A study of 191 countries has found that widespread reopening of schools after lockdowns and vacations is generally not linked to rising COVID-19 rates and that lockdown closures will leave a 2020 “pandemic learning debt” of 300 billion missed school days. The analysis, by the Geneva-based independent educational foundation Insights for Education (IfE), said 84% مزید پڑھیں

Labour members of the UK parliament including Shabana Mahmood, Naz Shah, Sam Tarry and Rachel Hopkins have joined the Labour Friends of Kashmir Executive at the inaugural meeting of the Labour Friends of Kashmir Parliamentary Liaison Committee. The organisation chair Andrew Gwynne MP announced the appointments of the Labour MPs. At least 20 MPS attended مزید پڑھیں

US President Donald Trump scrambled on Wednesday to quell an uproar over his failure to explicitly denounce white supremacist groups during his debate debacle with Joe Biden, who branded his election rival a “national embarrassment”. The bitter adversaries returned to the campaign trail one day after their off-the-rails showdown in Cleveland made headlines less for مزید پڑھیں

Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was on Wednesday sworn in as Kuwait’s new emir after the death of his half-brother, the late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who died in the US at the age of 91. Sheikh Nawaf was visibly emotional as he addressed the National Assembly a day after the death of the emir, مزید پڑھیں

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted Hindu nationalist leaders, including former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani, in a case over the demolition of a mosque at a disputed site 28 years ago, citing a lack of evidence. The demolition sparked nationwide riots that killed more than 3,000 people in a decades-long dispute that has مزید پڑھیں

Azerbaijan on Wednesday vowed to pursue military action against Armenian separatists in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region until a full Armenian withdrawal from the disputed territory. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse مزید پڑھیں

Former US Vice President and Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden on Tuesday night took on incumbent President Donald Trump in the first debate and used the word “Inshallah”. Apart from its original meaning of ‘If God wills it’, the phrase ‘Inshallah’ is also often used sarcastically by Muslims when they are talking about something مزید پڑھیں

Turkish prosecutors have indicted six new Saudis suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, local media reported on Monday. Istanbul prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for two of the suspects and up to five years in jail for the remaining four, the official Anadolu news agency reported. The Washington Post مزید پڑھیں

After a bolt-from-the-blue tax revelation report, President Donald Trump took a defensive mode on the evening of his first televised debate against Joe Biden on Monday. The recent tax bombshell showed he has been avoiding paying almost any federal income tax for years. The scoop from The New York Times, reporting that Trump paid only مزید پڑھیں

Azerbaijani and Armenian forces battled for a second day on Monday after dozens were killed in an outbreak of heavy fighting that has raised fears of an all-out war between the longtime enemies. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a territorial dispute over the ethnic Armenian region of Nagorny Karabakh for decades, with deadly مزید پڑھیں