Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence.
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Three suspects at large after shooting at Toronto pub leaves a dozen injured
Three suspects are at large after a mass shooting at the opening night of a pub in Toronto that left a dozen people injured, Canadian
Around the world in 60 hours: Nigerian aims to set travel record with ‘low-mobility’ passport
In 2019, Alma Asinobi, a Nigerian postgraduate architecture student, gave herself an ambitious goal after obtaining her first passport: to visit up to 16 countries
South Sudan general among dozens killed in attack on UN helicopter
A South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers have been killed after a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern town of
Woman kidnapped as a toddler in the US 25 years ago found alive in Mexico
A woman who was abducted in Connecticut as a toddler has been found alive 25 years later in Mexico. Andrea Michelle Reyes was two years
Mexico: 200 pairs of shoes found at clandestine crematorium
Two hundred pairs of shoes have been found at a clandestine crematorium on a ranch in the Mexican state of Jalisco, in a disturbing demonstration
Nigerian king faces Shell in London high court over decades of oil spills
His Royal Highness King Godwin Bebe Okpabi has carried bottles of water drawn from the wells of his homeland in the Niger delta to the
Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum
More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to
St Vincent and the Grenadines buys island central to Garifuna culture
Members of the Garifuna community are celebrating “a historic and long-awaited victory” after the Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) announced the
FBI offers $10m reward for ex-Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin
Authorities in the United States have offered a $10m reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder-turned-international drug kingpin.