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March 16, 2022

Questions as Weapons

Bangladesh will ban questions regarding the “immoral character” of rape victims after a landmark decision that follows years of campaigning by women’s rights groups against the humiliating and traumatizing interrogations of survivors, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. Officials said that the government plans to amend the Evidence...

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March 15, 2022

An Assassin, a Hero

Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Corsica this week following a prison assault of a Corsican nationalist figure that sparked anger on the French Mediterranean island, Agence France-Presse reported. Authorities said that more than 60 people, including 44 police officers, were injured in the skirmishes,...

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March 15, 2022

The Left Wave

Left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s primary election this week, a victory that puts the former Marxist guerilla fighter as a top contender in May's presidential vote, the Financial Times reported Monday. Petro, who is also a senator and former congressman, will now go to the...

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March 14, 2022

Elusive Justice

A French court convicted four men of conspiracy to commit terrorism in the murder of an 85-year-old Catholic priest in Normandy in 2016, the latest trial related to attacks connected to the Islamic State terrorist group, the Associated Press reported. The defendants received sentences between eight...

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March 09, 2022

Hear Them Roar

Nigeria’s lower house of parliament rescinded its decision to discard three gender equality bills Tuesday, following outrage and mass protests from women in the West African country, Al Jazeera reported. Last week, lawmakers rejected the bills described by women’s rights activists as “a slap to the...

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March 07, 2022

Momentous Masses

Chile will create a large national park to protect the country’s hundreds of glaciers melting because of climate change, Agence France-Presse reported. The new National Glacier Park will cover more than 185,000 acres of the Andes mountain about 40 miles from the capital, Santiago. Outgoing President Sebastian...

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March 04, 2022

The Return of the King

Spanish prosecutors dropped three cases against former King Juan Carlos this week, citing insufficient evidence, the statute of limitations and the monarch’s constitutional immunity, the Guardian reported Thursday. The 84-year-old royal had been embroiled in a number of damaging scandals concerning his business dealings that prompted...

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March 04, 2022

Ceremonial Duties

Armenian lawmakers elected former minister of high-technology industry, Vanagh Khachatrian, as the country’s new president, following the resignation of his predecessor over the lack of power in the presidency, Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Khachatrian won 71 votes in the second round of balloting and is...

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