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Teaching refugee women from Pakistan, other states to drive goes farther than destination STONE MOUNTAIN: In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee ...

The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is being celebrated by Muslims around the world today, with family reunions, new clothes and sweet treats.Almost four million Muslims in Britain began their celebrations today after the first sighting of the new crescent moon, bringing ...

Days like this it’s difficult to know where to start. What’s an April Fool’s joke and what isn’t? Search me.Is J.K. Rowling going to be arrested and charged with ‘hate crime’ for insisting that women don’t have willies?This time last year, that would have been a nailed-on April Fool. ...

If ever a film was ahead of its time, it was British director Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. It came out in 1960, a year in which cinema-goers were more accustomed to a diet of endless war films, romantic melodramas and — from America — John Wayne westerns.And so a movie ...

Three members of the British Parliament have moved an Early Day Motion demanding the Indian government to deliver “much-awaited justice” to the Kashmiri Pandit community while urging the UK government to extend commitment for the victims of “this genocide.” The motion comes ahead January 19, which is observed as ...

LONDON —  2024 will pose a major test of democratic rule as an estimated 4 billion people in more than 50 nations — almost half the world’s population — are set to vote in national elections, with the outcomes likely to shape global politics for years or decades to ...

It was a 'life saving' moment Muzhda Naderi had feared would never happen and when this week she finally stepped onto British soil, she said it was 'like a beautiful dream come true...'For more than a year after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the former British Council (BC) ...

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailA ministerial row has broken out over the fate of Afghan special forces afterThe Independent revealed soldiers who served shoulder-to-shoulder with the British had been abandoned by the UK.The ...

Afghan special forces trained and funded by Britain and who worked side-by-side with British troops in Afghanistan in the fight against the Taliban are now facing the possibility of being deported from Pakistan, where the Afghan troops and their families fled, according to a BBC report. The 200 special ...

At least 20,000 applications were lodged in the 12 months to June of this yearBy David Barrett Published: 22:12 GMT, 1 December 2023 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 1 December 2023 Soaring numbers of foreign nationals are claiming asylum after arriving on regular visas, the Mail can reveal today.At least ...