Pope Francis greets a child as he leaves after the weekly general audience at the Vatican, November 23, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Francis on November 23 linked the suffering of Ukrainians now to the 1930s “genocide artificially caused by Stalin,” when the Soviet leader was blamed for creating a man-made famine in the … Read more
Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia – one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons. With Somalia in the grips of its worst drought in 40 years, “people became weak because of hunger, so we had to flee for our lives,” … Read more
Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR Mass demonstrations happening in Iran were sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa “Jina” Amini, in a Tehran hospital on Sept. 16, two days after her arrest by Islamic Republic authorities for failing to properly cover her hair. Hijab is mandatory in Iran and is enforced … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Reuters Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan Article content ISLAMABAD/KARACHI — Pakistan’s armed forces rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, while the country’s best-known charity warned that only a small fraction of millions affected by the floods had been … Read more