Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, a senator in the Philippines who is now running for the president, recently called on authorities to release Filipino Senator Leila de Lima from jail. As the Philippine Daily Inquirer explained, de Lima is one of many of current President Rodrigo Duterte’s...
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The Taliban ordered Afghan women to cover themselves from head to toe, backtracking on previous pledges to support women’s rights after the militant group took over Afghanistan in August following the withdrawal of foreign troops, Axios reported. Officials issued a decree over the weekend, saying “wearing...
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Sinn Fein won the most votes in Northern Ireland’s regional elections last week, a victory that marks the first time the British-controlled territory will see an Irish nationalist as its leader, CNN reported. Results tallied over the weekend showed that Sinn Fein secured 27 seats in...
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Facebook intentionally took down a number of Australian government pages last year in an attempt to influence the passage of a law that would make tech giants pay to host news articles, the Wall Street Journal reported. In February 2021, the social media giant blocked access...
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All remaining women, children and the elderly were evacuated from the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works factory in Mariupol over the weekend, bringing to a close a tragedy that included thousands of civilians being besieged for weeks amid a Russian assault, according to the...
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For a spider, mating is a matter of life and death. Female spiders often devour their male partners before, during or after mating. But male orb-weaving spiders have developed an effective love-'em-and-leave-'em strategy to avoid becoming the main course, according to Agence France-Presse. Scientists recently discovered that...
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