Women in Egypt have definitively broken the silence around sexual violence — but what comes next?
Month: April 2021
In this era of plenty (even in the midst of a pandemic), humanity faces a key question: How can we cope with excess without sinking into decline?
This was a different kind of monkey business. Police say they’ve arrested two men in New Delhi for allegedly using monkeys to rob people in motorized rickshaws. The case came to light in early March, when a man in the Indian city’s Malviya Nagar neighborhood reported that three men carrying monkeys had robbed him of […]
Proposals to ban smoking on private balconies are led by activists trying to modify citizen’s lifestyles and fight ‘ideologically different phenomena,’ even when the real harm of these divergent behaviors is negligible.
For the first time in 20 years, Myanmar regime fighter jets dropped bombs on territory partly controlled by the KNU, an armed group that has been fighting the central government for seven decades and bears the name of a large ethnic minority, the Karen.
An Iranian health official has echoed the Supreme Leader’s repeated calls to rejuvenate the country’s population, and ditch ‘Western style’ family planning.
Residents of the state’s ‘bastis’ get free rations and state-provided services on the back of ID documents with proof of address. But their homes are also subject to frequent demolition on the grounds that they are illegal encroachment.
The University of Oxford is planning to change its curriculum to focus on fewer white composers and more non-European music. But does it really make sense to bury Beethoven and Brahms?
There are the laws of the nation, then there’s what grandma says. Those two codes collided in a recent case in Iran, where a grandmother who was robbed by her own grandson was ready to see him pay for the crime — until she found out the punishment was chopping off the young man’s hand. […]
Across the globe, mafia syndicates, white-collar criminals, hackers and scammers are finding novel ways to profit from the ongoing health crisis.
By closing bars and restaurants, we are not only depriving the sharing of meals but also the real exchange of ideas.
A French judge used a stand-in for the role of the groom, registering her ex-boyfriend’s name as her husband because she feared he would marry another woman.
Only about 150,000 of the country’s 100 million people have been vaccinated so far against COVID-19, and in some crowded health centers, people wait hours only to be turned away.
Mexican President López Obrador has made it clear that he prefers keeping the United States at arm’s length.
There was only one problem: the weather.
The presence of the faithful at Mass, regardless of the threat to their health and lives, is essential for the Church to physically survive. And the state is an accomplice.
Volkswagen and other German car companies want to develop their own software systems and thus close the e-car technology gap with Tesla. But success will depend on a cultural change in the established auto sector.
Rather than ratchet up spending on America’s already bloated military, the U.S. president should take a broader view of national security and help develop economies elsewhere.
A century ago, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Americans were eager let down their guard and get on with normal life. The consequences were enormous.
The French have been under a strict curfew for months. Now they’re being ordered back into lockdown, but with little evidence that these Draconian measures even work.
Cartoon characters parading down the streets are usually synonymous with childhood glee, theme parks and carnival floats. But as French daily Le Parisien reports, recent encounters with the beloved icons such as Mickey Mouse or Winnie the Pooh have been followed by calls to the police in eastern France. Since last month, multiple reports to […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/SvrqUfd_El8 expand=1] One year into the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil registered its deadliest month in March. In the 31 days that have just passed, 66,573 people were killed by COVID-19, more than double the previous monthly high. The explosion of cases is largely blamed on the local virus variant, believed to be more contagious, having […]
With the sudden departure of Brazil’s top generals, Jair Bolsonaro’s government may be weakened. But it may also be setting up the ultimate showdown for the country’s democracy ahead of next year’s election.
In order to circumvent French and German mediation, the Kremlin is leaking secrets to the press as a defacto policy of stalling in its seven-year-long conflict with Ukraine.
Perhaps it was looking to make a statement about the carbon footprint of the food industry, or maybe it was hoping to hop up the Eiffel Tower some day. No one will ever know why (or how) the tiny Guadeloupean frog clung to a banana for 6,400 kilometers to land in Europe, but the odd […]
Is the former Beatles band mate to blame for declining beef consumption in the BBQ-loving country?