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A wave of dengue fever is sweeping through India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.Tens of thousands of people across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been struck by dengue fever this year, in one of the worst outbreaks in recent times that has further burdened the countries’ already fragile public health systems. ...

Deep beneath the ground in one of the world’s poorest countries sits at least $1 trillion of untapped mineral resources, according to a report published by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum . The South Asian country of 38 million people is estimated to hold more than 2.2 billion ...

Exactly four months after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the United States set up a high-security prison in its Guantanamo Bay base. Since then, “Gitmo” has held up to 780 detainees, prisoners of the so-called “war on terror”. Today 39 remain. Established during the presidency of George W Bush, ...

Air travel in Afghanistan is now limited to military aircraft evacuating foreigners and some Afghan nationals.Scenes of desperation in Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport have haunted the world as people try to leave Afghanistan and governments try to get their citizens and affiliated Afghan nationals out. After the Taliban ...

The Taliban armed group is eying power after it entered the capital Kabul, capturing 26 out of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in the past 10 days. The armed group, which was toppled from power in a United States-led invasion in 2001, stepped up its campaign to defeat the ...

Over the past seven days, the Taliban has taken control of at least 11 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals. The armed group now controls an estimated 65 percent of the country’s territory, as the US-led foreign forces are about to complete the pullout from the country after 20 years ...

The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has now been detected in more than 100 countries and in the coming months, it is expected to become the dominant strain globally, spreading quickly in countries with both low and high vaccination coverage, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). ...

Tens of thousands of people from nearly 100 cities have participated in protests in solidarity with Palestinians.Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world, from New York and London to Cape Town and Auckland, demanding an end to deadly Israeli air raids ...

Source link www.rferl.org The State Of Press Freedom Around The World Each year, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes the World Press Freedom Index, which ranks 180 countries according to their media independence, transparency, acts of violence against journalists, and several other criteria. According to the latest survey, ...

This year the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is likely to start on Tuesday, April 13. The pre-sunrise to sunset fast lasts anywhere from 10 to 21 hours depending on where in the world you are. The fast entails abstinence from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations to achieve ...