Why has Arizona re-enacted a 160-year-old abortion ban? | Women’s Rights
Arizona’s Supreme Court has ruled that a 160-year-old law that places a near total ban on abortions may go back into effect in 14 days.…
Why are British farmers pleading for a universal basic income? | Agriculture News
A new lobby group in the United Kingdom is calling for a universal basic income (UBI) for all British farmers amid concerns that government funding…
Thirty years waiting for a house: South Africa’s ‘backyard’ dwellers | Housing
Cape Town, South Africa – In the backyard of a small house in Cape Town’s Mitchells Plain stands a one-room corrugated iron structure. Inside, Cheryl-Ann…
Why a Sri Lankan island is sparking an Indian election controversy | India Election 2024
New Delhi, India – Fifty years after India and Sri Lanka settled a long-simmering dispute over a tiny island, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has…
Indigenous people in Philippines’s north ‘ready to fight’ as tensions rise | South China Sea News
This is the second of two reports from the Philippines's northernmost province of Batanes. You can read the first – from Mavulis Island – here.…
‘Accepted in both [worlds]’: Indonesia’s Chinese Muslims prepare for Eid | Religion News
Jakarta, Indonesia – Millions of Muslims across Indonesia, including some of its ethnic Chinese minority, are preparing for Lebaran, as Indonesians call Eid, the festival…
In Michigan, a Ramadan like no other as Muslims grapple with Gaza’s siege | Israel War on Gaza News
Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the US – For most of her life, Yasmeen Hamed has been an observant Muslim. But by her own admission, she did…
In Italy, a Palestinian lawyer who fled Gaza builds Israel genocide case | Israel War on Gaza News
Messina, Italy – Piles of court documents in English and Arabic filled the desk and covered the floor of Triestino Mariniello’s home office for much of…
Three ways Phil Foden has been transformed into Man City’s new David Silva and England’s Euro 2024 swiss army knife
WHEN David Silva announced he was leaving English football at the end of the 2019/20 season to return to Spain with Real Sociedad, Manchester City…
Philippines beefs up defences on its northernmost edge amid China tensions | South China Sea News
This is the first in a two-part series from the Philippines's most northerly province. Mavulis Island, Philippines – The military detachment on the Philippines’s northernmost…
Week in pictures: An earthquake in Taiwan to Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem
A roundup of some of last week’s events. Source link
In Ecuador, gov’t sees mining as the future. But communities are divided | Mining News
Las Pampas, Ecuador – The alarm rang at 7am, summoning everyone in the main square. Protesters boarded three trucks, normally used to transport livestock. The…
Rwanda genocide: ‘Frozen faces still haunt’ photojournalist, 30 years on | Genocide
Warning: Some of the images below are graphic and show victims of massacres. On April 7, 1994, one of the most harrowing events in modern…
What is a Godzilla anyway? The 70-year-old monster behind the movies | Arts and Culture News
It’s Godzilla season again with last weekend’s worldwide theatrical release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. This is the second time Godzilla and King…
How one Mexican beach town saved itself from ‘death by tourism’ | Sustainability
Puerto Escondido, Mexico – With its bucolic beaches, lush greenery and kaleidoscopic sunsets, it is not difficult to see why the remote tropical paradise of…
Lebanon’s rock-climbing renaissance | Features
Among the terraced olive groves of northern Lebanon, a young man with sharp features and a shaved head ties a rope onto a harness around…
Why scores of dogs will honour a Great Dane in Cape Town this weekend | News
Cape Town, South Africa – Just Nuisance, who died 80 years ago this week, was the first dog in the world to receive an official…
Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture
Kochi, India - A chance encounter when he was selling postcards to tourists in Jew Town as a 13-year-old in the early 1980s would change…
‘Mission impossible’: Families slam Canada’s Gaza visa scheme as a failure | Israel War on Gaza News
Montreal, Canada – “Unlivable.” That’s how Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller, described the situation in the Gaza Strip in late December. The Palestinian territory was…
Shameless unions’ coordinated strike blitz aims to topple Tories – but Labour would give them exactly what they demand
DOES anyone really believe that the strikes paralysing the railways this weekend, the National Education Union’s threat to strike in September, and the continuing junior…