Headlines- After US forces struck two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran says to have attacked US bases in Jordan.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says that several Iranian fighters and civilians were killed and injured in the US attack on Larak Island.
- Since resuming its naval blockade of Iran on July 14, US Central Command claimed to have diverted 83 commercial vessels, disabled three, and boarded two.
- Guinea-Bissau held a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to grant the president additional authority.
- At least eight people died, 237 have been rescued, and 23 are still missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.
- NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is intended to survey the universe on a never-before-seen scale while investigating far-off planets, exploding stars, and black holes.
- At least 750 people killed and another 3000 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
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App to Combat Gender-Based Violence Created...
In the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, violence against women has increased around the world, particularly in South Africa, where half of all women have experienced at least one incident of abuse during their lives. To help prevent the abuse, a local tech firm has developed an alarm system
Two Tajik Voters Tell RFE/RL They...
Irregularities have been reported from the October 11 presidential election in Tajikistan. Talking to an RFE/RL correspondent in the northern city of Khujand, two voters openly said that they had cast more than one ballot. Both women claimed to have voted on behalf of other family members, a practice that is unlawful in Tajikistan
Nobody’s Child: Inside Ukraine’s Controversial Surrogate...
Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that allows commercial surrogacy. Biological parents, often from abroad, pay a company to organize a surrogate mother to carry their child. For some couples, it’s their only chance at longed-for parenthood. But when something goes wrong, human lives hang in the balance, and critics say the business should be stopped or at least regulated. The case of a baby named Brigit, born with disabilities and abandoned, highlights the risks involved