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No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon
AFP, Published on 24/09/2025
» LAHORE — Abdullah Abbas waded through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his motorcycle and deliver a food order on time.
Migrant workers ‘face growing risk’ in Saudi Arabia
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» PARIS - Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said grave abuses were being committed on giant construction sites in Saudi Arabia and warned the risks to migrant workers could increase as the building of stadiums for the 2034 World Cup gathers pace.
‘Contemplated suicide’: Ethiopians recount SE Asia scam centre horrors
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» NAIROBI - Starved, beaten and electrocuted, Ahmed remains traumatised months after being trafficked to Southeast Asia, one of an untold number of Africans forced to work in scam centres far from home.
Transit and 'torture': Rescued migrants recount Libya horrors
AFP, Published on 04/05/2022
» ON BOARD THE GEO BARENTS - On a medical ship off the Italian coast, rescued migrants are colouring in a map of Africa, where many started their perilous journeys toward Europe.
Dangerous stray dogs pose culling dilemma in N.Africa
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» ARIANA (TUNISIA) - Packs of stray dogs, a common sight in North African cities, are in the crosshairs after the deaths of two schoolchildren, but animal rights groups urge more humane solutions than mass culling.
India's born-again elephants repel four-legged rampages
AFP, Published on 12/11/2021
» THEPPAKADU (INDIA) - Moorthy killed 21 people and terrorised entire villages in southern India for years before he was captured and retrained to repel similar attacks by other wild elephants starved due to deforestation.
1.2m take shelter as new cyclone bears down on India
AFP, Published on 26/05/2021
» KOLKATA: The second powerful cyclone to hit India in two weeks bore down on the east coast Wednesday, sending hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for emergency shelters ahead of the devastating winds and rain.
India sends 'man-eater' tiger to lifetime in captivity
AFP, Published on 08/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: A tiger blamed for killing three people will spend the rest of its life in captivity, Indian officials said Sunday, saying the big cat was "too dangerous" to be allowed to roam free.
Four rare mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» KAMPALA: Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.
3 dead, 500,000 evacuated as typhoon pounds Philippines
Agencies, Published on 03/12/2019
» MANILA: Typhoon Kammuri barrelled into the Philippines’ main island, killing at least three people, displacing half a million more and shutting its main airport.