Aficionados of Spanish history will likely know that the fascists won the country’s civil war in the 1930s. Socialists took over in the 1980s and 90s, from 2004 until 2011, and again in 2018 when Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party...
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Pegasus spyware was deployed against members of the Mexican president’s inner circle who are investigating alleged abuses by the military, the Washington Post reported this week. Sources and digital rights advocates said Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights and a close friend to President Andrés...
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South African police and United Nations investigators captured the most wanted fugitive involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a man who had eluded justice for more than 20 years, CNN reported Thursday. Authorities discovered Fulgence Kayishema in the town of Paarl in western South Africa on...
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France banned domestic short-haul flights this week because the government wants to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, CNBC reported. The new law – published via decree – will prohibit short flights between French destinations when a train journey of fewer than 2.5 hours “provides a...
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This week, Russia and Belarus signed a deal formalizing the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles on Belarusian territory, Al Jazeera noted. Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously announced the deployment in March, emphasizing Russia’s readiness to use nuclear weapons to defend its territorial integrity....
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Past studies have shown that mosquitoes are attracted to some humans because of their specific body odor. But a new paper recently suggested that a person’s choice of soap can turn them into a “mosquito magnet,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Scientists recently tested whether certain types...
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