Sexual violence against Ukrainian men in Russian detention is significantly underreported due to the “stigma and perceived emasculation” attached to the crime, a United Nations agency has warned. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says the official Ukrainian figure of 114 […]
Two fibre-optic undersea cables in the Baltic Sea were severed on Sunday and Monday, raising suspicions over a Chinese cargo vessel, which the Danish navy is currently shadowing through the Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden. The Chinese vessel, which
Commercial air travel has continued doggedly traversing the airspace over the Middle East, despite pilots seeing missiles flying through the air from their cockpits. Drones, rockets and missiles have crisscrossed the sky since Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October
Mike Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion who has recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, is set to face 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a boxing match the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Friday. With an eye-watering $40m up
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Georgians will vote in parliamentary elections on Saturday that look set to define whether the mountainous nation that straddles Eastern Europe and West Asia will pivot towards Moscow or Brussels. The geopolitical bifurcation of the country’s politics has been gradually
Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza has unleashed yet another deadly, but silent enemy on the people there – asbestos. A mineral that poses little risk to humans when undisturbed but that is highly carcinogenic when dispersed and released into the
Amman, Jordan – David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, would eventually fade for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians violently expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias in 1948. In 1949,
Amman, Jordan – Over the weekend, an unusual calm filled the square outside al-Husseini Mosque in the bustling downtown area of Jordan’s capital. The location, sandwiched between a commercial thoroughfare and a busy intersection, has been the site of weekly
Amman, Jordan – Citizens will vote in historic elections for the Parliament of Jordan’s 138-seat lower house on Tuesday. The parliamentary elections are the first since the 2022 constitutional amendments and the implementation of new laws governing elections and political
