‘FIGHT BACK’: The British Supreme Court’s decision last week on the legal definition of a ‘woman’ is expected to have far-reaching consequences
Thousands of people on Saturday rallied in London and Edinburgh in support of trans rights, after a landmark UK court ruling on the definition of a “woman.” The British Supreme Court on Wednesday last week ruled that the legal definition of a “woman” is based on a person’s sex at birth, with potenti
Young women standing idly around a park in Tokyo’s west suggest that a giant statue of Godzilla is not the only attraction for a record number of foreign tourists. Their faces lit by the cold glow of their phones, the women lining Okubo Park are evidence that sex tourism has developed as a dark flip
The US and Iran on Saturday made progress in a second round of high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear program and agreed to meet again next week, both sides said. The Oman-mediated talks in Rome lasted about four hours, Iranian state television and a senior US official said. Iranian Minister of Forei
A Tunisian court handed jail terms of 13 to 66 years to opposition leaders, businesspeople and lawyers on charges of conspiring against state security, the state news agency TAP reported on Saturday, citing a judicial official. The opposition says the charges were fabricated and the trial a symbol o
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced again that Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza and would not end the war before destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages and ensuring that the territory would not present a threat to Israel. The prime minister also rep
A bus hangs off an overpass after colliding with a vehicle in Santiago on Saturday.
HORROR CONTINUES: Israel is pressuring Hamas to disarm and return hostages, while the latter is demanding a lasting truce, as called for in the previous ceasefire agreement
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 25 people on Friday, including children, hospital workers said, as the new US ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem.The dead included 15 people killed in three strikes on the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser
The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday said that its fighters would not disarm as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon and the Israeli air force regularly enters Lebanese air space.Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Kassem said Hezbollah had implemented its commitments
Pupy the elephant arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, yesterday, following a 2,700km overland journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she had spent 30 years in conditions criticized by activists.The Buenos Aires mayor’s office in a
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing yesterday, the first time those machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course.The robots from Chinese manufacturers such as DroidVP and Noetix Robotics came in all shapes and sizes, some shorter
HUE KNEW? Researchers fired laser pulses into their eyes and saw a color similar to turquoise, which they named ‘olo,’ that is beyond the natural range of the naked eye
After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. Not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a color no one has seen before.The bold — and contested — assertion follows an experiment in which researchers in the US had laser p
MOVING ON? US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US has been helping Ukraine for three years, and although Washington wants the conflict to end, it is not their war
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday said Washington needed to decide soon if a Ukraine truce was feasible, as he left Paris following meetings with European officials. “We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it’s not, the
France said talks on Thursday between top US and European officials on the war in Ukraine had launched a “positive process,” as Europe seeks to be included in efforts to end the three-year-old conflict.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio again pressed a US peace plan during the discussions in Paris.Th
DIVISIONS: A retired air force pilot who initiated a letter said it was ‘crystal clear’ that the renewal of war was not for security reasons, but was political
When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document. In the days since, thousands of retired and reservist soldiers across the mili
Talks between Iran and the US over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program are “in a very crucial” stage, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday while on a visit to the Islamic Republic.The comments by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi includ
Myanmar’s junta and a key opposition group have indicated they would extend a ceasefire to support more aid efforts after a devastating earthquake, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday, following rare high-level talks with the ruling military.Myanmar has been in the throes of an exp
NEW YEAR EVENT: If the freed people contravene the law again they would have to serve the remainder of their original sentence in addition to any new ones
The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to about 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported yesterday, but it was not immediately clear how many were political detainees locked up for opposing army rule.Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the h
‘NOT A GREAT UNIVERSITY’: The US president wrote that ‘Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning,’ while the US IRS might be poised to act
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Harvard a “joke” and said it should lose its government research contracts after the university refused to accept outside political supervision.Trump’s administration also threatened to ban the institute from accepting foreign students unless it bowed to
Sweden is getting up a head of steam for what could be a record number of Eurovision wins this year with a humorous sauna act.KAJ, a comedy group more accustomed to playing birthday parties than large arena shows, is already the bookies’ favorite to triumph at the extravaganza in Basel, Switzerland,
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