Afghanistan's Zakia Khudadadi enters the arena during her women's K44 49kg Taekwondo match against

ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy — When the Taliban took Kabul in August, Zakia was six months pregnant and

VATICAN CITY( Reuters)-The Muslim widow of the Italian ambassador killed last year in Democratic Republic of Congo broke into tears on Wednesday as she told Pope Francis of her Catholic husband's commitment to help African children. Luca Attanasio, his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Mustapha Milambo were killed during a botched kidnapping on a road in eastern Congo as they were heading to visit a United Nations humanitarian project at a school.He became a national hero in Italy, l

. Zakia Khudadadi, a Taekwondo athlete, and track athlete Hossain Rasouli were evacuated from the

Afghanistan's Paralympic chef de mission Arian Sadiqi.... Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, Parsons said the IPC has been in contact with Afghanistan's national Paralympic committee and the chef de mission, who has called for support from organizers of the games starting next week.... " We are assessing the situation and so far we believe that at the moment, we don't have a way to bring the Afghani athletes to Tokyo in a safe way for them, in a way that will preserve their safety," Pars

Afghanistan's Hossain Rasouli gestures after his first jump as he competes in the men's T47 long jump during the 2020 Paralympics at Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, on Aug.... Khudadadi and Rasouli arrived in Tokyo on Saturday after a global operation successfully evacuated the pair from the capital Kabul, which is now under Taliban control.... Craig Foster, the former captain of the Australian national soccer team and refugee advocate who was involved in the rescue, told Australia's Nine New

Afghanistan's Hossain Rasouli competes in the men's T47 long jump at the 2020 Paralympics on Aug.... They arrived a week late, and since then the two-person team have been sequestered in the Paralympic Village for privacy and safety reasons.... They have also declined to speak to the media, before or after events....

Join our Whatsapp channel LAHORE: As the Punjab Assembly continued the debate on smog and water scarcity issues in the province for the third day here on Friday, members from treasury as well opposition suggested curbs on industrial and vehicular emissions, besides strict implementation of laws to check environmental pollution. Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan assured the members that their suggestions would be shared with the agriculture, irrigation and other relevant departments. Questioning

The students began protesting outside the school gate and sat huddled in a group, reading their lessons.... It will hear petitions filed by the protesting students on Tuesday and rule on whether to overturn the ban. But the uneasy standoff has raised fears among the state's Muslim students who say they are being deprived of their religious rights.... The decree is discriminatory and it disproportionately affects Muslim women," said A.H. Almas, an 18-year-old student who has been part of the we

Three women were diagnosed with HIV after getting “ vampire facial ” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report last week, marking the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through cosmetic services using needles. Federal health officials said in a new report that an investigation from 2018 through 2023 into the clinic in Albuquerque, VIP Spa, found it apparently reused disposable equipment intended for one