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KABUL, Afghanistan: Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday (Jun 4). It is thought to be the first time this kind of…

Last Updated: June 05, 2023, 01:34 ISTSince toppling the Western-backed government in Kabul, the Taliban have tightened controls over women's access to public life, including barring women from university and closing most girls' high…

Issued on: 20/05/2023 - 14:58 From our special correspondent in Cannes – A young girl’s experience of puberty gets the body-horror treatment in Amanda Nell Eu’s playfully…

<!-- -->The girls were treated after suffering shortness of breath, in Tabriz. (Representational)Tehran: Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalised on Tuesday after the latest in a mysterious wave of poisoning attacks that have…

Issued on: 28/03/2023 - 08:49 The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother…

Last Updated: March 12, 2023, 16:17 ISTState media reported late Saturday that the interior ministry had announced the arrests over the suspected poison attacks in more than 200 schools. (Photo Credit: Reuters) State media reported late…

DUBAI: Iran's supreme leader said on Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools is proven to be deliberate, the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an 'unforgivable crime'.It was the first time…

Issued on: 07/03/2023 - 01:38 The White House said Monday an investigation into the recent poisoning of school girls in protest-hit Iran could fall under the mandate of…

Issued on: 06/03/2023 - 11:11 Iran's supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should…

Last Updated: March 05, 2023, 20:30 ISTA woman cuts her hair during a demonstration in support of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who died following her arrest by the country's morality police, outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in…