DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A new report from Bangladesh’s Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) indicates that 481,000 students dropped out of school due to rising poverty and income disparity in the country. The report said that of the total, at least 10% were female victims of child marriage, while 16% male children ...
ANKARA (AA) – A trial opened in a French court on Monday over a July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice which left 86 people dead. On July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel plowed a 19-ton truck at a crowd gathered on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, leaving 86 people dead and […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll from ravaging floods in Pakistan reached 1,325, with 11 more fatalities reported over the past 24 hours, the country’s national disaster agency said on Monday. All fresh casualties were reported from the southern province of Sindh, where a fresh spell of floods has inundated more land in the ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 more injured as a convoy of vehicles hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region on Monday. The explosion took place on a road between Djibo and Bourzanga, according to a statement by Rodolphe Sorgo, the governor of Sahel, which […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Iran on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers in the province of Hormozgan. There were no reports yet of fatalities or damage. Earlier the same day, two powerful earthquakes measuring 6.8 and 5.3 magnitude on the Richter scale hit southwestern China and […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish military helicopter has crashed in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry announced. Seven of the eight personnel on board were rescued, while a search operation is underway for the remaining individual, the ministry said in a statement. The Sikorsky helicopter was on a supply mission and had to make a […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry said Taher Mohammad Zakarneh, 19, was fatally shot by the Israeli forces in Qabatia town, south of Jenin city. Another Palestinian was injured by Israeli firing and is under trea...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday he is “less confident” about the success of a compromise for reviving the Iran nuclear deal. Borrell told reporters that the positive outcome of the EU-mediated negotiations between Iran and the US on reactivating the nuclear deal is “in danger” and that the […]...
MOSCOW/ISLAMABAD (AA) – Two employees of the Russian Embassy were killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “On September 5, at 10:50 a.m. Kabul time, an unknown militant detonated an explosive device in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the consular section of the ...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s political groups held a second round of national dialogue on Monday in an effort to resolve the country’s months-long political crisis. A statement by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office said participants agreed to form “a technical team” to bring viewpoints closer “with a view to holding early election...
