Scots aid worker charity in bid to help 20 Afghan students
The Western Isles' Linda Norgrove Foundation hopes to get the 20 women to Scotland.
2023-09-10 16:58
Exclusive: How the Supreme Court's conservatives rebuffed Alabama
When the Supreme Court considered the challenge to an Alabama congressional map that shortchanged the state's Black voters, liberal justices expected the conservative majority to side with Alabama -- if not gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act altogether.
2023-09-08 17:19
Court decriminalises abortion across Mexico
The Supreme Court ruling means all 32 of the country's states can now provide terminations.
2023-09-07 07:56
Uganda's anti-LGBT laws: Man faces death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'
He is charged with "aggravated homosexuality" under tough new anti-LGBTQ legislation enacted in May.
2023-08-29 20:20
Thammakaset: Thai poultry farmer loses his 36th defamation suit
Thailand's best-known human rights campaigner found not guilty of criminal defamation.
2023-08-29 14:57
Taliban stops female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai
The BBC speaks to students who were blocked at the airport as they tried to leave for Dubai.
2023-08-28 14:59
A country where kissing is a custom reels from a major exception
In Spain kissing is a widely-accepted custom. Friends and family do it, whether woman to woman, woman to man, or man to man. It can be lips to cheek or a little kissing sound. There are numerous variants, and even strangers greet each other this way.
2023-08-28 01:48
Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting national park
Afghanistan's acting vice and virtue minister says female visitors were not observing hijab rules.
2023-08-27 19:46
EU safety laws start to bite for TikTok, Instagram and others
Nineteen large platforms have to start complying with new rules as soon as Friday or risk big fines.
2023-08-25 07:25
How surrenders work at the troubled Fulton County jail -- and why Trump's will be different
If former President Donald Trump were facing the booking process that newly charged criminal defendants in Fulton County typically experience, he might find himself lingering for hours at the Rice Street jail waiting for his fingerprints and mug shot to be taken.
2023-08-19 01:23
Officers in Bay Area police department are charged with civil rights violations as part of FBI investigation
Three Antioch, California, police officers were charged with civil rights violations as part of an FBI investigation into officers in the Antioch and Pittsburg Police Departments, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced in a news conference Thursday.
2023-08-18 17:50
US slams North Korea for using repression to build nuclear weapons
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS The United States slammed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the United
2023-08-18 01:51