Hurricane Henri closes to New York City
AP :Hurricane Henri kept on course early Sunday to crash into a long stretch of northeastern coastline, as millions on New York’s Long Island and...
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Australian police clash with anti-lockdown protesters
BBC :Police in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney have clashed with thousands of people protesting against Covid lockdowns.In Melbourne, mounted officers used pepper...
Desperation as Afghans seek to flee a country retaken by the Taliban
The New York Times :On Saturday morning, a former interpreter for a US company in Kabul, Afghanistan, plunged into a mass of humanity outside a...
Kamala Harris begins Asia trip amid Afghan debacle
AFP :Vice President Kamala Harris began a trip to Asia Sunday where she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region after the chaotic...
102 migrants rescued in English Channel
AFP :Over 100 migrants were rescued in the Channel on Saturday as they tried to reach Britain on makeshift boats, the French maritime prefecture said....
Targeted Taliban killings fuel Afghans’ fears
AP :Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fueling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they...
Taliban turns social media into a tool for control
The New York Times :In one video, a Taliban official reassured female health workers that they could keep their jobs. In another, militants told Sikhs,...
China allows families to have 3 children
AlJazeera :China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population was rapidly ageing, state...
Desperate Haitians rush aid convoys to get food, relief items
AFP :Survivors of Haiti’s devastatingearthquake looted an aid convoy Friday as the impoverished Caribbean nation scrambled to roll out a relief effort haunted by the...
Morocco keen to keep Algeria-Spain gas pipeline open
AFP :Morocco wants to keep open a pipeline supplying Algerian gas via the kingdom to consumers in Europe, a senior official has said, despite a...
Inside a doomed migrant boat journey
Reuters :As the 40-foot cabin cruiser lurched for 12 hours on the Pacific on its dead-of-night journey to California from Tijuana, a Mexican migrant named...
Children in S. Asian nations at high risk of climate impacts
PTI :India is among four South Asian countries where children are most at risk of the impacts of climate change threatening their health, education, and...