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'I know it's immoral': Child labour still common in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» KARACHI - From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.
US repatriates Malaysians linked to 2002 Bali bombing
The New York Times, Published on 18/12/2024
» The US military said on Wednesday that it had repatriated two Malaysian men from its prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who admitted to committing war crimes for an affiliate of al-Qaida that carried out a deadly bombing in Bali in 2002.
Somalia to introduce direct universal suffrage in 2024
AFP, Published on 28/05/2023
» MOGADISHU - Somalia's government and federal member states said Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2024.
Cockfighting still a popular blood sport in southern Iraq
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» BASRA (IRAQ) - Two vicious roosters circle a filthy carpet in southern Iraq, facing off for a cockfight that has drawn dozens to a dimly lit cafe in the port city of Basra.
Vast cemetery in Iraq echoes 14 centuries of life and death
AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» NAJAF (IRAQ) - Tombstones stretch as far as the eye can see across Iraq's Wadi-al-Salam cemetery, often described as the world's biggest, which bears silent witness to life and death over 14 centuries.
Ghana braces as Sahel war spills into Gulf of Guinea
AFP, Published on 06/02/2023
» BAWKU (GHANA) - Standing near the dried river bed that marks Ghana’s northern border, Alima can see her hamlet, lying in Burkina Faso less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away.
At least 51 killed in twin Pakistan transport tragedies
AFP, Published on 29/01/2023
» At least 51 people were killed in two separate transport accidents in western Pakistan on Sunday, when a bus plunged off a bridge and a boat carrying a class of children capsized.
Tunisians shun vote for powerless new parliament
AFP, Published on 18/12/2022
» TUNIS - Tunisians on Saturday overwhelmingly boycotted an election for a new parliament which will have virtually no authority following a power grab by President Kais Saied in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
Somalia appeals for international help after deadly blasts
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» MOGADISHU - Somalia's president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people.
Somalia PM vows accountability over deadly hotel siege
AFP, Published on 22/08/2022
» MOGADISHU: Somalia's prime minister pledged that the government will be held accountable over the deadly Mogadishu hotel siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists whom he branded "children of hell".