Valerie Montchalin found out who her friends were when she transitioned to being a transgender woman in her village high in the Massif Central of central France. Insults and acceptance: being trans in rural France Some turned their backs on the 52-year-old builder. And she was not invited to the village get-together. Everybody knows everybody…
Roy L. Prosterman, a lawyer who left a lucrative corporate law practice to champion land reform in the underdeveloped world, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Seattle. He was 89. His death was announced by the Seattle land-rights institute Landesa, of which he was a founder. The organization did not specify a cause….
The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote share from four years ago, in the strongest showing for a German far-right party since World War II. Some segments of the party, known as the AfD, have been classified as extremist by German intelligence. How could that happen…
A jet of steam rises with a hiss as a red hot poker plunges into a bowl of cider. A garlanded woman spears a piece of toast with a long fork and lodges the offering among the branches of a tree. Then, amid shouts from the watching crowd, the torch-lit ceremony ends with gunfire ringing…
China has issued guidelines to encourage elderly people to volunteer in community services and help underdeveloped areas as the country grapples with a rapidly ageing population and shrinking workforce. The National Committee on Ageing has released a set of guidelines for the Silver Age Action initiative, introduced two decades ago to promote volunteer work by…