Paris — UNESCO said on Tuesday that approximately 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are currently denied access to secondary education, an increase of about 200,000 compared to last year, and urged the Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on women’s education immediately.UNESCO noted that since March 2022 girls have been prevented from attending secondary schools, and…
On August 12, 2026, a significant astronomical event swept across much of the Northern Hemisphere as the Moon passed between the Earth and the Sun, casting its shadow from northern Russia across Greenland, Iceland, the North Atlantic and finally reaching parts of Spain. The entire celestial event lasted approximately 4 hours and 24 minutes, while…
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers. In Alabama, Jeremy Williams, convicted for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2021, could be the southern…
A “massive” Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s port of Novorossiysk has damaged two major grain export terminals and hit the last big Russian naval base on the Black Sea, reports say. Three people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and another 24 injured in the overnight attack, local officials said. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr…
More than 70,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for the US ambassador in Ottawa to be expelled for undermining diplomatic relations between the two neighbours. The online petition accuses Pete Hoekstra of “making repeated interventions in Canadian political discourse” and of having “normalised the Trump administration’s threats to annex Canada as the ’51st state’”…
It is unclear what the cabinet secretaries and other officials, along with the Air Force members working on the plane, knew of the operation. Members of the press have said they were not aware that they were on a decoy flight. Various ruses, often referred to as “shell games” by Secret Service personnel, are common….
Israeli settlers have been besieging two Palestinian families in their homes in the occupied West Bank since Sunday, with the families saying their supplies were running out and rights groups urging the authorities to step in. On Wednesday Israeli security forces were reported to have withdrawn from the Jewish settler outpost in the village of…
Venezuela has restored diplomatic ties with Israel after a 17-year break, the two governments announced following recent talks between their foreign ministers.According to joint statements, the agreement followed discussions between Israeli Foreign Minister Gadi (Gideon) Sa’ar and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia. The deal establishes a coordination mechanism to provide diplomatic and consular services to…
Venezuela has restored diplomatic ties with Israel after a 17-year break, the two governments announced following recent talks between their foreign ministers.According to joint statements, the agreement followed discussions between Israeli Foreign Minister Gadi (Gideon) Sa’ar and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia. The deal establishes a coordination mechanism to provide diplomatic and consular services to…
Venezuela has restored diplomatic ties with Israel after a 17-year break, the two governments announced following recent talks between their foreign ministers.According to joint statements, the agreement followed discussions between Israeli Foreign Minister Gadi (Gideon) Sa’ar and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia. The deal establishes a coordination mechanism to provide diplomatic and consular services to…
