KHAIRPUR, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of Pakistanis displaced by unprecedented floods are now facing an even worse ordeal: the outbreak of waterborne and other diseases. The Sindh Health Department confirmed in a statement that over 170,000 people, including 52,000 suffering from diarrhea, have been recorded from flood-affected areas of the prov...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – With another 10 deaths over the past 24 hours, the overall toll from massive floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains across Pakistan reached 1,061, an official said on Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, an official from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the death toll ha...
Mbera, Mauritanie (AFP): Thousands of Malians are fleeing to the Mbera refugee camp just across the border in Mauritania as security in the country becomes untenable. Central Mali is a hotspot of the violence that has metastasised across the Sahel, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced. Mbera serves as a haven not only from fighters [&...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has started vaccination for schoolchildren aged between 5 and 11 with pediatric Pfizer jabs. The first dose of pediatric Pfizer vaccines received from the COVAX facility will be given to children in 21 centers in the capital Dhaka starting from August 25. However, all the children aged 5-11 years across [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The wife of a Palestinian detainee said Thursday that her husband’s “health condition is very dangerous, and he may lose his life at any moment” to the hunger strike that he has continued for 166 days. Dalal said Khalil Awawdeh’s detention amounts to a “decision to kill him” and expressed fears [&he...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Muhammad Syed, the suspect accused in a string of Muslim killings in the US state of New Mexico, has been charged with a third murder count. Syed, 51, has been charged with the killing of Naeem Hussain, 25, who was shot to death in his vehicle in an Albuquerque parking lot […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 14 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp and arrested three Palestinians after searching their homes, according to local residents. The raid led to protests during which Israeli forces used live fire, rubber-coated bullets and tear gas ca...
PARIS (AA) – Four people, including the suspected shooter and an accomplice, have been arrested in France for the murder of an Afghan man, local media reported on Wednesday. Abdul Quayyem Ahmadzai, a refugee living in France since 2017, was shot dead in the northeastern city of Colmar on Aug. 14 after confronting a biker […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Another 39 people have fallen prey to the raging floods caused by torrential downpours in southern and northern Pakistan over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall toll to over 700 since June. The majority of the deaths have been reported in the provinces of southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan, where […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An officer belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in Syria, according to the Iranian media. The semi-official Mehr news agency said that Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Alijani was killed while on duty on the evening of Monday in Syria. The circumstances of his death are not yet clear. […]
