It has been one week since U.S. border officials denied entry to a 17-year-old Harvard freshman just days before classes were set to begin. Ismail Ajjawi, a Palestinian student living… Read more »
India’s Muslim-majority state, with phones and internet blocked, cannot tell the world what is happening There were signs that travel restrictions in Indian-administered Kashmir were partly relaxed on Saturday in… Read more »
US reported to have had a hand in death of heir to al-Qaida ‘sometime in past two years’ Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, who was trying to lead an al-Qaida… Read more »
First official statistics for Great Britain also reveal London has largest ethnic pay gap Workers of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage have the lowest median hourly pay of any ethnic group,… Read more »
Visa decision overturned for British resident Nina Saleh, 48 hours after Guardian and others published her story A woman who was refused a visa to return to London after travelling… Read more »
Ice losses indicate ‘devastating’ future for region and 1 billion people who depend on it for water The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the turn of the century,… Read more »
British resident Nina Saleh unable to return home with adopted baby after being refused visa three times A Norwegian woman who has lived in Britain for 20 years says she… Read more »
After months and months of rumors it’s finally been confirmed that ride-hailing giant Uber is picking up its Middle East rival Careem in an acquisition deal worth $3.1 billion —… Read more »
Beatrice Fihn Contributor Share on Twitter Beatrice Fihn is the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. “Atomic… Read more »
Men went missing almost a fortnight ago while ascending mountain in Pakistan The bodies of Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi, the British and Italian climbers who went missing a fortnight… Read more »
Ballard and his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi had been climbing Naga Parbat A search for a British climber missing on the world’s ninth-highest mountain is poised to resume after… Read more »
Attack an act of ‘extreme valour’, says minister, after first clash of its kind since the countries went to war in 1971 India has carried out aerial bombing over the… Read more »
Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt… Read more »
Christian woman who spent eight years on death row now free to leave country Pakistan’s top court has upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death… Read more »
There’s worrying news from China’s online media world as ByteDance, the $75 billion company behind popular video app TikTok is taking a news site to court for alleged defamation after… Read more »
Pakistan government accused of signing death warrant by blocking Christian woman from leaving the country The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted on charges of blasphemy has begged Theresa… Read more »
Administration accused of signing Bibi’s ‘death warrant’ in deal with hardliners Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin… Read more »
Christian woman to be freed after being sentenced in 2010, accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad Pakistan’s supreme court has struck down the death sentence for blasphemy handed down to… Read more »