Category: 2. World

CAIRO — The U.N. migration agency warned on Tuesday that humanitarian efforts in Sudan’s war-torn North Darfur region might come to a complete halt unless immediate funding and safe delivery of relief supplies are ensured.

“Despite the rising…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The death toll from a capsized boat carrying Rohingya migrants from Myanmar rose to 26 on Tuesday, after rescuers in Thailand and Malaysia recovered more bodies at sea.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said…

Parul Begum lives on a remote sand island in Kurigram, northern Bangladesh – one of the country’s poorest…

As always in crisis and conflict, women and girls are hit hardest. Every day they face relentless climate challenges, food insecurity, sexual violence, abductions, and more.

South Sudan has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the…

BAGHDAD — Iraqis headed to the polls on Tuesday to vote in a parliamentary election marked by tight security and a boycott by a major political bloc.

A total of 8,703 polling stations were open across the country for the general election. Members…

ANKARA. Turkey — Turkey’s defense ministry says a Turkish military cargo plane crashed near the Azerbaijan-Georgia border on Tuesday.

The ministry said on X that the C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey.

It…

Scientists in Australia have identified a new species of native bee with tiny, devil-like horns that have earned it a playfully hellish name – “lucifer.”

The species, Megachile lucifer, was discovered by scholars surveying a critically…