UK premier Keir Starmer said the “ball was in Russia’s court” and that President Vladimir Putin would “sooner or later” have to “come to the table,” after a virtual summit on Saturday to drum up support for a coalition willing to protect any eventual ceasefire in Ukraine. The British leader told some 26 fellow leaders […]
Syrians gathered on Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their uprising with a public demonstration in Damascus for the first time since president Bashar al-Assad was toppled. The rally in Damascus’s Umayyad Square was the first in the capital after years of repression under Assad, during which the square was the sole preserve of […]
Arrested for sexually harassing a Bangladeshi university student, Asif Sardar Arnab was soon released — greeted by a cheering crowd who presented him with flower garlands. His alleged victim was a student who enthusiastically supported the youth-led uprising that overthrew the Muslim-majority nation’s autocratic government last year. That young woman, after receiving a torrent of violent […]