ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality…

Bishop Erik Varden delivers his ninth reflection at the Spiritual Exercises in the Vatican for Pope Leo XIV, Cardinals residing in Rome, and heads of Dicasteries, focusing on the theme of ‘Bernard the Realist’. The following is a summary of his…

A Russian drone recently approached the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, currently docked in Malmö, Sweden, during a strategic exercise, Swedish oulet svt.se reported on February 26.
The Swedish Armed Forces detected the drone and…

Laureta* remembers the day she decided to break her silence.
After 10 years of continual physical and psychological abuse by her husband, she walked into her local police station in a coastal city in Albania — afraid but with a new…

Ties between India and Bangladesh frayed after Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to Delhi amid violent protests that toppled her 15-year rule in 2024.
Now, the South Asian neighbors are taking steps towards reconciliation by…

Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would calculate the sheer irrationality of total…

In late January, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) releasedmore than 3.5 million documents related to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The release allowed the public to examine Epstein’s connections to celebrities, business…

Recent comments by United States and Israeli officials supporting the concept of a “Greater Israel” have raised alarm bells across the region and shed light on a vision once only rarely publicly spoken about.
An interview aired last week by…