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India probes flight plunge as pilot faces drug test scrutiny

News August 11, 2026

Indian investigators are examining evidence linked to an Air India flight that plunged sharply mid-air last week, authorities said on Tuesday, as local media reported the pilot had tested positive for...

Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death in absentia

News August 11, 2026

A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him over charges of β€œwar crimes” and β€œcrimes against humanity” during the country’s ci...

'I hide to cry': Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education

News August 11, 2026

Father after father AFP spoke to in Afghanistan about the education ban that stops their daughters from going beyond primary school choked up in despair. The pain and anguish it is causing behind clos...

Trump says would be 'terrible mistake' to oust embattled FIFA president Infantino

News August 11, 2026

US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be β€œa terrible mistake” to replace Gianni Infantino, the embattled FIFA president who tried, and failed, to sell off part of the World Cup to priv...

Bangladesh, India scramble to save white-ball series

Sports August 11, 2026

Bangladesh is scrambling to save a six-match cricket tour by neighbour India next month, with the foreign ministers of both nations roped in to try to salvage the series. Comprising three one-day inte...

Europe braces for another summer heatwave

News August 10, 2026

Much of Europe is bracing for yet another heatwave following periods of scorching temperatures that have driven rivers to record lows, ignited historic forest fires and contributed to thousands of dea...

Three football confederations rebuke Infantino, say sport β€˜belongs to no individual’

News August 10, 2026

FIFA President Gianni Infantino came under renewed fire on Monday as a joint letter from three confederations β€” European football’s governing body UEFA, Confederations of North America, Central Am...

Afghanistan's gold rush upends lives, landscapes in northeastern Badakhshan province

News August 10, 2026

In Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. Thousands of miners ...

Indian students step up exam protests in Jharkhand, march towards state assembly

News August 10, 2026

Indian students marched towards the state assembly in Jharkhand on Monday, escalating protests over alleged irregularities in government recruitment examinations, with several students also on hunger ...

'Work is work, it has to be done': Brickmakers in Pakistan scorched by sun above and fire below

Health August 10, 2026

As dark plumes billow from overhead smokestacks, brickmakers at a kiln in Sheikhupura district crush coal through small holes beneath their feet into the fiery chambers below. Workers already have to ...