Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in miserable conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack of food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Friday. although this news has been still going around and relevant for weeks, the conditions have been getting worse.Up to 12,000 more children join them every week, fleeing violence or… Read more »
Suggestion that those on official register would be required to undergo testing to avoid ‘spread of sexually-transmitted diseases’ Move reported amid growing concerns over safety of LGBT communities across Muslim-majority regions of former Soviet Union. Photograph: Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images View more sharing options Shares 3059 AFP in Dushanbe Tuesday 17 October 201715.22 EDTLast modified on Tuesday 17 October 201718.04 EDT Authorities in… Read more »
Air pollution in Indian capital hits 18 times the healthy limit despite supreme court ban on sale of firecrackers Indian commuters drive and cycle through air pollution in Delhi the day after Diwali. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images View more sharing options Shares 228 Reuters Friday 20 October 201703.21 EDTLast modified on Friday 20 October 201706.32 EDT Air pollution in Delhi has hit… Read more »
Suicide bombings in capital Kabul and Ghor province leave at least 70 dead, the latest in a series of attacks across the country Security personnel are on edge in Kabul after a series of attacks targeting Shia places of worship in recent months. Photograph: Hedayatullah Amid/EPA View more sharing options Shares 66 Sune Engel Rasmussen in Islamabad Friday 20 October… Read more »
CNN)Nearly 1,000 suspected ISIS militants have surrendered to Kurdish forces near Kirkuk in the last few weeks, Kurdish Gen. Shawrash Hakim said Tuesday. Most of the suspects fled among civilians who left Hawija, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Kirkuk, after Iraqi troops launched a military operation to retake the town of about 100,000 people from ISIS’ grasp last… Read more »
Prime minister Narendra Modi pressured to condemn Australian report on modern slavery over fears it could tarnish India’s image Modern slavery refers to child labour and a range of other exploitative practices. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images View more sharing options Shares 489 Michael Safi in Delhi @safimichael Wednesday 4 October 2017 22.01 EDTLast modified on Wednesday 4 October 201722.02 EDT The… Read more »
Media captionIn August President Trump said: “We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists” US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says the US will send 3,000 extra troops to Afghanistan as the Taliban gain ground and security deteriorates. American combat operations against the Taliban officially ended in 2014, but over 8,000 US special forces remain in the country backing… Read more »
A female chess champion from Iran has joined the United States Chess Federation, after learning that she was officially barred from playing for her homeland because she refused to wear a head scarf. Dorsa Derakhshani is a 19 year old from Tehran, capital of Iran and has currently moved in the United States to start competing with the St. Louis… Read more »
At least 18 people have been killed and 27 injured in a suicide attack on a Sufi Muslim shrine in Pakistan’s south-western province of Baluchistan. Crowds of devotees had gathered for a religious ceremony in Jhal Magsi, near the provincial capital Quetta. The bomber reportedly detonated his explosives after being stopped at the gate of the shrine by a policeman…. Read more »
Iran says it has successfully tested a new-medium range missile, in defiance of US President Donald Trump. The launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which has a range of 2,000 km (1,242 miles), was shown on state TV. It is unclear when the test took place. On Friday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would increase its military power “as a… Read more »