Taliban’s new morality law has sparked fears Afghanistan is returning to the repressive and abusive rule of the 1990s
The 35 amendments to the Law on Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice include prohibitions on everything from men’s haircuts that are deemed to be against shari’a to storing any visual representations of living beings on mobile phones.
UN official wants world attention switched to ‘forgotten crisis in Sudan’ as hundreds are killed in renewed fighting
Global attention has been shifted to the Middle East since the militant group Hamas launched its attack on southern Israel in October last year, triggering a war that has killed about 42,000 people in Gaza. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza does not differentiate between militants and civilians but say more than half of the dead were women and children.
Israel’s military says its jets hit Iran’s missile manufacturing facilities and surface-to-air missile arrays
Arab states situated between Israel and Iran have been particularly worried that use of their airspace could prompt retaliation against them. Jordanian television quoted a source in the country’s armed forces as saying no military planes had been allowed through its airspace. A Saudi official also said that Saudi airspace had not been used for the strike.
Barely weeks after Iranians attempted to bug Trump communication system, Chinese hackers hit Harris campaign
The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on Friday they were investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by people associated with China.
Reproductive freedom rings as a bell in Texas as Harris, Beyoncé storm Houston with double-barrelled message against Trump
Since abortion was restricted in Texas, the state’s infant death rate has increased, more babies have died of birth defects and maternal mortality has risen.
Israel launches missile attack targeting Iran’s military sites as risk of wider Middle East wars rises
Initially, nuclear facilities and oil installations all had been seen as possible targets for Israel’s response to Iran’s October 1 attack, but in mid-October the Biden administration won assurances from Israel that it would not hit such targets, which would be a more severe escalation.
Former commander of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels sentenced to 40 years in prison by Ugandan court
A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s. Thomas Kwoyelo – a former child soldier who later became a rebel...
Even after joining US Army, fighting in wars children adopted by American parents have no citizen’s rights
For most of her life, Joy Alessi was a proud patriot, who got teary-eyed when Garth Brooks sang about America. But patriotism is confusing for her now – as it is for many of the adoptees who’ve found themselves in this predicament.
US presidential election tightens further as Trump gains with Hispanic men, Harris with white women
The analysis of recent Reuters/Ipsos polling shows Trump with support from 37 per cent of registered Hispanic voters, up from 30 per cent at the same point in 2020. Harris is at 51 per cent compared to Biden’s 54 per cent four years earlier. The numbers are subject to sampling error, and have levels of precision of between two and six percentage points.
Statelessness: Why adopted children are not Americans even after living for 70 years in USA
Adoption paperwork, signed by judges and stamped by governments, declared they enjoyed all the privileges of being children of American families. But that was untrue in one critical respect: Adoption for decades did not automatically make children citizens.
