June2023

In an ongoing dispute over wages, hospital doctors in England launched the longest strike in the history of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) on Friday. The British Medical Association announced a five-day strike by junior...

Guatemalans head to the polls on Sunday, with two popular candidates disqualified and several prosecutors and journalists arrested or in exile as a result of the government’s anti-corruption crackdown. There are 22 contenders in the running,...

The Israeli army admitted Friday that it “failed” to prevent a Jewish settler raid on a Palestinian hamlet in the occupied West Bank, during which one villager was killed. Revenge attacks on Turmus Ayya and other...

Christine Febriyanti, an Indonesian livestreamer, stood in a room filled with clothes in Jakarta, marketing colorful items to hundreds of viewers on a TikTok livestream for a local fashion firm. “For the Vitamin C kind of...

According to new data released on Friday, the global diabetes population will more than double to 1.3 billion by 2050, owing to structural racism and significant disparities between countries. According to the most thorough worldwide data...

On Friday, a Malaysian court charged four Thai nationals with people trafficking in connection with the discovery of mass graves along the country’s border with Thailand eight years ago. In 2015, more than 100 bodies were...

Authorities said a “major construction” project at Brazilian football star Neymar’s residence in Rio de Janeiro state was halted on Thursday due to “environmental infractions,” which could result in a $1 million fine. The project was...

The Olympic torch has traveled to space, deep sea, and even Mount Everest. It has had its fair share of disasters along the way. As Paris prepares to reveal the route for the 2024 Olympic torch...

After five turbulent years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern revealed Friday that she will write a book about leadership that will be published worldwide. Ardern, who turns 43 next month, said in an...

All five passengers aboard a submersible that went missing near the Titanic’s wreckage died in an instant, according to the US Coast Guard, after their vessel suffered a “catastrophic implosion” in the ocean depths. The mournful...