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International banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanctions on the Taliban, the United States said on..
An Egyptian woman has been arrested for torturing her husband by tying him to the bed and pouring boiling water on his body, local media reported. The 34-year-old woman tied her husband to the bed while he was sleeping and then poured boiling wate..
The husband also slapped the woman, causing a hearing impairment A criminal court in the UAE has sentenced a 25-year-old Asian woman to six months in prison, followed by deportation, for breaking her husband's fingers after learning about his ..
Unvaccinated people infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus may be less prone to severe illness and requiring hospital care or dying than was the case with previous variants, a South African study showed on Friday. The study, by the Natio..
An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times Thursday in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes. Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of general investigation division at East Aceh p..
Earlier this year, Raja and Priti Narasimhan kicked off a road trip across India armed with one message: stop spitting in public. The couple carried a loudspeaker and blared their message from inside a car covered in anti-spitting slogans. If you ..
Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have arrested a teenager suspected of beheading his pregnant older sister, BB reported. The woman, 19, had married a man without her family's consent, local police officials said. She was ma..
Recycling will not be able to contain a runaway global plastic waste crisis, experts said on Friday as they called on companies to reduce plastic production and shift more products into reusable and refillable packaging. Moving away from single-us..
Walt Disney has elected a woman to become its chairman for the first time in the entertainment giant's 98-year history. Susan Arnold, who has been a Disney board member for 14 years, will succeed Bob Iger at the end of this year. She was fo..