Somalia: Samira Abdi anxiously watches her 6-year-old son as a nurse carefully weighs him at the feeding centre of the Melkadida refugee camp in the eastern part of Ethiopia's Somali region. Samira took her children there as they had been suffering from stomach pains for weeks. However, he knows very well what is actually tormenting them: hunger.
Lebanon has deported around 50 Syrians in the last two weeks, sending them to a war-torn country as anti-Syrian sentiment worsened due to the economic crisis, sources said today.
Jammu and Kashmir: The state election commission of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to enrol Kashmiri migrant pandits who are currently living in various parts of India as voters. The government has established teams to carry out this process, which includes those who had to leave the Kashmir valley due to unfavourable circumstances and are officially recognized as migrants living in Jammu and other parts of the nation.
Islamabad: According to the latest "World Economic Outlook" report released by the International Monetary Fund, Pakistan's GDP growth rate projection for the current fiscal year 2023 has been revised downwards from two percent to 0.5 percent.
Italy: Meloni government hopes the state of emergency will help manage flows - Around 1,000 refugees have arrived in Lampedusa in 24 hours. By declaring a state of emergency, the Italian far-right government is "responding" to the continuous immigration and refugee flows, expecting that in this way, it will manage to regulate the situation.
