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India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate

Sep 28, 2018

India's Supreme Court has lifted a temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender

Autopsy on Egyptian monk shows signs of poisoning

Sep 27, 2018

Autopsy on Egyptian monk who had until recently served at monastery where the abbot was killed shows signs of poisoning

UN rushes aid to hunger-stricken Yemeni district

Sep 25, 2018

UN, donors rush food to desperate corner of northern Yemen where starving villagers were living off leaves

Pakistan official: Gunmen kill policeman guarding polio team

Sep 25, 2018

Pakistani official: Gunmen kill policeman assigned to protect polio workers in country's northwest

Isolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine

Sep 14, 2018

Yemenis in an isolated pocket in the north have been reduced to eating boiled leaves from a local vine to stave off starvation, with no aid reaching many families who need it most

Dozens of high fever deaths cause panic in northern India

Sep 13, 2018

Indian health authorities are rushing medical supplies to some north Indian towns and villages where at least 50 people have died from fever over the past two weeks

Egypt says e.coli caused the death of 2 British tourists

Sep 12, 2018

Egypt's chief prosecutor says tests showed that e.coli bacteria were behind the death of two British tourists in a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada

3 dead from drinking bootleg booze in Iran

Sep 12, 2018

Iranian media report at least three men have died after drinking bootleg alcohol in northern Iran

Egypt says poison gas leak not behind death of 2 Britons

Aug 26, 2018

Egypt's top prosecutor has dismissed speculation that the death of two British tourists in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada was caused by poisonous gas emissions in their hotel room

'Most ancient' solid cheese found in dug up Egyptian jar

Aug 17, 2018

Scientists have discovered that a solidified whitish substance in an ancient jar dug up in Egypt is "probably the most ancient archaeological solid residue of cheese ever found."