In Belarus, strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years. Over the weekend, Lukashenko ...

In the 1990s, many Nepali-speaking citizens of Bhutan fled their country to escape oppression under the country’s “One Nation, One People” law. After landing in temporary refugee camps in Nepal, many ...

When the Taliban re-took control of Afghanistan in 2021, women were completely banned from playing sports. Many female athletes fled the country, fearing for their lives. Twenty-one cricket players ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, a steady stream of Western backpackers traveled the overland route from Europe to South Asia, including stops in India, Nepal and Thailand. Author Rick Steves tells host Marco ...

Studies of material harvested from asteroid Bennu by a NASA spacecraft that returned to Earth in 2023 has now shown that it contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical ...

Flamenco music is in good hands with Spanish guitarist Antonio Rey. He’s been playing this style of music since he was 10 years old. Now at 43, Rey has become one of the most passionate and successful ...

The UN’s Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA, is banned as of today’s legislative deadline set by Israel. It must cease operation on Israeli land and within East Jerusalem. Hussein Ibish, a senior resident ...

Femicide is “a crime of murder perpetrated by a man against a woman in the context of gender violence”. That’s the current legal definition in Argentina, where it’s been part of the country’s penal ...

Across Africa, some 600 million people live without consistent power. At a big conference this week in Tanzania, heads of state and officials from the World Bank and the African Development Bank ...

Argentina’s president reverses a law that established femicide as a crime. Also, a new report shows that the majority of young people in the UK would prefer to live in a dictatorship, and many of them ...

The majority of young people in the UK would prefer a dictatorship, according to a new report by British broadcaster Channel 4. It says that 52% of Gen Z surveyed says the UK would be a better place ...

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