TEHRAN, Iran (AA) — Hundreds of schoolgirls have been hospitalized in different cities across Iran since November last year in what has been described as a wave of a mysterious illness. Though the exact number of students affected by the poisoning is yet unknown, a senior lawmaker on Wednesday put the figure tentatively at “nearly [&hell...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran’s president stepped in after more than 100 students were hospitalised Wednesday, the latest in a spate of poisonings at girls’ schools that has gripped the country. The president’s website said Ebrahim Raisi had assigned Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi to provide “continuous information on the re...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The poisoning of schoolgirls in central Iran’s Qom city, which has snowballed into a grave public health issue in recent months, got a new twist on Sunday with an official saying it was aimed at “shutting girls’ education”. Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi told a press conference in the northeastern ci...
ANKARA (AA) – Students will return to schools in four provinces of Türkiye’s quake-hit regions from March 1, the national education minister has said. “As of March 1, we resume education in city centers and all districts of Adana, Kilis, Diyarbakir, and Sanliurfa,” Mahmut Ozer told reporters in the Malatya province, one of the regions [&hellip...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN and several international humanitarian agencies have asked the Taliban to expand exceptions for women to work in humanitarian, health and education sectors. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths traveled to Kabul last week with a delegation including Janti Soeripto (president of Save the Children US), Sofia ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed held talks with the Taliban about women’s rights, a spokesperson said on Friday. UN’s top female diplomat Amina Mohammed, Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, and Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Political, Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Hurairah Yasir’s discussions on faith and doubt with her mates at a boarding school in the northern Baramulla district of Kashmir impacted her to an extent that she decided to write a book. She was in class 9, aged 14. “I couldn’t resist myself. I wanted to say it […]
LONDON (AA) – Stockholm University has apologized to a Turkish student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for a summer 2023 i...
ANKARA (AA) – The Afghan Taliban have welcomed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) recent declaration on Afghanistan but asked the international community not to “interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.” In a statement, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the group which seized power in the war-torn countr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Hundreds of Bangladeshi people on Monday protested the death of an expatriate Bangladeshi student in police shooting in the US on Wednesday. Protesters formed a human chain in front of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka condemning the death of Sayed Arif Faisal, 20, in the US. Faisal was [&hellip...
