UNSC members demand Taliban rescind decrees
AP : More than two-thirds of the UN Security Council’s members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against...
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New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban
AFP : New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners...
US airman dead after self-immolating outside Israeli embassy
AFP: A US airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington at the weekend in protest over the war...
Biden hopes for ceasefire in days as Israelis, Hamas take part in Qatar talks
Reuters: US President Joe Biden said on Monday (26 February) he hopes to have a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza start by next...
Indian protesters determined to secure agrarian reforms
Reuters : Farmers in India’s northern Punjab state demanding higher prices for their crops from the national government are relying on young students to ensure...
‘31,000 Ukrainian troops killed’
BBC Online : Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian president said he would not give the...
Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh resigns
Reuters : Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday he was resigning to allow for the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians about...
Maryam Nawaz becomes first woman to be chief minister of Punjab
Reuters: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of Pakistan’s three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was elected on Monday as the head of the country’s most populous...
Palestinian government submits resignation to Abbas: PM
AFP: Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday announced the resignation of his government which rules parts of the occupied West Bank. “I submit the...
Somalia will defend itself if Ethiopia seals
Reuters : Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said his country would “defend itself” if Ethiopia goes ahead with a deal to set up a naval...
Gaza desperately needs more aid but agencies can’t cope
BBC : The images have been searing. Children scrabbling in the dirt, gathering handfuls of spilled flour which they stuff into their pockets. Aid trucks...