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Paramilitary attack in Sudan: 53 killed, including children and women; refugee shelter bombed in Darfur city

At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, were killed when Sudanese paramilitary forces launched an assault on a shelter in a surrounded Darfur city, according to a medical organisation’s report on Saturday.The Sudan Doctors’ Network, quoted by AP, reported that the bombardment of el-Fasher also resulted in injuries to 21 people, including […]

‘Sinister’: Indian man sentenced to 5.5 months in jail in Canada for spying on women through a peephole, won’t be deported as…

Indian-origin man spared of immigration consequences after spying on women through bathroom peephole. An Indian national in Canada, Aswin V Sajeevan, has been sentenced to 5.5 months of jail for spying on his female housemates through a peephole of the bathroom and making videos, the National Post reported. Justice Craig A Brannagan did not give […]

FM seeks to broaden NPS coverage: Move to rope in gig workers; consultations on | India News

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: While pitching National Pension System as an attractive investment option, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday sought broadening its coverage, with a special focus on gig and platform workers & women, and suggested that its best get subscribers when they are young so that the full impact […]

‘If women can make it’: Pete Hegseth calls for ‘gender-neutral’ fitness rules; signals fewer women in combat roles | World News

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth (Pic credit: AP) US defense secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday announced new directives for the military, including implementing gender-neutral physical fitness standards and eliminating what he described as “woke” culture from the armed forces. The announcement came during an in-person meeting with military officials at the Marine Corps base in […]

Migrant crisis: Two women die while crossing English Channel; 17 lost in similar attempts

Two women lost their lives on Saturday while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the UK on a makeshift boat carrying other migrants, French officials said. Rescuers found the women in cardiac arrest but were unable to save them. A couple and their child suffering from hypothermia were taken to a hospital […]

Watch: ICE officer shoves women to floor at immigration courthouse; agency says ‘relieved from current duties’

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shoved a woman into a wall and then pushed her to the ground at a New York City immigration courthouse has been “relieved of his current duties,” an ICE official said Friday, CNN reported.The incident, captured on video Thursday, has drawn widespread outrage as families across the United […]

Who is ‘La Diabla’? Woman harvest organs from pregnant women and sell newborns to US couples for $14,000 each | World News

Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, known as “La Diabla,” a high-ranking member of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was arrested on 2 September 2025 in Ciudad Juárez during a joint US-Mexican operation. She is accused of running a horrific trafficking ring targeting impoverished pregnant women, luring them to remote locations under false pretences, and performing […]

Israeli strikes hit refugee camps: Over 80 killed in Gaza; 20 women and children among dead

Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza Strip as they walk carrying their belongings along the coastal road, near Wadi Gaza Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday left more than 80 Palestinians dead, in one of the heaviest tolls reported in recent weeks, as per BBC. Hospitals in Gaza City said most of the victims were in […]

Taliban bans books by Women in Afghanistan’s universities

Image used for representative purposes The Taliban government is purging books written by women from Afghanistan’s male-only university system and outlawing gender studies courses, the latest blows in a campaign against women’s rights since the group returned to power four years ago.More than 600 books, many of them written by women, were included in a […]

Three French women accused of IS links go on trial

Three French women including a niece of notorious jihadist propagandists went on trial on Monday, accused of travelling to the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and taking their eight children with them.One of the women is Jennyfer Clain, a 34-year-old niece of Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, who claimed responsibility on behalf of […]