Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, 44, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after documenting protests and civilian suffering in Iran, a punishment she says was imposed because she continued to work
A renewed Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is raising urgent questions about whether the world has truly learned the lessons of past pandemics. According to reporting from Nature,
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“How can we allow the tobacco industry to fill its coffers while we, the people, have to empty our pockets to fend for and suffer all the harms the tobacco industry has
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A group of Catholic priests in northern Sri Lanka has renewed allegations that decades of violence suffered by Tamil communities amounted to genocide, reigniting a contentious debate over the legacy of the
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The European Union has taken a decisive step toward a far more restrictive migration regime, agreeing on a new returns regulation that aims to accelerate deportations and expand the bloc’s capacity to
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All over the world , the retirement age for employees in government departments and in large and medium scale organized sector have been fixed as 60 in most cases. In India ,
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A “river of blood” is how one survivor described the aftermath of an attack on Htan Shauk Khan village in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing,” another survivor recalled,
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As the world debates climate targets, carbon markets, and green transitions, countries like Pakistan are already living through the consequences of environmental collapse. Floods, heatwaves, droughts, glacial melting, and unpredictable weather patterns
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For decades, Sri Lanka’s economic trajectory has been severely constrained by a persistent structural vulnerability: the twin deficits. The country has simultaneously run a chronic fiscal deficit and a structural trade deficit,
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Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who waived her anonymity during the trial of her former husband Dominique Pelicot, has warned that pornography is a “scourge” on society that is shaping children’s understanding
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The artificial-intelligence industry may be entering a new and more secretive phase, one in which the most advanced systems are deemed too dangerous for public release. That shift became dramatically visible in
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British national Kayleigh Fraser, who became known during Sri Lanka’s 2022 anti-government unrest for her social media coverage of attacks on protesters at Colombo’s Galle Face Green, is now seeking to have
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For years, Tim Foley and his militia stalked the deserts of southern Arizona hunting migrants, drug couriers and cartel scouts crossing illegally from Mexico into the United States. Armed with AR-15 rifles,
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Sue Firth died in 1997, believing her case would never be solved. Nearly three decades later, her own words helped convict the man who raped her in a Sheffield car park in
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“If a monk, after taking on a monk’s training and way of life, without first renouncing the training and revealing his weakness, has sexual intercourse, even with a female animal, he is
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The glamour of the Cannes Film Festival took on a deeply political tone this week as acclaimed Spanish actress Penélope Cruz delivered a stark message about gender inequality and LGBTQ+ rights during
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