Sensuntepeque, El Salvador A court in El Salvador on Friday acquitted six former guerrillas, including five anti-mining campaigners, whose trial for a civil war era murder was criticized by fellow environmentalists as politicized. Prosecutors had sought up to 36 years in prison for the former rebels of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. But the...
Author Hardeep Singh In the continuation of betraying Sikhs to please their bosses at New Delhi, Badals and company, which is known as “Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)” in masses, has pushed the community into deep crisis once again by undermining and damaging supreme authority of the Akal Takht Sahib, highest Sikh temporal seat. For their...
Detroit, United States Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump’s fitness for office Friday as the oldest major-party White House candidate in history faced speculation that he is “exhausted” after backing out of a spate of interviews. While he has been appearing on friendly TV networks, the 78-year-old Republican has canceled sitdowns with media outlets including NBC, CNBC...
Bengaluru, India India hit back with a batting blitz after New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra struck 134 to guide the visitors to a lead of 356 on day three of the rain-hit opening Test on Friday. The hosts were 231-3 at stumps and still trailed the Black Caps by 125 runs after Glenn Phillips got Virat Kohli...
Geneva, Switzerland The one million children in Gaza are living a “hell on Earth”, the UN said Friday, with around 40 children having been killed there every day over the past year. More than a year into Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory “children continue to suffer unspeakable daily harm”, said James Elder,...
Madrid, Spain Real Madrid have, for the moment at least, given their support to star forward Kylian Mbappe since the Swedish media reported that he is being investigated for an alleged rape during a visit to Stockholm. The reigning European champions, who have not commented publicly on the reports, do not appear to be overly concerned...
Berlin, Germany US President Joe Biden will be in Germany on Friday on a whirlwind trip to the NATO ally, with Western backing for Ukraine set to be high on the agenda at talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Biden was originally due in Germany last week for a multi-day visit that would have included a meeting...
New York, United States Mexico’s former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison on Wednesday for aiding the very drug cartels he was tasked with dismantling. Garcia Luna, 56, was convicted at a high-profile trial in New York last year of taking millions of dollars in...
Passau, Germany Thierry Neuville can finally clinch his first World Rally driver title at 36 on Sunday in the season’s penultimate Central European Rally after a long and bumpy 15-year ride that has repeatedly highlighted the Belgian’s dogged determination. Near misses Neuville made his debut at the Rally of Catalunya at the end of the 2009,...
New Delhi, India India’s Bishnoi crime gang has a grim reputation for assassinations and extortion on its home soil, but now its reach appears to stretch much further after it was accused of involvement in the murder of a Sikh separatist in Canada. Its alleged chief — 31-year-old law graduate Lawrence Bishnoi — has been behind bars...