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PSL T20 tournament postponed after 7 COVID-19 positive tests
Mar 4, 2021

PSL T20 tournament postponed after 7 COVID-19 positive tests

The Pakistan Super League has been postponed indefinitely after six players and a support staffer were tested positive for COVID-19



Bangladesh High Court grants bail to imprisoned cartoonist
Mar 3, 2021

Bangladesh High Court grants bail to imprisoned cartoonist

Bangladesh’s High Court has granted bail to a cartoonist who has been held for 10 months of pre-trial detention under a controversial digital security law that critics say stifles freedom of expression


Mar 2, 2021

Groups: Yemen aid shortfall means more hunger, less care

Aid organizations working in Yemen say their programs will be severely cut


UN chief: Appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7B
Mar 2, 2021

UN chief: Appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7B

A United Nations appeal for aid to Yemen to alleviate the world’s worst humanitarian disaster raised some $1_7 billion — a result the U_N_ chief called “disappointing.”


Mar 1, 2021

PSL game postponed after Ahmed tests positive for COVID-19

A Pakistan Super League game has been postponed after Australian legspinner Fawad Ahmed tested positive for COVID-19 and was put in isolation


UN launches donor conference amid fears of famine in Yemen
Mar 1, 2021

UN launches donor conference amid fears of famine in Yemen

The United Nations has launched an appeal for countries to fund its response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where more than six years of war has created the world’s worst humanitarian disaster


UN warns of mass famine in Yemen ahead of donor conference
Feb 28, 2021

UN warns of mass famine in Yemen ahead of donor conference

A U.N. humanitarian agency has warned that more than 16 million people in Yemen would go hungry this year, with already some half a million living in famine-like condition in the conflict-wrecked country



In oil-rich Iraq, a few women buck norms, take rig site jobs
Feb 28, 2021

In oil-rich Iraq, a few women buck norms, take rig site jobs

In Iraq, a handful of women are eschewing the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petrochemical engineers and choosing instead to become trailblazers in the country’s oil industry by taking up the grueling work at rig sites across the country