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KABUL (BNA) In a recent announcement, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Affairs confirmed the voluntary and forced return of more than two thousand Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan to their home country.

Palestinian emergency workers continue to uncover mass graves in and around three hospitals in the Gaza Strip, months after Israeli forces laid siege to them, claiming they were being used as Hamas command centres.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei toured the 35th edition of the Tehran International Book Fair on Monday morning.

Today I’m celebrating Mother’s Day as a working mom of two young children—a toddler and a 5-month-old baby. It’s a rare chance when your personal life so closely connects to your research, and I feel it’s a privilege to both study and walk in the shoes of women who must navigate the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 219th day, has killed at least 34,971 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,641.

Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by.

Japan Airlines Co.'s newly appointed top executive Mitsuko Tottori said she will press ahead with diversity in its workplace and businesses, as she looks to devise the carrier's post-COVID growth strategy as its first female CEO.

While students continue to protest in the United States and other Western countries about the Israeli war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, silence reigns at Egypt’s universities for the eighth month in a row. This has left many question marks about the dormant student movement in a country that is the most populous in the Arab region and in direct contact with the Palestinian cause.

In the summer of 2022, more than 1 million of square feet of roads in L.A’s Pacoima neighborhood were covered with solar reflective paint. Schoolyards, basketball courts, and parking lots were also painted, some with colorful patterns by a local artist. As we reported back then, the results were immediate and the paint reduced the surface temperature by about 10° Farhenheit. A year and a half in, the results are even more compelling.

Tunisia’s sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants describe being victims of vilification and kidnapping nationwide.