New Delhi - India's Supreme Court has overturned a decades-old ban by religious authorities that forbid women from entering one of the holiest Hindu temples in the country. The Sabarimala Ayyappa temple was one of
more 390Canada's parliament has unanimously voted to strip Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship over her handling of the Rohingya crisis. Thursday's vote came a week after Canadian lawmakers approved a
more 297Tangier, Morocco - Nestled in Tangier's backstreets, Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral rises above the fracas of heated market trading as Archbishop Santiago Agrelo Martinez leads an impassioned service. Most of his congregation are sub-Saharan
more 324New York - The World Food Programme (WFP) has said there "very well could be" famine in remote areas of Yemen where the UN's food agency does not have access, painting a bleak picture
more 381Pakistan's new government, headed by new Prime Minister Imran Khan, has inherited strained relations with two key countries, India and the United States. Observers are questioning how the country's new leadership will seek to reshape its foreign
more 361Bitcoin's big stock market debut is coming at a bad time. Three of the world's top makers of cryptocurrency technology are planning to sell shares, giving investors a new way to bet on digital
more 400BASRA, Iraq: Sweet Iraqi dates adorn tables in homes across the country, but the fruit tree and national symbol has come under threat from conflict and crippling drought.Shopping in the southern city of Basra,
more 311GENEVA: A Yemeni activist who was held and allegedly tortured for months by Houthi rebels this week criticized the UN-backed peace process for his country as “naive,” warning against “humanizing” his captors.Hisham Al-Omeisy, an
more 331BASRA, Iraq: Sweet Iraqi dates adorn tables in homes across the country, but the fruit tree and national symbol has come under threat from conflict and crippling drought.Shopping in the southern city of Basra,
more 310A flotilla of small boats has rescued more than 40 people from an Air Niugini plane that crashed into a lagoon in the South Pacific nation of Micronesia. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft hit the
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