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Italian couple’s footage against backdrop of Myanmar’s ‘holy land’ provokes outrage Outrage is growing in Myanmar after the emergence of a 12-minute pornographic video shot in Bagan, the country’s best-known tourist spot and Unesco heritage site featur…
Thousands of couples – many in face masks – tied the knot in a mass Unification Church wedding on Friday, despite concerns in South Korea over the spread of the coronavirus outbreak Continue reading…
Bibi, freed last year and now in Canada, will release her autobiography on WednesdayAsia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch…
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first ma…
Opposition links violence to Narendra Modi’s BJP party and tensions over citizenship lawStudents have protested in cities across India after a masked mob stormed a high-profile university in Delhi and attacked students and teachers with weapons includi…
Demonstration was organised by umbrella group of Muslim and civil society organisationsMore than 100,000 protesters have taken part in a peaceful march in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, chanting slogans against Narendra Modi’s new citizenship l…
Police in Uttar Pradesh state have embarked on ‘reign of terror’ against Muslims in wake of new citizenship lawIt was midnight at a police barracks in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and in a freezing windowless room about 150 Muslim men and boys sat…
Modi’s Hindu nationalists win 25 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, ending five years of ruleThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state election, a setback for the party as it faces huge anti-government protests again…
The ancient Silk Road city once had a thriving Jewish population, which has shrunk to around 200On the first night of Hanukah, Benyamin Badalov ascends the platformed bimah in Bukhara’s central synagogue to recite the evening prayer.Among the handful o…
The backlash against the Citizenship Amendment Act shows that Indians will not accept the party’s distorted vision for their countryHuge nationwide protests, involving people of various religions, professions, castes and classes, such as haven’t been s…
Police and protesters have clashed across India and six people died during standoffs on Friday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where tensions exploded between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating …
The demonstrations against a citizenship law are the largest of Narendra Modi’s tenureThe government has just passed a long-mooted law to fast-track citizenship applications for refugees from surrounding countries who are Hindu, Christian, Parsi, Jain …
Critics say Narendra Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act ‘has declared war on Muslims’Authorities have imposed an emergency law banning large gatherings in parts of India’s capital, Delhi, as nationwide protests escalated, injuring police and demonstrator…
New Indian legislation purports to help those fleeing persecution abroad – but deepens communal divides at homeThousands nationwide have protested against India’s new citizenship law in recent days, facing a brutal police response. This is arguably the…
Women form human shield around man in New Delhi and shout ‘go back, go back’ as officers attempt to beat him with sticks. Protests have erupted across India against law to fast-track citizenship for everyone except Muslim asylum seekersIndia citizenshi…