Civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached record levels in the first half of 2021, the United Nations warned Monday, noting that deaths and injuries spiked markedly from May when the United States and its allies began withdrawing troops from the country. [...]

Tunisia political turmoil deepens as President sacks prime minister, freezes parliament

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday, prompting crowds to fill major cities in support of a move that dramatically escalated a political crisis, but that his opponents called a coup. [...]

A second crisis is killing survivors of India's worst Covid wave

Srinivas S. lies on a gurney in an operating theater in St John's Hospital in Bengaluru as surgeons carefully remove bits of blackened tissue and rotten bone from his face. [...]

UAE: Wife ordered to pay husband Dh8,100 for snooping on his phone

She was found guilty of causing marital discord between him and his first wife. [...]

Dubai to explore new, high-speed ropeway transport system

Self-propelled cabins will move over ropes at speeds of up to 45km/hr. [...]

Cloud-seeding: UAE yet to use drones to boost rainfall

Recent rains were part of the normal weather pattern during this time of the year, an official has said. [...]

Greece will start vaccinating 12-15 yr-olds in August

ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greece will open Covid-19 vaccinations to youngsters aged 12-15 in August, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told local television on Monday. Vaccination for this group has been approved and will be optional, he said. The program is expected to start on Friday. Maria Theodoridou, president of the country’s vaccination committee, stressed that there had been a significant rise in infections among children and adolescents recently. “The constant contamination of children is going […] [...]

Indonesia loosens Covid-19 curbs despite warnings of another wave

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Small shops, streetside restaurants and some shopping malls reopened in coronavirus-battered Indonesia on Monday after the government loosened a shutdown despite warnings it could unleash another Covid-19 wave. President Joko Widodo said Sunday that a partial lockdown imposed in early July would continue until August 2 even as the highly infectious Delta variant tears across the vast archipelago nation, which has overtaken India and Brazil to become the global pandemic epicentre. […] [...]

Tunisia president sacks defence minister amid political turmoil

Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the defence minister Monday, a day after ousting the prime minister and suspending parliament, plunging the young democracy into constitutional crisis in the midst of a pandemic. Street clashes erupted Monday outside the army-barricaded parliament, after Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and ordered parliament closed for 30 days, a move the biggest political party Ennahdha decried as a “coup”. Saied declared on Sunday that he had “taken the necessary […] [...]

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