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The love for the Argentine football team runs deep in India and Bangladesh, writes Ali Abbas Ahmadi, where fans have been obsessed with the sky-blue-and-whites for decades.
One of the largest influxes ever of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh has forced Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to upscale provision of medical care to wounded and malnourished Myanmar refugees.
Among the 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh, many have fallen prey to traffickers, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Of the 520,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks over 290,000 are children, haunted by the horrors they have witnessed.
Since March, the World Food Programme has been forced to cut food assistance to Rohingya refugees in camps in Cox’s Bazar, putting pregnant women, newborns and children below the age of five at risk of malnutrition, anaemia and scurvy.
Book Club: Nazneen Ahmed Pathak’s debut children’s novel, City of Stolen Magic, presents the British colonisation of India with a fun twist for children to not only learn about the real history of colonisation but to also spark their imaginations.
Book Club: Discussions in the British Muslim community about love and sexual desire have long been denigrated to taboo. But with the latest generation continuing to grow in creative stature, a new crop of authors are challenging this culture.
The continual flight of Rohingya from state-sponsored persecution in Myanmar has led to untold trauma and distress. However, for Rohingya children now based in Kashmir, painting has become a new vital means to recount their stories of suffering.
India's diverse history is being targeted by Hindu nationalists, who are peddling false claims and conspiracy theories to disown the country's 800-year-old Muslim heritage.
Away from COP27 and grandiose headlines from heads of state, the world's most vulnerable are sinking deeper into the depths of the climate crisis. More than a billion live in areas of high water vulnerability, with collective action a far cry away.