Afghanistan on Saturday announced the nationwide closure of all educational institutions amid surging coronavirus infections and deaths in the country. According to the Health Ministry, all kindergartners, high schools as well as universities and religious seminars would remain closed...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Saturday called for urgent measures to end child labor which has increased due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stergomena Lawrence-Tax, executive secretary of the 16-country regional bloc, said it was sad that as other parts of the...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has accused lobby groups of working clandestinely to create crises in the North African country for staying in power. “I know who stirs up the street and provokes crises to stay in power," Saied said during a meeting on Friday with Prime Minister Hichem...

Here are some key facts about Algeria, a North African country of 44 million which was voting Saturday in its first parliamentary election since a popular uprising swept its longtime president from power in 2019. - Africa's biggest country - Algeria is Africa's biggest country, although...

A study focused on migrants in Austria showed a speed in the Syrian refugees integration within the Austrian society, where every Syrian immigrant feels as if he is an Austrian citizen.   The Syrians topped the list of refugees integrated in Austria through their ability to adapt...

A disabled 15-year-old Syrian boy paralyzed by a regime airstrike hopes to receive treatment in Turkey to restore his health. Mohammed Jamil Shahabi, who lives with his mother and three siblings in the district of al-Bab in northern Syria, was injured when hit by a piece of shrapnel in...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday that the appointment of the Syrian regime, which is involved in perpetrating crimes against humanity, to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board represents the greatest insult to the organization and all its staff and...

FALMOUTH, England (AP) — Towering steel fences, masses of police, protests on the beach: The Cornish seaside’s turquoise waters and white sandy beaches are looking decidedly less idyllic this week as leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies descend for a summit. U.S. President Joe...

ABI ADI, Ethiopia (AP) — First the Eritrean soldiers stole the pregnant woman’s food as she hid in the bush. Then they turned her away from a checkpoint when she was on the verge of labor. So she had the baby at home and walked 12 days to get the famished child to a clinic in the northern...

JERUSALEM (AP) — If all goes according to plan, Israel will swear in a new government on Sunday, ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year rule and a political crisis that inflicted four elections on the country in less than two years. The next government, which will be...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For the past four years, since she was 14, the notebook was always within her reach. Shukria Ahmadi titled it “Beautiful Sentences” and put everything in it. Poetry that she liked — sometimes a single line, sometimes long verses. Her drawings, like one of a delicate...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The outgoing chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran's nuclear program and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel's Channel...

BEIJING (AP) — The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet. The four pictures released by the China National Space Administration also show the upper stage of the...

Aid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing lifesaving aid delivered cross-border to reach Syria. The resolution is set to expire in exactly a month’s time on July 10th. NGOs are warning that a failure to renew...

Copenhagen, Denmark – Rihab Kassem, a retired nurse and grandmother of Syrian and Palestinian origin, arrived in Denmark more than eight years ago. She had been living in Yarmouk, an unofficial camp in Damascus for the Palestinian refugee community in Syria. Her initial...

Syrian regime shelling on the opposition-held Idlib enclave killed 11 people Thursday, one of the deadliest violations of a 15-month-old ceasefire, a war monitor said. An AFP correspondent in the area saw the remains of a house destroyed by the rocket fire as well as a charred vehicle...

The UN's top expert on human rights in Myanmar warned Wednesday of "massive loss of life" due to starvation and disease in eastern Kayah state as junta forces continue a deadly crackdown.  "The junta’s brutal, indiscriminate attacks are threatening the lives of many thousands of men,...

The Danish authorities rejected an appeal by the Syrian couple Omar al-Natour and his wife Asma against a deportation decision after six years of starting a new life in Denmark.   The Danish authorities told the couple that they had 30 days to leave for Syria or they would be...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials and experts in Asia have welcomed U.S. plans to share 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine with the developing world, but some say it would take more than donations alone to address huge vaccination gaps that threaten to prolong the pandemic....

NEW DELHI (AP) — A dilapidated building collapsed following heavy rains in the western Indian city of Mumbai, killing at least 11 people and injuring seven others, police said Thursday. Heavy monsoon rains during the day Wednesday had flooded several parts of the city that is India’s...