UN highlights huge step backwards for women following Afghanistan trip
AFP :Apparent exemptions granted by the Taliban to harsh restrictions placed on Afghan women are not sufficient to reverse the “huge step backwards” for their...


AFP :Apparent exemptions granted by the Taliban to harsh restrictions placed on Afghan women are not sufficient to reverse the “huge step backwards” for their...
AFP :Air India has been fined $37,000 for its handling of an incident in which a drunk senior US bank executive was accused of urinating...
AFP :Brazil’s Defense Minister Jose Mucio acknowledged on Friday that the armed forces were not directly involved in riots in Brasilia earlier this month when...
AFP :Ukraine should not fixate on defending the city of Bakhmut at all costs and instead use a window of opportunity to prepare a major...
Al Jazeera :Firefighters have been working to put out a raging inferno that broke out in a building near a protest site in Peru’s capital...
BBC Online :Hundreds of people have had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a shanty town in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.Roughly 60...
Reuters :Tens of thousands of nurses across England walked out of hospitals on Wednesday, on strike over low pay that they say leaves them struggling...
AFP :Jacinda Ardern promised “relentless positivity” as New Zealand’s prime minister, but in announcing her shock resignation on Thursday admitted the unrelenting demands of the...
AFP :President Joe Biden offered condolences to the families of the more than a dozen people killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv on Wednesday,...
AFP :A court in the Philippines on Wednesday acquitted Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa of four tax evasion charges, alongside her online government-critical news site Rappler.Ressa...
AFP :The world’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.Randon, known as Sister Andre, was...
AFP :The provincial assembly in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was dissolved on Wednesday, the second regional government to be brought down by former prime minister...