A court in Sudan recently sentenced a woman to death by stoning on adultery charges. The cruel decision, the first in a decade, is bad enough, the Guardian reported. But some Sudanese worry that it heralds a new era of female oppression and human rights...
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Belarus broke the law when it diverted a Ryanair passenger flight to arrest a dissident Belarusian journalist last year, according to a report by the United Nation’s civil aviation agency, Radio Free Europe reported Tuesday. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) released a fact-finding report on...
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Staff at Lebanon’s central bank began a three-day strike Wednesday as authorities conducted a raid on the institution in a divisive investigation against the bank’s embattled governor Riad Salameh, the National reported. On Tuesday, Judge Ghada Aoun and security forces entered the Banque du Liban searching...
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Spain’s Supreme Court scrapped a rule that prevented shorter women from joining the country’s police force, ruling that the regulation was “discriminatory,” Euronews reported. The case is related to a woman, who was rejected from the force in 2017 for failing to fulfill the height requirement....
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Russian natural gas began flowing again at a reduced volume through a crucial pipeline into Europe on Thursday, allowing time for countries to decouple from the Kremlin's exports as they anticipate a more unstable supply of energy from Moscow heading into the winter, the...
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The dengue and Zika viruses can make an infected host more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a new study. Scientists found that the two viruses are able to alter the scent of their host, practically turning them into a mosquito magnet, Deutsche Welle reported. Tropical diseases such...
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