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Byline: HIKMAT NOORI Afghan journalist reporting on the conflict, politics, development and culture in Afghanistan A year ago, 39-year-old Mohammad Rashid Anwari had it all: a successful business, a growing [...]

Byline: Hikmat Noori Hikmat Noori is an Afghan journalist reporting on the conflict, politics, development and culture in Afghanistan. Last week, in what was already a year of disbelief and [...]

Byline: HIKMAT NOORI Lead Afghan journalist reporting on the conflict, politics, development and culture in Afghanistan Less than 24 hours after the collapse of the Afghan government on Aug. 15, [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Quentin Aries The European Union is working on a plan to phase out the practice of raising farm animals in cages, a dramatic shift that [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Two are dead and at least 19 people are missing after a landslide caused by torrential rains tore through the Japanese city of Atami on Saturday. [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan A massive fire that broke out on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday has been extinguished, but the incident is raising questions about [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor and Antonia Noori Farzan Until this week, 'Canada's hot spot' might have seemed like a charming nickname for Lytton, B.C., a tiny town where summer temperatures soar. [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim and Antonia Noori Farzan ISTANBUL - Riot police in Istanbul used tear gas and rubber bullets to disrupt the annual Pride parade, intensifying a crackdown on the [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella, Caroline Anders, Antonia Noori Farzan, Kim Bellware and Meryl Kornfield Fire and smoke filling the enormous pile of rubble where first responders are searching for anyone who [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hassan and Antonia Noori Farzan LONDON - Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced his resignation Saturday after the Sun newspaper splashed a photograph on its front page of [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Pakistan's prime minister is facing protests and calls for a public apology after suggesting there would be fewer sexual assaults if women dressed more modestly. In [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan A video showing a Montreal police officer kneeling on the neck of a Black teen - nearly a year after the city called for a ban [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan El Salvador's plan to adopt bitcoin as legal tender hit a roadblock this week when the World Bank said that it would not help with the [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Three years ago, President Donald Trump ended his first formal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin with an announcement that shocked the world: He supported Putin's [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan New Zealand's plan to formally apologize for immigration raids in the 1970s that targeted Pacific Islanders is being hailed as a long-overdue gesture, though some activists [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Claire Parker The new governing coalition that took power Sunday in Israel is one of the oddest in recent memory: It unites ardent supporters of [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Quentin Aries British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took an unexpectedly sharp tone on Saturday after discussing post-Brexit rules for Northern Ireland with European Union leaders, [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Russian President Vladimir Putin laughed off the idea that he could be considered a 'killer,' but expressed a willingness to work with President Joe Biden in [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan There are few things more awkward than an uneven gift exchange. So when reports began circulating that President Joe Biden had given British Prime Minister Boris [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan When El Salvador voted this week to make bitcoin legal tender, it marked the start of an experiment sure to draw close attention amid a global [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan After a long day of discussing the world's most pressing problems at the Group of Seven summit on Saturday, leaders will relax around bonfires on the [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan, Miriam Berger and Adam Taylor This week, the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan will convene in England [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoýan pledged Tuesday to rid the Sea of Marmara of the 'scourge' of marine mucilage, as workers embarked on a massive effort [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan When world leaders gather at the G-7 summit in Cornwall, England this week, they'll be able to gaze out across the water and see their own [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Adam Taylor Law enforcement officials around the world announced Tuesday they had tricked hundreds of alleged criminals into using an encrypted messaging app called Anom, [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan An international sting that tricked alleged criminals into using an FBI-monitored messaging app has led to the arrests of more than 800 people internationally and is [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Antonia Noori Farzan The G-7 group of advanced economies announced an historic accord to set a minimum global corporate tax rate on Saturday, taking a first [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan A law passed by Denmark's Parliament on Thursday allows asylum seekers to be sent outside Europe to await the review of their applications. In Greece, high-tech [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan A heroic rat who discovered more than 70 land mines during five years of service in Cambodia is retiring this month. Magawa, a 6-year-old African pouched [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Early on the morning of May 24, Bryan Fenster woke up to a string of alarming text messages: His brother, Danny, had been detained at Myanmar's [...]

Byline: Katerina Ang and Antonia Noori Farzan Say goodbye to the 'Indian,' 'South African' and 'British' coronavirus variants. According to the World Health Organization, they're the Delta, Beta and Alpha [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan During his career in the Sicilian Mafia, Giovanni Brusca was known as the 'scannacristiani,' or 'people-slayer.' After he was arrested in 1996, the mobster confessed to [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan The discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in British Columbia prompted an outpouring of grief [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Austria's government is facing backlash for launching an 'Islam Map' website that shows the locations of more than 600 mosques and Muslim associations across the country. [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan In December, hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona arena to dance and sing along to five hours of live music and D.J. sets, gleefully abandoning [...]

Byline: Julia Mio Inuma and Antonia Noori Farzan The chairman of the Japan Doctors Union, a lead critic of the holding of the Olympic Games amid the pandemic, warned Thursday [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Barely a month old, the newborn Tasmanian devils discovered in an Australian wildlife preserve this week resemble tiny shrimp. But conservationists hope that the joeys will [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan For months, Turkish fishermen in the Sea of Marmara have been running into a problem: They can't catch fish. That's because a thick, viscous substance known [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan A video purporting to show dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich confessing to organizing 'mass riots' has met with skepticism from scholars, family members and human rights [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Gaza Strip residents took to the streets in celebration Friday - or to let out a sigh of relief - as a cease-fire with Israel brought [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham and Antonia Noori Farzan As a cease fire between Israel and Hamas Thursday night quieted the skies over the Gaza Strip and nearby Israeli cities, both sides [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Book a three-night hotel stay in the European microstate of San Marino, and your room could come with a bonus amenity: A coronavirus vaccine. The landlocked [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger and Antonia Noori Farzan JERUSALEM - Violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip shows no sign of ceasing despite growing international calls for a cease-fire. The mounting [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan As Israel began a campaign of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip last week - which have since left more than 200 people dead, according to local [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Darwin's Arch, an iconic rock formation that for years was a much-photographed destination for tourists visiting the Galápagos Islands, is no longer an arch. Two rock [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan More than 6,000 migrants have swum or waded from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in recent days, ratcheting up tensions and prompting Spain to [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan, Ruby Mellen, Laris Karklis and Júlia Ledur As a new round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians spirals toward all-out war, the death toll has grown [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Loveday Morris The Israeli military attack Saturday on a Gaza Strip high-rise housing the offices of media outlets including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan China successfully landed a rover-carrying spacecraft on Mars for the first time, state-run media reported Saturday, marking another major victory for the country's ambitious space program [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Hundreds of residents of Glasgow, Scotland, poured into the streets Thursday morning to block the path of a van that held two men detained in an [...]