NEW DELHI: Four children of Nirvana Sansthan, where destitute mentally-challenged boys and girls are given shelter, died due to suspected food poisoning in the state capital.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations children's agency said on Friday it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Nigeria within the next two months due to lack of funding exacerbated by Trump administration cuts to foreign aid.
SHAH ALAM: A woman went through a harrowing ordeal when her six-year-old daughter was taken along with her stolen car for nearly 45 minutes in an incident in Setia Alam on Wednesday (March 12).
JOHOR BARU: A one-year-old toddler was killed when her father accidentally reversed into her while backing his car out of their garage here.
JOHOR BARU: A one-year-old baby has been killed after her father accidentally ran over her while reversing his car here.
SINGAPORE: What will happen to my child when I die? This question nags at Sun Meilan, 51, constantly. But the mother of an 18-year-old son with autism has her arms full with daily caregiving duties, and rarely has the time to make plans for the future.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Sunday (March 30, 2025)
WINDHOEK, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The streets of Windhoek, Namibia's capital, were alive with vibrant, colorful costumes, music, dance, and people from all walks of life on Saturday as the southern African country officially kicked off the 71st edition of the Windhoek Karneval (WIKA).
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images, it said on Saturday, becoming the first country in the world to introduce the new AI sexual abuse offences.
Teaching children not to give up easily will serve them well in life.
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This potentially dangerous condition is a possibility if your infant or toddler accidentally hits their head hard.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's freeze on U.S. foreign aid globally has included a stop-work order to a program run by aid group Action Against Hunger helping severely malnourished children in refugee camps in Ethiopia, two sources said on Tuesday.
SEREMBAN: The Sessions Court here on Wednesday (March 19) sentenced a daycare assistant to 10 months in prison and fined her RM20,000, in default 20 months in jail, for physically abusing four children, aged between five and six, last year.
KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) - The people of the frontline Ukrainian city of Kherson have more reason than most to want an end to the three-year-old fight with Russia. But a taste of occupation and relentless attacks since Russian forces were pushed back have made them wary of peace talks.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday denied that data collected in a government-funded program that helps track thousands of abducted Ukrainian children had been deleted, but acknowledged that the effort had been terminated as part of Washington's sweeping freeze on almost all foreign aid.
ALOR GAJAH: A lone robber, dubbed the "Man in Black" by Melaka police, escaped with gold items worth RM250,000 after robbing a jewellery outlet in Kuala Sungai Baru here using a toy gun.
(Reuters) - Five Ukrainian children sent away or placed in care since Moscow's February 2022 invasion returned to their homeland on Monday, officials said, part of a long-running campaign to bring home more than 20,000 deported children.
VIENTIANE: More than 221,000 disadvantaged children in remote areas of Laos will directly benefit from a new nutrition programme run by Unicef Laos with support from the government of China worth about US$1.5 million.
More than 221,000 disadvantaged children in remote areas of Laos will directly benefit from a new nutrition programme run by UNICEF Laos with support from the government of China worth about US$1.5 million.