Birmingham: Around 73000 women affected by recent floods in Pakistan are expected to deliver babies in October. Around 650,000 expecting mothers face “high risk” to their health because of the ongoing post-floods situation, a joint report released by Aghosh UK and Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan has
Dollow, Somalia: A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time. Mohamed Ahmed Diriye is 60 years old, and he’s completing the grimmest
Sydney: Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost three months of 2022 still to go, Australia's largest city has recorded
Oslo: French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced. Ernaux, 82, was honoured "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements
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United Nations: The head of UN Peacekeeping Department, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, leaves Wednesday on a 10-day tour of four Asian countries, including Pakistan, a UN spokesman said. “The purpose of Mr Lacroix’s visit is to thank the countries for their contributions and support to UN peacekeeping, as
Bangkok: A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead 34 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said. The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened
Seoul: North Korea fired two ballistic missiles Thursday as it claimed its recent blitz of sanctions-busting tests were necessary countermeasures against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. As the United Nations Security Council met to discuss Pyongyang's Tuesday launch of an intermediate-range
Geneva: The deaths of dozens of children in Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organisation said. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the UN agency was conducting an
New Delhi: Eight people died after flash floods hit a river in India's eastern state of West Bengal in the latest incident of heavy seasonal rain causing havoc in South Asia. Around 70 people were rescued by disaster relief teams, while 13 were undergoing treatment at