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. […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear two separate pleas challenging the government of western Gujarat state’s remission of sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Subhashini Ali, independent journalist Revati Laul, and Trinamool Congress party la...
Karbala, Iraq (AFP): The bodies of two pilgrims were pulled from an Iraqi shrine Monday, two days after its partial collapse in a landslide, taking the overall toll to seven dead, rescuers said. Emergency workers were trying to remove the rubble and debris from the shrine known as Qattarat al-Imam Ali near the Shiite holy […]
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): The families of Sierra Leoneans who died in protests against the spiraling cost of living arrived at a morgue in the capital Freetown on Monday to identify their loved ones. A small crowd gathered outside the Connaught Hospital, where officials said the remains of 31 people were waiting to be identified. […...
