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Police investigating Kenyan cult find 26 more bodies
AFP, Published on 24/04/2023
» MALINDI (KENYA) - Kenyan police said Sunday they had found the bodies of another 26 suspected cult members in the east of the country, bringing to 47 the number of corpses linked to the movement.
Women are leading Covid recovery
Oped, Published on 17/03/2023
» Three years after the pandemic was formally declared, the world is now firmly in the recovery stage. But the huge potential contribution of women's leadership is still being undervalued, under-resourced, or overlooked altogether.
Women's access to the digital world
Oped, Poonam Khetrapal, Published on 08/03/2023
» On International Women's Day, which falls today, WHO is calling for intensified action in the South-East Asia Region and across the world to ensure that every woman and girl, everywhere has timely and equitable access to digital innovations and technologies that can protect, promote and support health and well-being, and accelerate gender equality.
The women who lived as sex slaves to an Indian goddess
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BELGAUM, India: Dedicated to an Indian goddess as a child, Huvakka Bhimappa's years of sexual servitude began when her uncle took her virginity, raping her in exchange for a saree and some jewellery.
Canada to pay Indigenous abuse survivors more than $2bn
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» OTTAWA - Canada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced.
Funeral held for controversial cardinal Pell
AFP, Published on 14/01/2023
» VATICAN CITY: Several dozen people including bishops, cardinals and archbishops turned out for the funeral of the controversial Cardinal George Pell in the Vatican on Saturday.
George Pell denied public memorial in home Australian state
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» SYDNEY - An Australian state leader on Thursday emphatically ruled out a taxpayer-funded memorial for Cardinal George Pell, saying it would be "deeply distressing" for sexual abuse survivors.
Huge fire in Poipet hotel-casino
Published on 29/12/2022
» At least 19 people have been reported killed and up to 30 were still missing on Thursday night after a fire broke out at a Cambodian casino-hotel complex in the border town of Poipet.
UK royals show ruthlessness in race row
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» LONDON: The timing could not have been worse for Britain's royal family, not long after one racial reckoning involving Prince Harry and ahead of a new publicity blitz from the maverick "spare heir".
Prince William, Kate, arrive in US for visit overshadowed by new racism row
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» BOSTON - Prince William and wife Kate began their first visit to America in eight years Wednesday under the cloud of a fresh racism row after his godmother quit the royal household for repeatedly asking a Black British woman where she was "really" from.