أفادت السلطات بارتفاع حصيلة ضحايا الفيضانات العارمة التى ضربت ولاية أوتاراخند شمالى الهند، إلى 54 شخصا على الأقل، فيما أوقعت الفيضانات عشرات القتلى فى نيبال المجاورة أيضا.
وأشار المركز الحكومى الهندى لإدارة الكوارث اليوم الخميس، حسبما نقلت "روسيا (...)
Over the past 30 years, the number of adults (aged 30-79 years) living with hypertension worldwide has doubled to 626 million women and 652 million men in 2019, from an estimated 331 million women and 317 million men in 1990, with most of this (...)
The Kuwaiti government has announced on Wednesday that it has resumed commercial flights with six countries, including Egypt, after having previously restricted flights over COVID-19 concerns, Kuwaiti official news agency KUNA reported.
The other (...)
journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan commander said.
Afghan special forces had been fighting to retake the main (...)
Police in Bangladesh arrested eight people Saturday on murder charges in connection with a factory fire that killed at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door, a senior police official said.
The blaze began (...)
A fire engulfed a food and beverage factory outside Bangladesh's capital, killing at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door, fire officials said Friday.
The blaze began Thursday night at the five-story Hashem (...)
Egypt has updated the anti-coronavirus safety measures for all arrivals from abroad, including those coming from countries struggling with new COVID-19 variants, according to a statement released by EgyptAir, the national flagship carrier, on (...)
President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans Monday for sharing the shots (...)
نفذت السلطات النيبالية عمليات إنقاذ يوم الأربعاء بعد أن قتلت فيضانات مفاجئة سبعة أشخاص على الأقل وخلفت ما لا يقل عن 20 في عداد المفقودين ، من بينهم ستة أجانب، بحسب " نيويورك نيوز".
Nepal: Flash floods wreak havoc in Sindhupalchok. At least 7 deaths (...)
On 16 January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world's largest adult immunisation drive across India.
Launching the country's vaccine drive in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), PM Modi said, "A vaccination drive (...)
وصف ناشطون في نيبال مشروع قانون مقترح يمنع النساء من السفر إلى الخارج دون إذن من عائلاتهن ومسؤولي الحكومة المحلية بأنه غير دستوري و«سخيف».
وحسب مشروع القانون الذي قدمته وزارة الهجرة الأسبوع الماضي في محاولة لمنع الاتجار بالنساء، سيتعين على جميع (...)
وُصف قانون مقترح في نيبال يمنع النساء من السفر إلى الخارج دون إذن من عائلاتهن ومسؤولي الحكومة المحلية بأنه غير دستوري و "سخيف".
ووفقا لصحيفة "الجارديان" البريطانية ستطلب المقترحات ، التي قدمتها وزارة الهجرة الأسبوع الماضي في محاولة لمنع الاتجار (...)
With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal.
Honduras ``cannot wait on (...)
More than 70.6 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,600,791 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases (...)
Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders were holding fresh talks Monday aimed at ending a monthslong standoff along their disputed border in the remote Ladakh region.
The talks were being held on the Indian side of the frontier in the Chushul (...)
China on Tuesday called India's designation of the region along their disputed border as a union territory an illegal move, and voiced new objections to infrastructure construction that seems to strengthen India's position in the area.
Foreign (...)
More than 9.6 million people across South Asia have been affected by severe floods, with hundreds of thousands struggling to get food and medicine, officials and aid organizations said Wednesday.
About 550 people have died in India, Bangladesh and (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified the appointment of new ambassadors to several foreign capitals, including Washington, local media reported on Monday.
The president ratified the appointment of ambassadors Moatez Zahran to (...)
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday.
Nine people were killed and more than 30 were missing in Myagdi district, 200 km (125 miles) (...)
A group of students at the British University in Egypt (BUE) has created a campaign called "Abl El Bedaya", focused on pre-marital counselling for young couples.
Abl El Bedaya (Before the beginning) is a graduation project launched by Abdelrahman (...)
India allowed shops in residential areas to reopen from Saturday, more than a month after the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, federal and state officials said.
The federal home ministry said late on Friday that (...)
The Qatari regime's scandals continue to overflow from the reports of human-rights organisations despite the Gulf statelet's vehement attempts to suppress the truth about the shoddy state of affairs in the country.
This is being done through an (...)
About 500 people entered self-isolation at India's presidential palace on Tuesday after a worker's relative tested positive for the coronavirus in the latest alarm close to public figures as the pandemic spreads through densely populated South (...)
The United Nations published a report on the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the world economy at the end of March, outlining the effects of a crisis that has taken the world by storm and the measures that have been implemented in order to (...)
India extended on Tuesday a nationwide lockdown for its 1.3 billion people until May 3 as its prime minister warned of economic sacrifices to save lives as the number of coronavirus cases crossed 10,000.
Sharp downward revisions to economic growth (...)
