‘Significant Surge’ of crossings at US-Mexico border
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned of a global birth rate crisis after surveying people in 14 countries. Some 14,000 people were questioned as part of the study, and one in five had not had or did not expect to have the number of children they wanted. Why It Matters Countries all over…
KAMPALA, June 1 (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended signing one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, with punishments up to and including the death penalty, saying it was needed to prevent LGBTQ community members he said were “disoriented” from “recruiting” others. His comments were the first since he signed the bill into…
Andrzej Duda says there is no evidence to suggest missile that landed in his country was launched by Russia Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, has said there is no evidence to suggest a missile that landed in his country on Tuesday evening, killing two people, was an intentional attack or was launched by Russia. “Most likely,…
Bolivia’s state-owned company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) Thursday signed two separate agreements whereby Chinese and Russian companies will invest over US$1.4 billion to build two industrial complexes for the production of lithium carbonate, it was reported in La Paz. China’s Citic Guoan and Russia’s Uranium One Group — both with a major government stake…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has spoken of an “historic opportunity” for Arab states to remake their region “with the least amount of foreign interference”, in his first trip to an Arab League summit in over a decade. He said Arab leaders should build on the reconciliation ahead of the summit. Syria had been suspended from…
WARSAW, July 17 (Reuters) – Poland’s president vetoed two bills on Friday that would have introduced “cohabitation contracts” for couples living together, dealing a blow to same-sex couples in one of the few European Union countries with limited rights for LGBT people. Prime Minister Donald Tusk took office in 2023 pledging to deliver reforms on…