Al Jazeera has uncovered allegations and evidence of security forces continuing to use torture against Tamils in Sri Lanka. It’s more than three years since President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka. He took over from a government which was accused of human rights abuses during the war against Tamil separatists. Sirisena had promised a less authoritarian style […]

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia recall ambassadors from Moscow as the EU is expected to expel more Russian diplomats. Moscow, Russia – Fourteen European Union countries have taken a decision to expel Russian diplomats, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council said on Monday. The decision was made last Friday during a meeting of EU leaders.  Earlier on Monday, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania withdrew […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s leaders will pledge in parliament next week to keep the country on safe footing as the economy faces its biggest test in years, amid pressure to roll out more measures to bolster growth and revive weak business and consumer confidence. The government is expected to set a less ambitious target for the economy this year at […]

Ambassador Haley tells UN Security Council US ‘remains prepared to act if we must’ amid ongoing Eastern Ghouta carnage. The UN secretary-general urged Security Council members to “end the suffering” of residents in besieged Eastern Ghouta, as the US threatened to “act if we must” as a ceasefire continues to be ignored by Syrian and Russian forces.  Antonio Guterres’ remarks on Monday came as […]

Four boys – aged 12 to 14 – have died after swallowing poisons they thought were penis enlargement pills, according to reports. The boys all ingested phostoxin pellets – a lethal pesticide – after being told the chemical cocktail would expand their manhoods. The tragic incident happened in Mokoallong, Lesotho, a land-locked kingdom in South Africa. According to local reports, […]

China considers raising tariffs on 128 US products worth $3bn as Asian stock markets take a hit. China has warned the United States they are “not afraid” of a trade war and threatened retaliatory tariffs worth $3bn, after US President Donald Trump signed an order paving the way for imposing as much as $60bn worth of Chinese goods imports.  The […]

Establishment of camps is in case of civilian exodus from Afrin where Turkey is fighting Kurdish fighters, official says Turkey will set up refugee camps with a total capacity of 170,000 at various locations under the control of Turkish army and Turkish-backed rebels, Hami Aksoy, the Turkish foreign ministry spokesman, said. Aksoy told reporters in the capital Ankara on Tuesday that […]

Relatives of a 3-year-old Missouri girl injured at a day care centre say they were initially told she was hurt in a fall, but surveillance video shows a woman throwing the girl against a cabinet. KTVI reports the girl was injured Feb. 1 at the Brighter Day Care and Preschool in St. Louis County. She received seven stitches at a […]

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning for "dangerous" winds, plus snow will settle in parts as a brutal Atlantic storm brings an end to a week of balmy conditions. Forecasters say downpours will drive down on western parts of England tonight and temperatures will fall to 19C LOWER than they were during the hot spell this week. The […]

One of the world’s largest water bodies has been considerably shrinking in the last 100 years, threatening the resources and livelihoods in the Sahel region of Africa. Lake Chad in Central Africa provides water to around 30 million people in four neighbouring countries, but it has lost 90 percent of its surface area in the last 100 years. Environmentalists are […]