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Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023
Taliban deputy urges leader to lift education bans on Afghan women and girls
KABUL — A senior Taliban figure has called on the group’s leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the Associated Press news agency.Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.He told an audience at a religious school ceremony there was no reason to deny education to women and girls, “just as there was no justification for it in the past and there shouldn’t be one at all.”The government has barred females from education after sixth grade. Last September, there were reports authorities had also stopped medical training and courses for women.In Afghanistan,...
January 20, 2025

Taliban deputy urges leader to lift education bans on Afghan women and girls

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland
Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan's women
KABUL — Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned.Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for non-governmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.The NRC helped 772,484 Afghans in 2022 but by 2023, that number had fallen to 491,435.Last year, the aid agency helped 216,501 people and half of its beneficiaries are women."We see one after the other peer organization cutting programming and staff in the last two years. The biggest threat to programs helping Afghan women is funding cuts. The biggest threat to the future well-being of Afghan women is education,” said Egeland.The...
January 20, 2025

Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan's women

Imran Khan has faced more than 100 charges, all of which he decries as politically motivated
Imran Khan jailed for 14 years in corruption case
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him.It is the longest valid jail sentence the cricket star-turned-politician, who has been detained since August 2023, has received.He has faced charges in over 100 cases, ranging from leaking state secrets to selling state gifts — all of which he has decried as politically motivated.The latest case has been described by Pakistani authorities as the largest the country has seen, though the country has seen huge financial scandals in the past, some of which involved former leaders.Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were accused of receiving a parcel of land as a bribe from a real estate tycoon through the Al-Qadir Trust,...
January 17, 2025

Imran Khan jailed for 14 years in corruption case

Khan has undergone surgery and doctors say he is now out of danger
Man detained over knife attack on Bollywood actor
MUMBAI — Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have detained a man in connection with the knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, according to media reportsKhan was stabbed during a scuffle at his residence with an unidentified man on Thursday morning. The actor is recovering after surgery.Police have seized CCTV footage from the actor's residence in the upscale neighbourhood of Bandra and initial reports suggest the attack may have been intended as a theft.It is not clear whether the detained man was the intruder.The BBC has accessed a statement given by a nurse who works in Khan's home to the police, which provides some details about the events that unfolded on the night of the incident.Eliyama Philip, who takes care of Khan's son, said she first noticed the shadow of...
January 17, 2025

Man detained over knife attack on Bollywood actor

Yoon Suk Yeol
South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president 
SEOUL — Lawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol failed in their court effort to secure his release on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.Yoon was detained on Wednesday at his residence for questioning over rebellion allegations linked to his martial law declaration last month. He was sent to a detention center near the country’s capital, Seoul, after undergoing more than 10 hours of questioning on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials.During the questioning by the anti-corruption officials, Yoon exercised his right to remain silent. Yoon refused further questioning on Thursday as his lawyers maintained that the investigation was illegal.Lawyers had asked the Seoul Central District Court to consider his...
January 17, 2025

South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president 

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra talks to a reporter during a news conference at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 13, 2025
Even world leaders receive scam calls
BANGKOK — We are all vulnerable to the rapid spread of phone scams – including, it seems, world leaders. Thailand’s prime minister has revealed she got a call from an AI system, demanding money in the voice of another famous head of government.Paetongtarn Shinawatra did not reveal who the computer was mimicking, but said she received a message in a voice identical to a well-known leader.“The voice was very clear, and I recognized it immediately. They first sent a voice clip, saying something like, ‘How are you? I want to work together,’ and so on,” Paetongtarn said.She said she later missed a call from the same number, then received a voice message which cut to the chase: “They sent another voice message asking for a donation, saying, ‘You are the only country in (the...
January 17, 2025

Even world leaders receive scam calls

The SpaDeX mission took off on 30th December
India successfully conducts historic space-docking test
NEW DELHI — Indian space agency Isro has for the first time successfully conducted space docking by joining together two small craft in space.The technology is essential for the country's future ambition to build an Indian space station and put a person on the Moon.The mission called SpaDeX blasted off from Sriharikota launch pad in southern India on 30 December. The two spacecraft, lunched on a single rocket, separated in space. The docking process, initially scheduled for 7 January, was rescheduled a number of times.On Thursday morning, the space agency announced that it had created history by becoming only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at the Isro office in Bangalore as scientists carried...
January 16, 2025

India successfully conducts historic space-docking test

Pakistan PM orders probe into PIA’s controversial post
Pakistan PM orders probe after  PIA ad shows plane flying at Eiffel Tower 
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an investigation after the nation's flag carrier drew widespread criticism for putting out an advertisement that showed a plane flying toward the Eiffel Tower in Paris.The ad was meant to promote the resumption of Pakistan International Airlines' flights to the French capital and had the caption "Paris, we're coming today".Some social media users noted the ad's resemblance to the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001.The image has been viewed more than 21 million times on X since it was published last week and has drawn swift backlash.Sharif ordered an investigation into the matter, while Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has also criticized the ad, Pakistan's Geo News...
January 16, 2025

Pakistan PM orders probe after  PIA ad shows plane flying at Eiffel Tower 

Saif Ali Khan was injured in a midnight attack at his home
Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan stabbed at his Mumbai home
NEW DELHI — Popular Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has been admitted to hospital with multiple stab injuries after an intruder reportedly barged into his house and attacked him.The attack took place early Thursday morning in an upscale neighborhood of Mumbai city, where Khan lives with his family.The city police told BBC Marathi that the actor was injured after a scuffle broke out between him and an unidentified man who entered his house sometime after midnight.Khan's family has not made any public statements but his publicity team said it was a case of "attempted burglary" without giving any further details.Khan has been taken to the city's Lilavati Hospital where he is undergoing surgery.Niraj Uttamani, the hospital's chief operating officer, told BBC Marathi that...
January 16, 2025

Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan stabbed at his Mumbai home

Investigators from the anti-corruption agency  make their way to the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to execute an arrest warrant, Jan. 15, 2025
South Korean president arrested after weekslong showdown
SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month.Yoon left his residential compound with investigators in a motorcade Wednesday morning and was taken into custody – the first time such an action has been taken against a sitting president in South Korea.Yoon is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations related to his short-lived declaration, including over accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty.The embattled president has been holed up in his fortified residence for weeks surrounded by his...
January 15, 2025

South Korean president arrested after weekslong showdown

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