Olympics athlete Marzieh Hamidi fled from Afghanistan in 2021 after the Taliban regime took over | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Even as the Afghan cricket team wins accolades for its performance in the ICC Champion’s Cup Trophy in Pakistan, 22-year-old Olympics athlete Marzieh Hamidi faces death threats for calling for a boycott against the team. … Read more
Palestinians perform the mass prayer of Tarawih during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, near the rubble of buildings, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel said on Sunday (March 2. 2025) it is stopping the entry of all … Read more
Imran Khan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has appealed to the international community, particularly the United States, to reaffirm its commitment to democracy, human rights and regional stability. Dawn reported that in an article published in Time magazine in his name, the incarcerated politician congratulated U.S. President Donald … Read more
Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino and Maricel Cohen de Mulino arrive at the Legislative Palace on the day Uruguay’s new President-elect Yamandu Orsi is sworn into office, in Montevideo, Uruguay, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Yamandú Orsi, a telegenic left-leaning former mayor and history teacher, took office as Uruguay’s new President on … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shake hands during a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, England, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP It was supposed to cap a week of whirlwind diplomacy advancing the prospect of peace in Ukraine. But a summit of European leaders … Read more
Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions on and near the border with Ukraine have killed 652 civilians so far. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions on and near the border with Ukraine have killed 652 civilians so far, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee told the TASS news agency in remarks published … Read more
Activists attend a protest against cuts to government agencies by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his young aides at the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), outside the SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California, U.S., March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Demonstrators gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. on Saturday (March 1, 2025) to … Read more
Uganda’s last outbreak, discovered in September 2022, killed at least 55 people before it was declared over in January 2023. Representative file image. | Photo Credit: AP A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday (March 1, 2025), in a setback for health officials … Read more
U.S. District Judge sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the President’s authority to oust the head of the independent agency. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday (March … Read more
Handout picture released by Bolivian Police shows a woman walking close to the wreckage of a bus that collided with another one on a highway near Uyuni, Bolivia on March 1, 2025. Two passenger buses collided in the early hours of March 1, 2025, on a highway in southern Bolivia, leaving at least 37 dead, … Read more