Thursday, 15 January 2026

Author: AFP

Disgraced Indian guru gets life for killing journalist

NEW DELHI: A disgraced religious sect leader was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for murdering a journalist who exposed rampant sexual abuses by the powerful guru. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who headed the Dera Sacha Sauda sect with millions of followers worldwide, was convicted by the court last week on

Australia police make arrest in Israeli student murder case

SYDNEY: Australia police on Friday arrested a man in relation to the murder of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe, some two days after her body was found in Melbourne. The 21-year-old was killed on the way home from a comedy show in Melbourne just after midnight on Wednesday, with her body

S. Korea court orders Japanese firm to pay for forced labour

SEOUL: A Seoul court yesterday dismissed a Japanese machinery maker’s appeal against an order that it pay 17 South Korean women 100 million won ($89,000) each for forced wartime labour, the latest in a series of rulings raising tensions between the neighbours. South Korea and its former colonial power Japan