Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world | Religion News
Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is typically greeted […]
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Myanmar earthquake kills over 1,600 and leaves countless buried | Earthquakes News
The smell of decaying bodies permeates the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city as volunteers work frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of […]
‘Eid of Sadness’: Gaza marks festival amid Israeli bombings, lack of food | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate as they marked Eid al-Fitr with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to […]
Thousands mark Statehood Day of Serbia with anticorruption protest | Protests News
Thousands of Serbians blocked the main boulevard of the central city Kragujevac, the latest in a series of student-led protests over last November’s deadly collapse […]
More than 700 killed as DR Congo military fights M23 rebels | Conflict News
At least 773 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) largest city of Goma and its vicinity in a week, […]
Afghan women cricketers reunite in first game after fleeing Taliban | Cricket News
Afghanistan’s women cricketers have played their first game since fleeing their country after the Taliban’s takeover three years ago, coming together for a charity match […]
Passenger jet collides with helicopter at Reagan Airport near Washington | In Pictures News
An American Airlines passenger plane carrying 64 people has crashed into the Potomac River near Washington, DC after colliding midair with a military helicopter on […]
Passenger jet collides with helicopter at Reagan Airport near Washington | In Pictures News
An American Airlines passenger plane carrying 64 people has crashed into the Potomac River near Washington, DC after colliding midair with a military helicopter on […]
Chinese Lunar New Year starts as millions celebrate the Year of the Snake | Arts and Culture News
The Chinese New Year festivals and prayers have marked the start of the Year of the Snake. Hundreds lined up in the hours before midnight […]
Tyres burned, embassies attacked in DR Congo’s Kinshasa protests | Protests News
Vandalised embassies and piles of burning tyres marked chaotic demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa to denounce the “inaction” of the […]