A Dutch court sentenced a Pakistani man to 10 years behind bars on Monday for planning to assassinate anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders after the MP announced a cartoon competition that represented Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The man, identified as Junaid I. by local media, was arrested in August 2018 at a train station in The Hague […]
Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee, winners of the main prize, led more than 250 literary luminaries and journalists who asked the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to revoke an order to dispossess the writer Aatish Taseer of his "foreign citizenship." The prominent Indian writer Amitav Ghosh also signed the letter that said
Only six months after the re-election, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has fulfilled two important promises of his first Hindu agenda, electrifying his base but sowing concern among liberals and the Muslim minority of the nation. The last impulse for Modi came on Saturday, when the Supreme Court handed over to the Hindu groups
Indian police arrested dozens of people for comments on social networks that allegedly threatened "community harmony" after the Supreme Court granted a sacred place, where a crowd demolished the 16th-century Babri mosque in 1992, to Hindus, officials said Monday. The site, in the northern city of Ayodhya, has in the past caused religious disturbances that
Hindutva forces have achieved so much in the last 10 months that it is difficult to predict what will come next. When the year began with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing, presenting and approving a constitutional amendment that introduces a 10 percent quota for the poor in the upper caste, we should
A forecast of what will come this week as a political trial investigation, only the fourth time in the history of the United States, is directed to live television. Only for the fourth time in the history of the United States, the House of Representatives initiated an investigation of presidential political trial. House of Representatives
Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned on Sunday, giving in after three weeks of sometimes violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their support. "I resign from my position as president," said leftist Morales in a televised speech, culminating a day of rapid events in which many ministers and senior officials
The United Nations mission for Iraq on Sunday proposed a road map of the country's social turmoil, while Amnesty International said that Iraq's repression against anti-government protests has become a "bloodbath." Iraqi security forces put concrete barriers in central Baghdad in an effort to hinder and block the movement of protesters. The measures take place
A Hong Kong police officer shot at masked protesters on Monday morning, hitting at least one in the torso, while the anger caused by the recent death of a student spilled on the rush hour trip. The shooting, which was broadcast live on Facebook, is the latest escalation in more than five months of protests
Iraqi anti-government protesters clashed with security forces and held their seats on Sunday, when a human rights group warned that a deadly repression could turn into a "bloodbath." Mass demonstrations calling for a reform of the government system have shaken the capital, Baghdad, and the Shiite majority to the south since early October, but political
