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Category: WORLD
When Gambia Banned Female Genital Cutting, a Defia...
Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to be co...
Solar Farms Look to Produce Something Apart From P...
The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wil...
Macron Names Michel Barnier to Be French Prime Min...
The president’s choice of a right-wing politician, after an extraordinary delay, is certain to inflame opponents on the left who c...
Middle East Crisis: Polio Campaign Enters Next Pha...
As the first phase of vaccinations ended, an Israeli strike hit a hospital courtyard in central Gaza where people were sheltering,...
Ugandan Olympic Runner Rebecca Cheptegei Dies Afte...
The athlete, who was set on fire in Kenya by a man with whom she was in a relationship, competed in the women’s marathon at the Pa...
Pope Finds Fervent Fans Among Indonesia’s Transgen...
For many trans women living on the fringes of the nation’s society, the Catholic Church is a haven, and Pope Francis a personal he...
Blinken Visits a Haiti Wracked by Corruption and G...
The United States has played a supporting role behind Kenya’s deployment of a security force tasked with helping Haitian police co...
How American Pastors in Nicaragua Ended Up Impriso...
Evangelical pastors led by a Texas missionary in Nicaragua were accused of money laundering, in a widespread crackdown on religiou...
Fugitive Ex-Mayor Whose Case Gripped the Philippin...
Officials have accused Alice Guo of helping criminal syndicates involved in online scams and human trafficking, and have questione...
In the Paralympic Fix-It Shop, Plenty of Fractures...
Repair technicians at the Paris Games fix everything from bent wheelchair frames to broken sunglasses.
Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq...
For years, a U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves, but now the Iraqi government is ordering it to leave. Many sites rem...
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service says it has de...
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service says it has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein