Barbaric

Azerbaijan said on Saturday it was withdrawing its athletes from an international weightlifting competition hosted in the capital of rival Armenia after a flag-burning incident. The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations are locked in a…

LONDON: Iran has executed a British-Iranian national who once served as its deputy defence minister, its judiciary reported on Saturday (Jan 14), defying calls from London for his release after he was handed the death sentence on charges of…

LONDON: A Hong Kong man on Wednesday (Oct 19) decried his "barbaric" treatment at the hands of Chinese diplomats in Britain who dragged him inside their compound to assault him after an anti-Beijing protest. Bob Chan spoke at a news…

Daniel Craig has called for the end of "barbaric" cluster munitions, describing their use in Ukraine as "unbelievable".Cluster bombs release a series of smaller explosions, posing risks to civilians. They can be costly to…

As international outrage swelled, Ukraine on Saturday called on global organizations including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to quickly investigate an explosion that ripped through a Russian prison camp…

The Russian-born conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has voiced his vehement opposition to his home country's invasion of Ukraine. Daniel Raiskin, who has been the WSO's music director since 2018, condemned the actions of Russia's…

<!-- -->President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down those behind the suicide bombings (File)Paris, France: The Taliban has joined global leaders and NATO in condemning twin suicide bombs that ripped through crowds waiting to be evacuated…