India shuts Kashmir medical college – after Muslims earned more admissions
Hindu groups insisted that Muslims shouldn’t benefit from institutions founded by a Hindu charity.

Hindu groups insisted that Muslims shouldn’t benefit from institutions founded by a Hindu charity.


![Displaced Palestinian mother, Yasmine Al-Aajouri, helps her seven-year-old daughter Toulin Al-Hindi with her homework inside their tent near the Israeli-designated "yellow line", in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on Jan. 6, 2026. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-1768247697.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



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![Children, who were released after being kidnapped last month, sit in a hall upon their arrival at the Niger State Government House in Minna on Dec. 22, 2025. Some 130 Nigerian Catholic school pupils were handed over to state authorities on December 22, 2025, a day after the government said it had secured their release a month after one of the country's worst mass abductions. Kidnappings for ransom are a common way for armed groups to make quick cash in the conflict-hit west African nation of some 230 million, but a spate of attacks in November put an uncomfortable international spotlight on Nigeria's grim security situation. [ Audu Abba Kurama/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1766433183.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


More than 8,000 candidates sat for a government exam on a runway in Odisha in India.

President Trump’s name was put on The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The US has increasingly looked abroad to fill teaching shortages. But some educators fear uncertainty under Trump.
At least two students killed and nine others wounded in gun attack at the prestigious Ivy League university in the US.

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said that Israel is carrying out what he calls a “scholasticide” in Gaza.

Parents in rural Nigeria still have no idea what has happened to their children weeks after kidnappers abducted 300.









After two years of war, students have returned to in-person classes at Gaza’s Islamic University.
More than 300 students abducted amid surge in armed attacks, bringing back memories of 2014 Chibok girls’ kidnapping.

Two days after they were abducted from their beds by armed attackers, 24 Nigerian schoolgirls are still missing.