[ad_1] The United Nations opened its first conference on water security in nearly half a century on Wednesday, with calls for governments to better manage one of humanity’s most important resources. A quarter of the world’s population depends on unsafe…
[ad_1] Millions of Muslims are gearing up for the holy month of Ramadan, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. Here’s how pilgrims around the world mark this time, including special prayers, blessings and fasting. For the…
[ad_1] Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ community are shocked and fear arrest after parliament passed a new law that makes it a crime to identify as gay, and impose tough sentences that include the death penalty in certain cases, activists said…
[ad_1] Badgers have dug their homes under a main railway line in the Netherlands, leaving tens of thousands of passengers facing delays. Train traffic has been halted, possibly for weeks, between the two main southern cities, Den Bosch and Eindhoven,…
[ad_1] Russia blew up apartment blocks in Ukraine with missiles on Wednesday and cities with drone strikes overnight, in a show of force as Russian President Vladimir Putin bid farewell to his “dear friend” and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Firefighters…
[ad_1] The Federal Reserve is set to announce its latest interest rate policy on Wednesday, a decision more in doubt than it was nearly a month ago due to a smoldering crisis in the US banking system. Most economists watching…
[ad_1] A New York Grand Jury is expected to finish deliberating on a case that could lead to the indictment of the US president. Former president Donald Trump has said he hopes to be arrested in the case, which involved…
[ad_1] Police in India’s northwestern Punjab state, the country’s only Sikh-majority state, say they are looking for a key voice in the separatist movement and are taking extraordinary measures to find them. Punjabi police said they are doing a “mega…
[ad_1] Boris Johnson is back in the spotlight. But he didn’t like it for his reasons. The former British prime minister faced a committee of MPs on Wednesday over whether he misled Parliament about his party breaking rules in government…
[ad_1] As he made his way through the winding alleys around the enormous piles of garbage, Rajesh Prajapati showed the countless ways that the waste pickers could pass to the magnificent mountains at the edge of the slums that give…