DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem went on strike on Monday to protest Israeli attempts to impose textbooks that attempt to wipe out Palestinian national identity. The one-day strike was staged in response to a call by a coalition of national and Islamic factions in the city. “We reject Israel’s attempt...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – At least 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia this year, the UN Children’s Fund said on Tuesday, warning of a famine in the coming months. “Malnutrition has reached crisis levels – 1.5 million children, nearly half of the under-five population, are likely to have acute malnutrition,’’...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Some 22,500 children died from air pollution in Nigeria’s most populous southwestern state of Lagos in 2021, according to environmental authorities. The figures were revealed by Dolapo Fasawe, head of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), on the sidelines of the opening ceremony for the ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An 11-year-old Palestinian girl and her brother, who have been injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, left the territory on Wednesday for treatment in Türkiye. The trip of the Palestinian children accompanied by their parents, has been organized upon instructions from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Depriving girls of secondary education caused a loss of at least $500 million to the Afghan economy in the last 12 months, according to an analysis by the UN’s children fund. UNICEF said keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5% of its annual GDP. “If the current cohort of three […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has finally acknowledged the killing of five Palestinian children in an aerial raid during the recent three-day offensive on the Gaza Strip. Defense Ministry officials confirmed Israel’s responsibility in the tragic incident, which occurred on August 7 in a cemetery in the Jabaliya area, northern Gaza, leadi...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Around 20 years ago, Mohammad Nassar, 62, lost his son, Shadi, who was participating in resistance activities against the Israeli occupation during the second Palestinian intifada. Nassar has since been in a constant struggle to retrieve Shadi’s body from Israeli authorities. “I want to bury him with full dignity...
TAIZ, YEMEN (AA): A mortar shell fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saturday injured 11 children in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Taiz Police stated that the Houthis carried out the mortar attack on Taiz’s Zeid al-Mushki District. The statement added that the children, mostly under the age of 10, were seriously and […]
PARIS (AA) – France’s attorney general at the Court of Cassation has underlined the principle of “state obligation” to bring back all French nationals living in camps in Syria. “We have to bring all of them back,” Francois Molins told RTL radio. This came days after the government, in a major policy shift, set aside […]
