Red Cross official seeks staggered return of Afghans from Pakistan Changes are being urged to plans for returning thousands of Afghan ... humanitarian effort is, he said, " largely concentrated on trying to help people on arrival at transit stations near the border. 04/27/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
Pakistan, Iran vow to turn common frontier into 'border of prosperity' Pakistan and Iran have vowed to turn the common frontier into a “border of prosperity” as ... and unconditional ceasefire, unimpeded humanitarian access to the besieged people of Gaza, return ... 04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Pakistan dispatches 400 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Gaza ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday dispatched 400 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Gaza through sea. In a post on social media platform, X, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar apprised it was eighth tranche ... 04/20/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Uncleared landmines, ordnance threaten lives, limbs along Pakistan-Afghan border Officials from Pakistani tribal districts along the Afghan border say uncleared landmines and ordnance remain a deadly legacy. Decades worth of buried explosives continue to end or ruin lives ... 04/19/2024 - 1:11 am | View Link
7 terrorists killed during infiltration attempt at Afghan-Pakistan border in North Waziristan: ISPR Seven terrorists were killed while trying to infiltrate the Afghan-Pakistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday. A statement ... 04/16/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
(WASHINGTON) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.
When Kabul fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, scores of Afghan women were compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
While the Taliban forced many Afghan women to abandon their workplaces and universities, some chose to fight back.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton.
The image—shared to the official Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush.
It’s been more than 50 years since Columbia University became the site of student demonstrations amid unrest over the Vietnam War, but the spirit of protest on campus remains strong.
Late Tuesday night, dozens of protestors sieged Hamilton Hall—the iconic site of numerous student occupations over the course of history—and unfurled a banner to reveal the building’s new name by protestors: “Hind’s Hall.” The designation was in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli troops in Gaza.
(CHICAGO) — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide.
But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hours after student organizers and the school announced an agreement late Monday to curb protest activity in return for the reestablishment of an advisory committee on university investments and other commitments.
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By Tuesday, only two unoccupied tents remained, surrounded by abandoned folding chairs, cases of bottled water and other supplies.
By quickly defusing the protests in Evanston and avoiding the longer standoffs that happened on other campuses, the agreement at Northwestern offered an example of successful negotiations between anti-war demonstrators and administrators.