[ad_1] In a rare show of unity, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the Taliban’s discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan and calling on the country’s leaders to immediately reverse policies that prohibit the…
[ad_1] Now23:12Mental health help needed for girls kidnapped by Boko Haram Read the transcribed audio The struggle for abducted Nigerian women and girls does not stop when they escape, said Dr. Fatima Akilu. The trauma took a toll on her,…
[ad_1] Hope bounced around Brittney Griner like a buoy and an anchor. The hope of returning home, hoping for a miracle, was limited to months in a Russian prison. In the days of hopelessness, the days that grew when we…
[ad_1] The French president on Thursday entered the cold mountain prison where Toussaint Louverture, the famous leader of the Haitian Revolution, died 220 years ago after being tricked, kidnapped and secreted across the ocean and into the interior of France.…
[ad_1] To learn more about humans, a large international team of scientists spent years tracking down some of the strangest creatures on Earth. He camped on Arctic ice to collect DNA from one-tusked narwhals, captured tiny bumblebee bats in cave-rich…
[ad_1] The Liberal government announced funding for women’s rights overseas – a clear bid to contrast the Liberals’ position on reproductive rights with conservatives in Canada and the United States. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to reaffirm the Canadian…
[ad_1] PHOENIX – Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was at the center of a geopolitical dispute between the United States and Russia last year, is expected to speak to reporters on Thursday for the first time since being released…
[ad_1] Jerry Springer, the one-time mayor and news anchor whose eponymous TV show featured a three-ring circus of a dysfunctional family willing to forget everything in the evening, including brawls, obscenities and blurry images of mudho, died Thursday at 79.…
[ad_1] “Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. At night, you can find Heidi Dillon hopping around Manhattan or San Francisco, staying at a bar and settling in one of them for two hours…
[ad_1] Canada has conducted its first evacuation flight to get Canadians out of Sudan, Defense Minister Anita Anand announced Thursday. Anand did not say how many evacuees were on the plane to escape the war-torn East African country, or when…