On Monday, hundreds of thousands of Britons lined up and millions more tuned in to say farewell to their queen. It was a spectacle full of pageantry befitting the reverence reserved for this beloved monarch who died this month aged 96 after serving for 70...
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Iranian authorities launched a violent crackdown on protesters demonstrating over the death of a 22-year-old woman who died in the custody of the country’s “morality police,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported that five protesters allegedly died after being fired upon by police. The unrest...
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Army helicopters killed at least 13 people, including seven children, at a school in central Myanmar this week, the latest outbreak of violence as the country’s military junta continues its brutal crackdown against opposition movements, Reuters reported Tuesday. Media reports said the incident occurred Friday at...
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Equatorial Guinea abolished the death penalty this week, a move that has been described as “historic” in a nation that is infamously known as one of the world’s most authoritarian countries, Agence France-Presse reported. Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue confirmed via social media that President...
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A new study uncovered the genetic development of one of humanity’s oldest parasites, the BBC’s Science Focus wrote. For thousands of years, the human whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, has been one of the main sources of bellyaches in ancient civilizations. The parasites live in the intestines of their...
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