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Women in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan, walking to fetch water from a nearby spring as there is no water available in their village. Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell
Kabul, Afghanistan — As the world marks the…
A long-dormant volcano erupted in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman.
The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia erupted on Sunday morning, leaving the neighboring village of…
Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent
Image source, APAndriy Yermak and Marco Rubio in Geneva on Sunday
Donald Trump wants a…
The world appears to have dodged a bullet. Donald Trump and team are walking back from their latest and most outlandish proposal for peace in Ukraine. American and Ukrainian negotiators meeting in Geneva are working to revise the…
MEBOURNE, Australia — An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred Tuesday from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber.
Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Kyiv was ready to move forward with a US-backed peace deal, and…