Suicide attack targets soldiers in Pakistani city of Quetta
Quetta is the capital of Balochistan province near the Afghan border. The province has seen a decades-long insurgency by separatists...
Month: September 2021
As China woos the Taliban, Uyghurs in Afghanistan fear for their lives
Tuhan, who is using a pseudonym to protect her identity from the Taliban, is caught between a homeland where Uyghurs...
Mortgage Payoff Eliminates Up to 15 Years of Payments
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Nearly 30% of 138,000 assessed species are facing extinction, group warns
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported during its annual Red List update on Saturday in Marseille,...
Women’s protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul turns violent
Footage shared by Afghan news network TOLO news Saturday showed a confrontation between Taliban guards and some of the women....
Thailand’s Prime Minister has survived another no-confidence vote
Prayut received 264 votes in favor and 208 against. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and four other cabinet ministers also survived...
Women stage protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul
In spite of the risk, a group called the Women's Political Participation Network marched on the street in front of...
ISIS supporter shot dead after New Zealand shopping mall ‘terrorist attack’
"This afternoon at approximately 2:40 p.m., a violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a...
Chaos inside a New Zealand supermarket after shoppers stabbed in ‘terrorist attack’ – CNN Video
New Zealand police have shot and killed an ISIS supporter who injured at least six people in a supermarket "terrorist...
China will create a stock exchange in Beijing
President Xi Jinping announced the Beijing-based exchange at an international trade fair on Thursday, saying that he wanted to create...
Marking 20 years since 9/11: Media outlets plan special coverage to commemorate deadly attacks
"All you could do for people was cover the stories of their loved ones who were lost. They wanted people...
Schools in Nigerian state shut after mass kidnapping of students by gunmen
At least 73 students were abducted from a state-run high school in Zamfara's Maradun district, local police said in a...
Ivory Coast TV presenter convicted of glorifying rape
The court also fined the presenter, Yves de Mbella, 2 million CFA francs ($3,619.91) and banned him from leaving Abidjan,...
Taliban show off captured weapons at Kandahar victory parade
In videos posted on social media, the Taliban paraded hardware left behind by both Afghan and US forces after the...
Hong Kong just won back ‘Asia’s biggest’ tech conference
Rise, an annual tech conference whose recent speakers have included executives from Uber (UBER), Alibaba (BABA) and Stripe, said Thursday...
Ukrainian President accomplishes years-long quest for a White House visit with Biden meeting
The much-anticipated gathering could have high-stakes implications for Zelensky, who has vied for American support since he took over in...
African artists are banking on a record-breaking contemporary and modern art market
Written by Daniel Renjifo, CNNFor Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent's social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution...
There’s another big risk brewing in China
What's happening: Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, is in dire straits. It warned this week that it could...
Syrian oil spill spreads across the Mediterranean
Syrian officials said last week that a tank filled with 15,000 tons of fuel had been leaking since August 23...
Kerry warns nations are running out of time to decarbonize and challenges China to move away from coal
"I have no doubt that wealthiest nations ultimately will get to a zero carbon or net (zero) carbon economy," Kerry...
