as experts worked to defuse a World War II bomb,

Jamaican psychology student Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss World 2019 Saturday at a ceremony in London, with Miss France and Miss India runners-up in the beauty pageant.

Britain’s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday apologised for waging a disastrous campaign that handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a mandate to take the UK out of the EU next month.

At the epicentre of deadly protests in Assam, a red and white cloth has come to symbolise the struggle of the Indian state’s indigenous “sons of the soil” against a new citizenship law that they see as a dangerous threat to their unique culture.

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, yesterday warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he could not keep Scotland in the United Kingdom against the country’s will.

The central government in India has moved to allay fears over an influx of Bangladeshi Hindu refugees into the northeast with a number of tweets on the official PIB Twitter handle this morning, after violent protests engulfed Assam and parts of the region for a fifth consecutive day yesterday.

Hong Kong police used pepper spray and made multiple arrests yesterday as small groups of black-clad pro-democracy protesters targeted some of the city’s malls, ending a rare lull in violence.

At least 14 people died after a bus carrying pilgrims veered off a highway and rolled down a steep slope in central Nepal yesterday,

The international community must not shirk its responsibility to the education of Rohingya children in Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar camps, Amnesty International says ahead of the first Global Refugee Forum.

After supporting BJP over the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a key party ally in Assam has now decided to oppose it. The AGP announced its decision on Saturday after a meeting of the senior party leaders. The party will approach the Supreme Court against the CAA according to media reports.

Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh is crowned as Miss World 2019 and said says wanted to use her title to work for “sustainable change” for women and their children.

Security forces have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Lebanese protesters in central Beirut in clashes that went on into the night and wounded dozens of people.

Queen Elizabeth will set out on Thursday Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s legislative agenda following his election victory, including a pledge to bring the EU Withdrawal Agreement bill back to parliament before Christmas, his office has said .

The Taliban have killed nine Afghan soldiers in an insider attack in central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, the military said yesterday,

Seventeen 17 people have died in three attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo hit by chronic unrest, the army and local