Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, he may issue an order "very soon" to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, which is reported to host nuclear facilities.
- The war in Iran, US President Donald Trump said, is "small potatoes" and "not a big thing" for the United States, as the US has "essentially" taken over Iran.
- In a post on his X account on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei accused that the US was "deliberately attacking civilian targets".
- According to a Nigerian environmental NGO, an attempt to illegally tap oil from a cargo vessel in the country's south resulted in at least 37 deaths.
- The Israeli police has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching an occupied West Bank village that has been under siege by settlers for weeks, while Israeli police have killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem.
Tag: Same Sex Marriage
Hong Kong Legislature Rejects Bill on...
Lawmakers in Hong Kong on Wednesday roundly rejected a bill that would have granted limited recognition to same-sex partnerships in the city, disappointing backers in the LGBTQ+ community.
Malaysian Gay Couples Dream of Saying...
Malaysia remains one of the most difficult places in Southeast Asia for LGBTQ+ individuals, where homosexuality is criminalized under colonial-era laws and further penalized by Sharia courts for Muslims.
Together Three Decades, Thai Same-Sex Couple...
The push for legalizing same-sex marriage in Thailand gained momentum in mid-2012 when LGBTQ activist Natee Theerarojanapong and his partner were denied marriage registration because of their gender, leading to the drafting of a civil partnership bill in 2013.
Supreme Court of India Holds Landmark...
In response to petitions filed by several members of the LGBTQ community, India’s Supreme Court is holding landmark hearings on the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
Botswana De-Criminalized Homosexuality
Campaigners for same sex relationships in court in Gaborone, Botswana, where a judge decriminalized homosexuality.Some of the people who attended a court case in Gaborone, Botswana, where the court decriminalized same sex relationships.Happy campaiger
Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Tie The...
Marriage equality campaiganer Lu Hsin-chieh said that the law wasn’t exactly what they had campaigned for, but that it had been passed in order to comply with an interpretation of the constitution by Taiwan’s highest court two years earlier
Taiwanese Reject Legalizing Same-Sex Unions in...
Ruling party lawmakers backed by President Tsai Ing-wen had proposed legalizing same-sex marriage in late 2016, but put their ideas aside to await the court hearing