U.N. to review presence in Afghanistan after Taliban bars women workers
Distribution of desperately needed food and medical aid has been impeded by the Taliban edict banning women from working at international organizations.
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Distribution of desperately needed food and medical aid has been impeded by the Taliban edict banning women from working at international organizations.
Griner will describe "her stark and surreal time living in a foreign prison and the terrifying aspects of day-to-day life in a women's penal colony," her publisher said.
The previous record was set by Dubai's 1 license plate, which was sold for about $14.2 million in 2008.
Figueroa's mother, fellow singer Maribel Guardia, announced his death. His father was late singer Joan Sebastian, and he followed in both of his parents' footsteps as an entertainer.
The terror threat level has been raised from "substantial" to "severe," as old sources of discord resurface.
Many residents in the coastal town of Ballina fondly recall previous visits by the now-U.S. president. For some, he's family.
A former U.S. national security official says China's C919 "looks like a knockoff."
Coco has required "round the clock" care and had to be sedated for a month at a shelter in England to get through his withdrawal symptoms.
Tens of thousands of increasingly frustrated migrants are vying for a limited number of spots to enter the U.S.
The State Department has formally determined that a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia on espionage charges has been "wrongfully detained."
CBS News meets Taiwanese who are used to threats, but wary of tension mounting between global superpowers over their island's fate.
"If Kupyansk will be taken by our enemy again, it won't be just an occupation," said an emergency manager in the rail transport hub.
Video of the public encounter shows Tibet's 87-year-old spiritual leader planting a kiss on a boy's lips as he leans in to pay respects, drawing outrage online.
It was one of the country's deadliest avalanches in years.
By the end of the pope's appearance, some 100,00 people had flocked to the square in time for the pontiff's speech, according to the Vatican's crowd count.