NEW DELHI: The capital’s air quality continued to deteriorate for the fourth day running, with the city’s average AQI inching closer to ‘severe’ levels on Sunday. The day’s average air quality index was recorded at 370,…
Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). The figure includes people who have been…
Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent
Family handoutOne year since Harshita Brella was strangled to death in the UK, there is a sense of…
Parham GhobadiBBC Persian
EPAIran – especially its capital, Tehran – is facing an unprecedented drought this autumn, with rainfall at record lows and reservoirs nearly empty. Officials are pleading with citizens to conserve water as the crisis…
As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival.
The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 miles, perform precision attacks against…
Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent combat….
Four inmates died and more than 30 others were injured Sunday when a riot broke out at a prison in Ecuador, corrections officials in the South American country said.
The riot stemmed from the “reorganization of inmates” to…
The body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed and abducted by Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War, was returned to Israel on Sunday after more than 11 years in captivity, the military announced, confirming forensic identification.
Israel Defense Forces…