For Shukria Barakzai, 15 August seemed, at first, an unremarkable Sunday morning. A prominent journalist and politician, a former member of the Afghan parliament and ambassador to Norway, she was a frequent traveller. She already had a few bags packed, as she was due to fly to Turkey later that […]
Day: August 27, 2021
A selection of powerful images from all over the globe, taken this week. Source link
The Taliban maintain a sophisticated financial network and taxation system to generate income. Source link
A couple who 30 years ago bought an abused chimpanzee are now trying to save a subspecies. Source link
Mr Dreze and the three other economists he is working with plan to survey some 1,500 children in eight other states – Assam, Maharashtra, Odisha (formerly Orissa), Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Volunteers will go door-to-door interviewing children between five and 14 years to assess their literacy […]
Stories you may have missed this week include Russian army games and a WWII bunker turned into a B&B. Source link
British swimmer Dan Pepper had always dreamed of competing at the Paralympic Games but the opportunity was taken from him, he says, when a ban was imposed on intellectual impairment sports in the Paralympics. The ban came into force after a huge scandal at Sydney 2000, when the Spanish basketball […]
Shein said it did not fund or approve adverts that suggested some ethnic minorities need not apply. Source link
“Senator Kennedy was the hope of the world and I injured, and I harmed all of them and it pains me to experience that, the knowledge for such a horrible deed,” he added according to the Associated Press, the only news agency that was allowed to attend his parole hearing. […]
During two decades of war, the United States had employed thousands of Afghans to help US troops, diplomats and aid workers. While some have arrived in the US on Special Immigration Visas, their families have stayed behind. The BBC spoke to Afghans who worked for the US military during the […]