Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation’s Taliban rulers banned them from higher education. Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on women’s live...
A new analysis released Wednesday shows that earnings inequality in the United States has risen dramatically over the past four decades and continues to accelerate, with the top 0.1% seeing wage growth of 465% between 1979 and 2021 while the bottom 90% experienced just 29% growth during that same period. Examining the latest annual earnings [&...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The latest “Twitter Files” thread exposing the inner workings of pre-Elon Musk Twitter discloses how the social media giant helped the US military with a secret ‘PsyOp’ campaign. “Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media gi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply rebuked the Taliban on Tuesday for expanding restrictions on women’s education, most recently banning women from university study indefinitely. “The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities, to keep secondary schools...
Afghanistan (AFP): Labourer Rasool Badshah has moved into a new home six months after a deadly earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan. His mother had unfortunately been killed in the earthquake as the walls collapsed. More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless after the 5.9-magnitude quake — the deadliest in Af...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two Syrian regime soldiers were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the vicinity of the capital Damascus on Tuesday, reported Syrian regime news agency SANA. The agency quoted an unnamed military source as saying: “At about 00:30 local time around dawn, Tuesday, Israeli forces carried out air aggression wi...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany on Monday called on Iran to show “political will” to resolve the standoff over a nuclear probe following the visit of a UN nuclear watchdog delegation to Tehran as part of its inquiry into undeclared uranium particles found in Iran. “Iran must now come up with technically plausible answers, which now […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday that his country is ready to resume relations with Saudi Arabia “when Riyadh is willing to.” “Tehran is ready to resume diplomatic ties with Riyadh, reopen embassies,” Amir-Abdollahian told the Tehran Dialogue Forum. The top Iranian diplomat ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday called for the deployment of UN monitors in the occupied West Bank. The call came after two Palestinians were killed on Saturday when an Israeli settler rammed his car into them in the city of Nablus. “We call on the United Nations teams stationed […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia plunged into political uncertainty Sunday as its main opposition alliance called on President Kais Saied to “leave immediately”, a day after voters overwhelming snubbed elections for a neutered parliament. That comes with Saied’s government negotiating a nearly $2-billion package to bail out the ...
