Aisha Maathai/Seven Billion Today 3.8 million women are hurt from breast ironing. Hot stones and hammers are used to flatten breasts. This starts at 10 year old, for some. A traditional practice they say, to help protect girls from being raped and made pregnant. This m ...বিস্তারিত
Skot Thayer, OZY Author/OZY.com Fifteen minutes before the start of the discussion forum titled “Should We Rewrite Our History Textbooks?” at the Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an angry attendee waved his fists and accused panelist Fahmi Reza, an act ...বিস্তারিত
Sue Halpern/ US military is creating a more automated form of warfare — one that will further enhance its capacity to wage war In April, when the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington, it looked as if the nation ...বিস্তারিত
Joe Macaron, Fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC/ Aljazeera Palestinians can't continue to live like this. We need to rise and act before we fall deeper into the abyss. The Sochi agreement on Idlib between Russia and Turkey was expected to come into effect on Octob ...বিস্তারিত
Nairita Mukherjee/Daily O , India Colleges in India are nothing like what Kuch Kuch Hota Hai told you. I looked, failed, and saw the bubble I was living in burst into a million pieces Bollywood has messed us up in ways we’re yet to discover. And the mother India or t ...বিস্তারিত
Yoon Young-kwan, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University /Reuters When South Korean President Moon Jae-in holds his first summit with the EU on October 19, North Korea will be at the top of the agenda. Many in Seoul hope that Europe will take a step forward and be ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian, UK At least 10 people have been killed and many more wounded in a bomb explosion at a college in Crimea that one witness told local television also involved an attack by at least one armed gunman. The Russian national anti-terrorism committee, a government bo ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters The lawyer for U.S. evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson applied to a Turkish court to challenge the jail sentence his client received last week, saying the verdict contravened the law and procedures, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday. Brunson was at t ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters Efforts to unite the Brazilian left against right-wing presidential front runner Jair Bolsonaro have snagged on internal squabbles, making it even harder to close a gap in opinion polls less than two weeks before the runoff election. The latest poll, released by Ib ...বিস্তারিত
AP Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gunbattle raged between militants and government forces. The gunbattle began early Wednesday after troops cordoned off a neighborhood in Srinagar on a tip that some ...বিস্তারিত