As Taliban seize licenses, Afghan women fight for right to drive
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan's most progressive city have directed driving instructors to cease awarding licenses to women.While Afghanistan is a profoundly traditional and patriarchal...
Food aid for families marks end of Ramadan in Africa
On Tuesday, volunteers in Cape Town continued a practice that began nearly 40 years ago in South Africa during the height of apartheid, offering...
Haitian families left homes as violence grows in Port-au-Prince
Haitians in the capital Port-au-Prince left their houses on Monday as gun fighting erupted between rival gangs, after conflicts between armed groups that killed...
23.5 million requests Qatar FIFA World Cup tickets in sale
The current random selection draw ticket sales session for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, which ended yesterday, received a total of 23.5 million...
Twitter’s spam, fake accounts are less than 5% of users: Report
During the first quarter of this year, Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) estimated that bogus or spam accounts accounted for less than 5 percent of the...
Wildfire creates menace in New Mexico city
Hundreds of residents in the ancient New Mexico city of Las Vegas were ordered to evacuate on Monday as the country's largest active wildfire...
Thousands including 1847 children transported from Ukraine to Russia
According to Russia's defense ministry, more than 11,500 individuals, including 1,847 children, were carried from Ukraine into Russia on Monday without the cooperation of...
Putin to handover power temporarily; to undergo cancer treatment
Russian President Vladimir Putin may have cancer surgery while temporarily turning over control to the country's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.According to the New...
India’s Delhi airport was world’s 2nd busiest in March
According to a report by Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data provider, Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport became the world's second...