THE HAGUE, July 9 — The International Criminal Court yesterday issued arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, accusing them of the persecution of women and girls.

HUNT, Texas, July 7 — The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 67 yesterday, including 21 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — Two 12-year-old girls were among 38 motorcyclists detained for suspected involvement in illegal racing during an operation by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) in Jalan Ampang and Jalan Sultan Ismail early yesterday.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 12 — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai today urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls.

DAMASCUS, Dec 20 — Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system as of next week but will not otherwise change school curricula or restrict the rights of girls to learn, the country's new education minister said.

PUTRAJAYA, June 4 — Two girls drowned while a man in his 30s is still missing while bathing at Bagan Lalang Beach, this afternoon.