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A former Bangladeshi beauty queen and activist says her life has been turned upside down after an alleged whirlwind romance with a Saudi diplomat ended in scandal, arrest, and public vilification. Meghna
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Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that Western nations are plotting to exterminate the
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By mid-2025, U.S. homicide rates were lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. It is a welcome sign, though the decline has been uneven across the country, and wider trends
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Alphabet-owned YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by former U.S. President Donald Trump over the suspension of his account following the January 2021 Capitol riots, according
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The UK recorded its largest-ever single migrant boat crossing this weekend, underscoring the growing scale of the Channel crisis despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s vow to “smash” the criminal networks behind the
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A Colorado man says he lost his entire retirement and life savings — totaling $1.4 million — after falling victim to a cryptocurrency romance scam, highlighting a growing global trend in online
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt has been adapted from an essay originally published by the author on her Medium profile. I have been home in Northeast India for over a month now,
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Three hours inland from Chennai, India, traffic crawls past rice fields and cow crossings until it reaches a cluster of white buildings: the cancer wing of Christian Medical College Vellore’s Ranipet Campus.
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Errol Musk, the father of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren over a span of three decades, according to a New York
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The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tanzania and extending into southwestern Kenya, this vast ecosystem is home to
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The UK government’s new “one in, one out” migrant deportation scheme is facing criticism after only three migrants were returned to France in its first week, despite plans to remove at least
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China has launched a sweeping crackdown on online religious activity, introducing strict new rules that target digital preaching, artificial intelligence-driven fortune-telling, and the monetization of spiritual practices. The move follows a series
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he United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) will turn its focus to Sri Lanka during its upcoming 29th session in Geneva, where the island nation’s compliance with international obligations to prevent
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CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls on the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to halt the continued harassment of activists and journalists and crackdown on protests. One year since he
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In a long past due move, the UN General Assembly voted 142-10 to approve a plan called “The New York Declaration” that hopes to revive the long dead Two State Solution for
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