Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
The ink on the European Court of Justice’s ruling was barely dry when a surreal scene unfolded in Brussels: while judges ruled that the European Commission’s refusal to disclose Ursula von der
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French President Emmanuel Macron issued a powerful call for consistency in global responses to conflict, warning against double standards in international diplomacy during a keynote address at the prestigious Shangri-La Dialogue on
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The Isha Yoga Center, nestled in the foothills of the Velliangiri mountains in southern India, promotes itself as a “sacred place for self-transformation.” But now, the global spiritual empire led by Jaggi
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Gerry Adams, the former president of Ireland’s Sinn Féin party, has been awarded €100,000 in damages after winning a high-profile defamation case against the BBC at the High Court in Dublin. The
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The president of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has declared that international recognition for the breakaway territory is “on the horizon,” citing ongoing high-level engagements with the United States, including what he describes
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Point no. 1: 733 million people faced chronic hunger in 2023, according to studies from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and United Nations
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Nadira Yeasmin, an assistant professor of Bangla language at Narsingdi Government College in Bangladesh, has been transferred nearly 270 kilometers away to Satkhira Government Mahila College following a demand from the Islamist
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A former college principal in India, Punjilal Meher, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sending a parcel bomb disguised as a wedding gift that killed two people and injured another in
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The Western Cape High Court has handed down life sentences to the three individuals convicted in the kidnapping and human trafficking of six-year-old Joshlin Smith. While the verdict brings a degree of
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Klaus Schwab, the 87-year-old founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has filed a criminal complaint against unnamed whistleblowers whose allegations triggered his departure from the organisation he led for over five
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