World News in Brief: Dozens dead in Yemen shipwreck, Pakistan expulsions ‘must stop’, FAO aids Sudan farmers

World News in Brief: Dozens dead in Yemen shipwreck, Pakistan expulsions ‘must stop’, FAO aids Sudan farmers

More than 64 people are missing and feared dead after the vessel they were travelling in capsized on Sunday. Approximately 90 migrants, including 60 women, were on board the vessel, which was heading to Yemen from the coast of Djibouti. Twenty-six survivors were rescued by the Yemeni Coast Guard. Global cooperation needed  IOM is collaborating…

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First Person: UNICEF chief in Gaza bears witness to grave violations against children

First Person: UNICEF chief in Gaza bears witness to grave violations against children

Catherine Russell visited Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the besieged enclave on Wednesday. “Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement. Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn.  The parties to…

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Israel-Palestine crisis: UN emergency relief chief unveils 10-point plan ‘to rein in the carnage’

Israel-Palestine crisis: UN emergency relief chief unveils 10-point plan ‘to rein in the carnage’

The initiative from veteran aid chief Martin Griffiths, head of the UN aid coordination office OCHA, comes more than five weeks since Hamas militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and took around 240 hostages. The full-scale Israeli siege and assault that followed has levelled thousands of buildings in Gaza and reportedly claimed more than 11,000…

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K Electric's plants are rotten, that's why people in Karachi pay more bills, Industries Minister Sindh

K Electric’s plants are rotten, that’s why people in Karachi pay more bills, Industries Minister Sindh

Karachi: Caretaker Industries and Revenue Minister Younis Dagha has said that K Electric’s plants are very dilapidated due to which consumers of Karachi have to pay higher bills. Speaking at an event in Karachi, Younis Dagha said that a part of the price of electricity is fixed annually and a part is separately in the…

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Thousands of rural women are unemployed due to non-timber farming sector becoming inactive

Thousands of rural women are unemployed due to non-timber farming sector becoming inactive

Photo: Asif Mahmood Lahore: With non-timber farming sector inactive in Punjab, 4000 families related to sericulture, beekeeping, medicinal plants and mushroom farming, especially rural women, have become unemployed. 45-year-old Bashiran Bibi and 50-year-old Sughra Bibi, residents of Changa Manga area of ​​Kasur district, have been rearing silkworms in their home for the past two decades….

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Gaza: ‘Hospitals are not battlegrounds’, children’s suffering must stop, UN humanitarians say

Gaza: ‘Hospitals are not battlegrounds’, children’s suffering must stop, UN humanitarians say

Her comments came amid reports on Wednesday morning of an ongoing Israeli Defense Forces raid inside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, where patients including premature babies have died over the course of the past days after incubators and other life-saving equipment lost power. “Hospitals are not battlegrounds,” UN relief chief Martin Griffiths wrote on social platform…

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Abdul Razzaq apologized to Aishwarya Rai for the controversial statement

Abdul Razzaq apologized to Aishwarya Rai for the controversial statement

—File photo After realizing his mistake, former Pakistan cricketer Abdul Razzaq apologized to Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai for the controversial statement. Former cricketer Abdul Razzaq apologized to Indian actress Aishwarya Rai for his statement in a video statement and said that coaching and cricket were being discussed during the press conference and the language slipped…

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