Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to end the practice that remains widespread. Advocates hope the new legislation will better protect girls in Sierra Leone, around a third of whom are married before they turn 18, increasing the…
Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that…
More than a hundred people were killed in a crush at a religious gathering in India’s northern state of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in…
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders on Monday for areas in southern Gaza including eastern Khan Younis and Rafah, forcing…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is paying his first visit to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale war began in February 2022, according…
The head of Gaza’s largest hospital has claimed he was repeatedly tortured during his seven months in Israeli detention, following…
Thirty passengers were injured after a flight from Madrid to Uruguay was hit by “strong turbulence” and had to…
Ukraine has foiled an alleged plot to overthrow the government that “would have played into Russia’s hands,” security officials…