Water is the New Gold: An Emerging Source of Global Conflicts

Depleting potable water resources have sent alarm across the globe pertaining to the emergence of a new spree of future global conflicts in quest...

After annexing Kashmir, India kicks out Kashmiris from State machinery

When India annexed and reduced Jammu and Kashmir to a centrally administered territory exactly a year ago by repealing article 370 of the Indian...

Modern Slavery still prevalent in England’s Textile Industry

Earlier this summer Leicester, in central England, and its thriving textiles industry found itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. https://twitter.com/republic/status/1290201629967491072 As the government...

One year anniversary of Occupied Kashmir annexation: what is the situation on the ground?

The scars of last summer remain in Soura, an enclave that became a symbol of Indian Occupied Kashmir’s resistance to India’s central government a...

Australian academic jailed in Iran pleads for help

Friends of a British-Australian academic taken prisoner by Iran on spying charges launched a public campaign to win her freedom Thursday, saying that Australia's...

Palestinian refugees in Israel cornered by coronavirus

A second wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the Israeli-occupied West Bank is fuelling fears of a surge in overcrowded Palestinian refugee camps where social...

Turkey passes controversial new social media law

Turkey's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill giving the government greater control of social media and criticised by human rights advocates as an...

“Law and Order!”: Trump sending more troops into US cities

US President Donald Trump announced he was deploying more federal agents to Chicago and other major cities Wednesday to help battle a jump in...

India’s claims on Kashmir rest on a dubious legal instrument

Flouting United Nations' resolutions, India under Narendra Modi converted the disputed Jammu and Kashmir State into its Union territory like other states. AG Noorani...

Palestine plays regional power politics with proposed energy deal

When Faed Mustafa, Palestine’s ambassador in Ankara, expressed interest in June in negotiating with Turkey an agreement on the delineation of maritime boundaries in the...

The story of intrigues, deception & the dual accession of Kashmir

Each year, on 19 July the Kashmiris on both sides of Line of Control and across the world observe the Accession to Pakistan Day....

Christchurch shooter sacks lawyers; will represent himself at hearing

The gunman behind New Zealand's Christchurch mosque shootings sacked his lawyers Monday and opted to represent himself, raising fears he would use a sentencing...