Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Aged between 7-15, Afghan boys and girls fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. As their peers enjoy their childhood in other parts of the world, these children have […]
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy died Tuesday of wounds he sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry. Mohammad Shehda was injured when he was shot by Israeli soldiers in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem city. According to local activists, the injured boy was arrested by Israeli forces, which [&...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Decriminalization of abortion up until 24 weeks of pregnancy has sparked a debate after the Constitutional Court in Colombia ruled in favor of the practice. A day after the high court ruled 5-4 late Monday to decriminalize the procedure, President Ivan Duque blasted the decision. “I am pro-life and I believe [&hel...
A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by a“charity train” from Turkey to Afghanistan was delivered to Kabul Monday. Medical aid packages were delivered to the Health Ministry of the interim Afghan administration in a ceremony. It was coordinated by Turkey’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and with the suppo...
College campuses have been the site of 141 shootings so far during the 2021-22 school year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. A 19-year-old former student was shot and killed after a high school basketball game a week ago in Beloit, Wisconsin. Three teens were hospitalized after a shooting Monday outside Chaparral High School in [&hellip...
Two progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would replace the expired federal child tax credit with more generous benefits. Millions of poor and working-class American families were affected by the recent lapse of the benefit. Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Mondaire Jones of New York introduced th...
A Toronto-area Ahmadiyya missionary is facing child pornography and extortion charges in the United States. Luqman Rana is charged with 10 counts of producing pornography of five children and extorting them by threatening to injure their reputation for personal gain. If convicted of all counts, he faces a mandatory term of 15 to 160 years [&he...
Save the Children says collapse of health system, driven largely by western countries’ freeze of Afghan foreign exchange, comes at deadly cost for children. KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children who are unable to access healthcare facilities, Save the Children, a leading humanitarian organ...
“Midwives,” a film about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice, has earned one of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival’s major awards. On Friday, it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking. It features the story of two midwives. Hla, is Buddhist and part of the majority population in Burma. Her apprentice, [&h...
Somalia’s public education system has been hampered by 30 years of conflict, poverty, weak governance, and climate change, affecting nearly 3 million people. That includes 1.4 million girls, who require assistance to attend school. Somalia was once considered one of the leading countries in the Horn of Africa for quality education, owing to a ...
