AFP, GENEVA: The UN human rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the spiralling violence in Burundi, decrying allegations of security forces gang raping women, ethnic killings and mass graves filled with more than 100 bodies. “All the alarm signals, including the increasing ethnic dimension of the…

AFP, ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed Pakistan would eradicate “evil” honour killings as he congratulated director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on her Oscar nomination for a harrowing documentary on the practice. “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, which follows…

AFP, PARIS: A “serious accident” during a drugs trial in France has left one person brain-dead and five hospitalised, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said Friday. She said the six had been taking part in a “trial of an oral medication being developed by a European laboratory”…

AFP, NORTH CHARLESTON, United States: With the first vote of America’s 2016 election two weeks away, Republican presidential frontrunners Donald…

AFP, RAIPUR, India: Four Maoist rebels have been killed in a gun battle with police in a forest in central India’s Chhattisgarh state, security forces said Friday. Police said the shoot-out happened early Friday morning in Bijapur, around 470 kilometres (290 miles) from state capital Raipur. “After…

AFP, MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants stormed an African Union base Friday in the country’s southwest, the Somali army said, with witnesses reporting several dead. “They launched an offensive on a military base at El-Adde and there was heavy fighting which caused…