WHO, UNICEF launch Afghan polio vaccine campaign
Reuters :The World Health Organization, or WHO, and the United Nations children’s agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, the first...
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Global Covid-19 cases hit 250 million
Reuters :Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 250 million on Monday as some countries in eastern Europe experience record outbreaks, even as the Delta variant surge eases...
Iran urges ‘vigilance’ after drone attack on Iraqi PM
BSS :Iran on Sunday said it condemned a drone attack targeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi and urged “vigilance to foil plots aimed at the...
Protesters demand climate action in global rally
BSS :Tens of thousands of protesters braved rain and wind in Glasgow Saturday as part of worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure...
Libya FM suspended
BSS :Libya’s presidential council suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush from her duties Saturday days before an international conference is to make a new push to...
Palestinian Bedouins face demolitions, settler attacks in Hebron
Al Jazeera :The Israeli High Court of Justice is expected to decide over the next month whether an area in the occupied West Bank –...
8 killed after US music festival crush
AP :At least eight people died and several were injured in a crush at the Astroworld music festival in the southern US state of Texas...
Glasgow braces for climate protests on global day of action
AFP :Glasgow was on Saturday bracing for a second day of protests against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming...
India adds 10,929 Covid-19 cases, 392 deaths
AFP :India on Saturday recorded 10,929 fresh corona virus cases that took its infection tally to 3,43,44,683, while 392 more fatalities pushed the death toll...
All the trees have died’: Iraqis face intensifying water crisis
Al Jazeera :Four years ago, the stream running through Iraq’s al-Hamra village dried up. Now, “all the trees have died”, said Abdullah Kamel who used...
Indonesia floods kill at least eight
BSS :Indonesian rescuers scrambled on Friday to find survivors under mud-swamped hillsides after flash floods on Java island killed at least eight people, the disaster...
Nigeria state votes in key test for presidential race
BSS :Voters in the volatile southeastern Nigerian state of Anambra go to the polls on Saturday amid a massive police deployment, in a key test...