Azadeh MoshiriPakistan Correspondent
BBCRescuers and relatives searched knee-deep in water for the body of one-year-old Zara. She’d been swept…
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How climate change is worsening Pakistan’s deadly floods
BBCFloods have swept across Pakistan, hitting urban and rural areas, including the capital of Punjab, Lahore -
Tourism to Xinjiang booms as China gives the region a makeover
Getty ImagesIn 2024, Xinjiang welcomed some 300 million visitors, more than double the number in 2018 When Anna was planning her first visit to Xinjiang in 2015, her friends were perplexed.
“They couldn’t understand why I’d visit a place that back…
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Tourism to Xinjiang booms as China gives the region a makeover
Getty ImagesIn 2024, Xinjiang welcomed some 300 million visitors, more than double the number in 2018 When Anna was planning her first visit to Xinjiang in 2015, her friends were perplexed.
“They couldn’t understand why I’d visit a place that back…
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Shein accused of selling childlike sex dolls in France
France’s consumer watchdog has reported the Asian fast fashion giant Shein to authorities for selling “sex dolls with a childlike appearance” on its website.
The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF)…
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Multiple people stabbed on train in Huntingdon England
Two people have been arrested after a number of people were stabbed on a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday, police said.
Officers from British Transport Police (BTP)…
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Kenyan landslide kills 21 after heavy rainfall
The Kenyan government has confirmed that 21 people have died following a landslide in the western part of the country after heavy rainfall.
Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said the bodies had been transferred to a nearby airstrip after the…
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US envoy calls Lebanon a ‘failed state’ as Syria expected to join anti-IS coalition
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S.’s special envoy for Syria on Saturday called Lebanon “a failed state” in remarks underscoring Washington’s frustration with Beirut’s “paralyzed government,” even as
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