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Four Indian-American women have been racially abused and smacked by a Mexican-American woman in the US state of Texas. The woman hurled racist slurs at them that they are "ruining" America and should "go back to India".

There have been one million COVID-19 deaths so far this year – a “tragic milestone” that must lead to more people being vaccinated against the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported on Thursday.

The “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old, with no end in sight, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace.

To mark five years of the Rohingya genocide, Refugees International hosted a media briefing with the help of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants on August 23, featuring Rohingya leaders from inside the refugee camps and the diaspora as well as policy experts.

UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers” without urgent intervention and support. In the last five months, the number of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia without reliable access to safe water, has risen from 9.5 million to 16.2 million.

The mayor of Edison, a New Jersey town in the United States of America, denounced the inclusion of a bulldozer at the Indian Independence Day parade, following pressure from...

Samina Yasmeen, The University of Western Australia Tensions between former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and the current coalition government are coming to a head. Khan made a speech in the...

JULIA CONLEY A new study details the disastrous consequences that would result for marine life across the world's oceans if current levels of fossil fuel emissions are maintained, with up to...

Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has been booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act for threatening police, judiciary and other state institutions at his Islamabad rally a day ago.

Legendary Pakistani playback singer and ghazal singer Nayyara Noor who was known as Bulbul-e-Pakistan dies at 71.

Famous supermodel Bella Hadid said she is not afraid to lose modeling jobs for her support to the Palestinian cause, as she said she realized she’s not “on this earth to be a model.”

United Nations agencies and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on Thursday urged Israel to allow Palestinian human rights and humanitarian organizations...