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Taliban leader bans windows overlooking women's areas
AFP, Published on 30/12/2024
» KABUL - The Taliban's supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be blocked.
US Democrats could allow remote voting in Biden nomination
AFP, Published on 12/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party could adopt rules Tuesday allowing delegates to vote remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic to nominate Joe Biden for 2020 US presidential race, a party official said.
'Virtual' Emmys open with cardboard cutouts, remote video calls
AFP, Published on 21/09/2020
» LOS ANGELE: Host Jimmy Kimmel opened the Emmys on Sunday from an empty Los Angeles theater filled with cardboard cutouts of the nominees, marking the start of Hollywood's first major Covid-era award show.
Boko Haram attack halts aid in remote Nigerian town
AFP, Published on 03/03/2018
» LAGOS - Humanitarian work has been suspended until next weekend in a remote town in northeast Nigeria after a Boko Haram attack killed three aid workers, the UN said on Saturday.
Bangladesh delays plan to shift Rohingya to remote island
AFP, Published on 01/10/2018
» DHAKA: Bangladesh has postponed plans to begin relocating Rohingya Muslims to a remote island, officials said Monday, amid staunch opposition to the controversial idea among refugees living near the Myanmar border.
Penguin memes take flight after Trump tariffs remote island
AFP, Published on 04/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump's tariffs have become a black and white issue on social media, where penguin memes have gone viral after he targeted an island inhabited by the flightless birds, but no people.
Ailing, pregnant woman airlifted to safety from remote village
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 05/09/2019
» KANCHANABURI: A Karen woman suffering pregnancy complications was safely airlifted to hospital in heavy rain from a remote village near a wildlife sanctuary in Sangkhla Buri district.
Remote Cape with 'world's cleanest air' offers smog respite
AFP, Published on 18/03/2019
» CAPE GRIM (AUSTRALIA) - As much of Asia wheezes, coughs and sniffles its way through another smog season, one isolated and windswept corner of Australia is serving as the global standard for clean air.
Myanmar's war displaces new generation on remote river frontier
Reuters, Published on 28/04/2021
» MAE HONG SON: Myanmar's coup has brought war back to a remote frontier after 25 years, sending a new generation of villagers in both Myanmar and Thailand running for their lives from bullets and bombs.
DES to mull funding options for remote study plan
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 26/05/2021
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry's efforts to provide free mobile internet packages for students to support their online study has hit a snag as it cannot draw money from the Digital Fund because this subsidy is not included in the fund's stated purpose.