Transgender people are considered outcasts by many in Pakistan, despite some progress with a law protecting their rights and court rulings that allow them to choose a gender that is neither male nor female. But the struggle for acceptance and inclusion is harder for Pakistan’s trans men.
Residents of an eastern Bosnian town that survived a brutal siege during the country’s 1992-95 interethnic war jumped at a recent opportunity to join an EU-facilitated effort to help Ukraine generate power amid Russia’s brutal attacks against its energy infrastructure.
One of Haiti’s nearly 200 gangs ambushed a police unit, sending gunfire echoing through the streets in Port-Au-Prince. The firefight left three officers dead, one wounded and another missing.
Decorating the deities is a millennia-old practice that is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Some U.S. and Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of deliberately slowing down inspections, which a Russian official denied.
"There is a realistic possibility of local Russian advances" around Bakhmut, which would give the Kremlin a victory after months of setbacks, the U.K. defense ministry said
Cambodia is still strewn with mines from three decades of war, while the problem in Ukraine is new since Russia invaded last year.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost 11 months ago, many Ukrainians had fled to Dnipro. The city with a prewar population of nearly 1 million seemed relatively safe compared to to other areas in Ukraine’s war-torn east. But a Russian missile that struck an apartment building and killed at least 45 people on Jan. 14 shattered that belief.
More than 50 defense leaders meeting in Germany failed to hammer out an agreement — stalled by Berlin's hesitation.
A former U.S. Navy SEAL was killed this week in Ukraine, American officials said Friday. They said he was not fighting in an official capacity.
The first Native American woman in space ventured out on a spacewalk Friday to prep the International Space Station for more solar panels.
Prosecutors are likening the arrest of a Mafia boss who was Italy's No. 1 fugitive to an “earthquake” rocking the Sicily-based crime syndicate. Still, experts say the capture at a Palermo clinic of Matteo Messina Denaro after 30 years on the lam won't eradicate the centuries-old crime organization.
