South Sudan families displaced by fighting forced out again by floods
Reuters, Lanyaris :By the time the waters started rising, ethnic violence had already forced South Sudanese mother Vorgol Poulo, her husband, and their seven children...
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‘Assam govt to shut down state-run madrasas, Sanskrit schools’
Scroll.in :Assam Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said the government will shut down all state-run madrasas and Sanskrit schools as it...
Jordan enters 48-hour nationwide coronavirus lockdown
Al Jazeera News :Jordan entered a nationwide 48-hour lockdown starting on Friday for the first time in months as health officials worry a spike in...
Venezuela pro-government assembly approves law expanding Maduro’s powers
Reuters :Venezuela’s pro-government National Constituent Assembly on Thursday approved a law allowing President Nicolas Maduro to confidentially sign new oil deals with private firms and...
Greece, Cyprus threaten EU sanctions against Turkey over Varosha
Al Jazeera News :Greece has said that unless Turkey reverses the reopening of parts of Varosha on Cyprus’s east coast, it may seek to trigger...
Kyrgyz president orders state of emergency in capital amid unrest
Al Jazeera News :Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov declared a state of emergency in the capital, Bishkek, on Friday as unrest gripped the Central Asian country.A...
India’s food minister Ram Vilas Paswan dies
Al Jazeera News :Veteran Indian politician Ram Vilas Paswan, a federal minister and an ally of Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s ruling coalition, died on Thursday...
In war-torn Yemen, a bombed school brings back hope to children
Al Jazeera News :With its walls pounded by artillery, roofs torn open and concrete beams in shreds, Al-Wehdah school lies in ruins as students return...
Brazil hits 5 million Covid-19 cases, as experts fear 2nd wave
Al Jazeera News :Brazil, in the grip of the world’s second-most deadly outbreak of the coronavirus, has recorded more than five million cases of the...
Iran rights activist Narges Mohammadi freed from jail
Al Jazeera News :Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison after her sentence was reduced, her husband and the...
Mexican Nobel laureate Mario Molina dies
Reuters, Mexico City :Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat...