Author: Mohsin Farooq

Haruki Ume spoke to UN News at the UN Pavilion at Expo 2025 currently being held in the Japanese city of Osaka. One section of the pavilion features a rotating presentation focusing on a specific UN agency or entity and recently, attention turned to the UN Volunteers programme. “As a 17-year-old, I travelled to the United States on an educational exchange programme […]

Listen to article At least 68 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Sunday in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and local reports. In Gaza City, 25 people were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed two homes sheltering displaced families in the Sheikh Radwan and Al-Nasr neighborhoods, a medical source said. Eyewitnesses said the houses were filled with […]

Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent NurPhoto via Getty Images A displaced child plays inside a destroyed vehicle at the Arafat Police Academy in Gaza City A senior officer in Hamas’s security forces has told the BBC the Palestinian armed group has lost about 80% of its control over the Gaza Strip and that armed clans are filling the void. The lieutenant colonel said […]

“Cooperatives are a system that enables the South Sudanese to improve their livelihoods, but at the same time also contributes to the economy… this is the only way for South Sudan to move out of poverty,” said Louis Bagare project manager of cooperatives at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in South Sudan. He was speaking ahead of the International Day of Cooperatives, which […]

Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program. Mohsin FarooqMohsin Farooq – Founder & Chief Editor The visionary behind WebNetworking, Mohsin has over 10 years of experience in digital media. As the Editor-in-Chief, […]

Listen to article A ship came under attack in the Red Sea off the southwest coast of Yemen on Sunday, a British maritime agency and a security firm said, in an assault that one of them said bore the hallmarks of the Houthi group. Maritime security sources said the vessel, which they identified as the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier Magic Seas, had taken on […]

An explosion ripped through a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in the US state of Utah on Saturday night. It came after a car veered off the road and crashed into the building, the local fire agency has said. In a statement shared on Instagram, United Fire Authority (UFA) said that a three-car accident resulted in one vehicle crashing into a pizza restaurant, “rupturing […]

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, António Guterres expressed alarm over the dangerous escalation and the rising toll on civilians. He reiterated that attacks against civilians and critical infrastructure are prohibited under international law and called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. “These strikes disrupted the power supply to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, once again underlining the ongoing risks to […]

Just before the Dalai Lama turned 90, he announced that his successor would be selected through the traditional process of reincarnation. Mujib Mashal, The New York Times’s South Asia bureau chief, explains why this process could increase tensions with China. Mohsin FarooqMohsin Farooq – Founder & Chief Editor The visionary behind WebNetworking, Mohsin has over 10 years of experience in digital media. As the Editor-in-Chief, he oversees […]

Listen to article Russia’s anti-aircraft systems downed 120 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly in regions bordering Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday, reporting no damage. More than three years into the war, Ukraine has increasingly been using drones to attack targets deep inside Russia. Read More: Untangling the Spider’s Web of Ukraine The Defence Ministry said the drones that were intercepted overnight included […]

Getty Images Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ camp perched on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas, was a place of laughter, prayer, and adventure just days ago. Among the girls at the camp was eight-year-old Renee Smajstrla, smiling ear-to-ear in a picture taken on one of those days – “having the time of her life” with her friends. But the […]