For 18 months, Alia has been waiting in a transit camp in Qatar for her promised resettlement to the US.

But now that route appears to have closed for good. Where she and hundreds of other Afghan evacuees will end up next is unknown.

Going back home to Afghanistan is not an option. It is too dangerous

India's youth story is a study in contradictions - of abundance and scarcity, promise and drift.

As the British economist Joan Robinson once quipped, whatever "you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true".

Few studies illustrate that paradox more crisply than the latest State of Working India by Azim Premji University.

Start with the headline number

The hugely popular Labubu dolls will soon star in their own feature film, Chinese toy company Pop Mart and Sony Pictures have announced.

A Labubu movie that will combine live action and computer-generated animation is in "early development", the two companies said in a statement.

The film will be directed by Paul King, whose credits include Wonka, Paddington and BBC comedy series The Mighty Boosh. No release date has been set.

China has long braced for a Gulf oil supply shock - but the Iran war's disruption of a key global shipping route is now putting its resilience to the test.

Energy shipments from the Middle East have been at a standstill following Iran's threats to attack vessels that pass through a critical trade waterway as retaliation against US-Israeli strikes.

The blockade has led to a global oil shortage which has rocked Gulf-reliant Asian countries hard - with the Philippines mandating four-day work

Alberta has proposed a bill that would limit the use of medically assisted dying - also known as voluntary euthanasia - in the Canadian province solely to end-of-life circumstances.

In 2021, Canada expanded access to medically assisted dying, known domestically by the acronym Maid, to people with serious, incurable illnesses or disabilities, even if their death is not reasonably foreseeable.

Canada is also due to expand access next

The leader of one of Ecuador's biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been arrested in Mexico City, officials say.

Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales - better known by the alias Lobo Menor - was wanted in connection with the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, Ecuador's interior minister John Reimberg, said.

He added that Anguilar had obtained papers using a fake Colombian

The top intelligence official in the US said on Wednesday that the Iranian regime was "intact" but "largely degraded".

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and other top Trump administration officials testified at a congressional hearing for more than two hours about worldwide threats to the US.

It was the first public briefing on intelligence since the war began in late February and came one day after a top counterterrorism leader resigned saying Iran had not posed an imminent threat to the US.

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The US central bank has voted to hold interest rates steady again, as a spike in oil prices since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran raises economic uncertainty and threatens to drive up inflation.

The decision, which was widely expected, left the Federal Reserve's key interest rate in the range of 3.5%-3.75%, where it has stood since December.

Despite pressure from US President Donald Trump to slash borrowing costs, policymakers