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What can help to protect women’s health, boost the incomes of impoverished families and thus allow girls to avoid early marriage? What – when it disappears – can set back children’s education, damage mental wellbeing, drive conflict within communities and become a vector for racial hatred? The humble donkey has rarely been in the spotlight. Yet…
Jun 26, 2025 03:28 AM IST ‘They’re going to need money to put that country back into shape. We want to see that happen,’ Trump said. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US has not given up its maximum pressure on Iran – including restrictions on sales of Iranian oil – but signaled…
Fortnite gamers who were charged for unwanted purchases while playing the online video game could receive a slice of the $126 million in refunds the Federal Trade Commission is sending out this week. The regulatory agency is reopening the claims submission process for gamers who are eligible for a refund under a $245 million settlement…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies as a bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged to ensure that the United States would prevail against China in the global competition over AI. “We are in a new Cold War, and AI is the strategic technology at the…
DETROIT (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a 14-year-old student who said a teacher humiliated her for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Danielle Khalaf’s teacher told her, “Since you live in this country and…
Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was deported back to his home country and then returned to the U.S. for federal prosecution, is set to remain in jail until at least Friday, as lawyers debate whether the Justice Department can stop him from being deported if he is released from federal custody…
Hong Kong authorities have referred 15 suspicious cases under a government subsidy scheme to law enforcement over the past three years, while also conducting random checks on 1,860 projects funded by the programme. Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong, in a written reply on Wednesday to a lawmaker’s questions about the suspected abuse…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — As the world turns its attention to the Middle East, China’s military expansion remains in the background. The NATO Secretary General expressed concern over China’s military expansion around Taiwan. Chinese Communist Party expert Gordon Chang said war in Asia could happen anywhere, not just in Taiwan. “I think there’s a bigger risk…
What did you miss? Amol Rajan has said he was “terrified” when he got caught up in the panic after 30 people were killed in a crowd crush at India’s Kumbh Mela festival. The University Challenge host made a pilgrimage to the Hindu festival at the Ganges, hoping that it would help as he struggled…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News. Redwood was the president of the group now called Children’s Health Defense, which lists as its founder…