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Pakistan on Friday, November 10, declared the extension of legal residence status for approximately 1.4 million Afghan refugees until the end of the year, following a four-month delay. However, the country maintained its stance against halting deportations of undocumented Afghans…

American based Gallup institute published the results of its new survey on the situation of women in Afghanistan on Friday, November 10. According to the survey conducted in July, only 11 percent of women in Afghanistan are satisfied with their…

About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update…

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducted a violent attack on civilians in West Darfur, killing 1,300 people and injuring 2,000 others while 310 remain missing, Al Jazeera reported. The latest atrocities are part of a wider campaign by the RSF…

US surgeons have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye although the doctors caution that it remains unknown if the patient, Aaron James, will ever be able to see with his new left eye. Almost all…

Voters in the Minnesota city of St. Louis Park have elected Nadia Mohamed, a 27-year-old Somali-American, as the city’s first Black, first Somali, and first Muslim mayor. Having grown up and lived in the city for 18 years, Mohamed becomes…

Rula Dashti, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), has revealed that the cumulative number of children killed in Gaza over the course of a month now surpasses the total count of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled a new framework on Thursday for building climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems to strengthen their climate resilience and decarbonize depending on their capacities. According to the international organization, it is designed to enhance health…

The Indonesian Religious Affairs Ministry has translated the Holy Quran into as many as 26 regional languages through its research and development centre, according to a local news outlet. Mohammad Ishom, head of the project, explained that the 26 regional…

Africa is estimated to lose about $30 billion or 15% of its Gross Domestic Products (GDP) annually to climate change effect by 2030, an international financial expert said on Thursday. In an address to participants from about 32 countries of…