Health
Facial recognition wielded in India to enforce COVID policy
India's city of Hyderabad has become a hotbed of surveillance technology, with a reach that only expanded during the pandemic
India Health
3 dead as bomber hits Pakistan police protecting polio teams
Officials say a suicide bomber has killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others in an attack on a truck carrying police officers tasked with protecting polio workers near Quetta
In Egypt, host of COP27, a small step toward green energy
The Arab world’s most populous country is taking steps to convert to renewable energy
Egypt puts activist on hunger strike on medical treatment
Family members say Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with imprisoned pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated his hunger strike to refuse water
Sudan official: Deaths from southern tribal clashes at 220
A senior health official says two days of tribal fighting in Sudan’s south has killed at least 220 people, marking one the deadliest bouts of tribal violence in recent years
India stops journalist from flying to receive Pulitzer Prize
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist says Indian immigration authorities prevented her from flying to the United States to receive the award
India Dengue
'A time bomb': Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests
Anger among civilians is rising in a majority Kurdish district in northwestern Iran that has become one of the hotspots of protests
India's top court gives equal abortion access to all women
India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies