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Cheering, flag-waving crowds gathered in Tokyo on Sunday for the first full Pride parade in four years, celebrating advances in LGBTQ rights but demanding Japan join other advanced nations in legally recognizing same-sex marriage.
Russian journalists were not issued visas to cover Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's participation in UN events in New York. Russian government officials have promised to take retaliatory measures.
Incensed by an opinion piece, Lachlan Murdoch came at Crikey with guns blazing. But in the end he walked away – for the second time in a week
Russian airstrikes hit the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Cyprus has imposed sanctions on individuals named by the United States and the UK, as they help Russian oligarchs circumvent the sanctions imposed on Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
First lady Kim Keon Hee faces criticism from a group representing dog meat farm owners for her recent remarks calling for an end to the country's contentious culture of eating dogs. The group claimed Kim, who is neither a president nor a lawmaker, should maintain neutrality as the role of the first lady is supporting the president.
Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was captured 21 years ago in Pakistan as a “law of war detainee” during the widespread search for terrorist threats by the U.S. following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Russian-controlled Kyiv District Court of Simferopol has sentenced Crimean Tatar Appaz Kurtamet to 7 years of imprisonment for allegedly transferring 500 hryvnias to the volunteer battalion Crimea.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has stated that Ukrainian forces took up positions on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast.
Russia is advising citizens to avoid travel to Canada, citing what it calls numerous cases of discrimination against Russians, including physical violence, its foreign ministry said on Saturday.
Violent criminals who served with the notorious Russian militia in Ukraine are terrorising the communities they return to
Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, has reacted to the outrageous statements made by China’s ambassador to France regarding “Russian Crimea” and the status of post-Soviet states in international law.
As the May 14 elections approach, the Interior Ministery’s police and gendarmerie departments have increased the number of their tenders for the purchase of pepper spray. Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Murat Bakan on April 19 stated that the Gendarmerie General Command instructed all its personnel to be ready to stand by their units on the election day.
There are fears over what appears to be a sharp rise in illegal abortions in Iran. A health official recently warned about the "disastrous" number of illegal abortions after Iranian authorities restricted medical abortions as part of attempts to boost the declining birthrate.
At least 21 bodies have been found in southeast Kenya in connection with a cult leader who told his followers to starve themselves and kill their children to ‘meet Jesus,’ local officials say. It’s feared the death toll could reach more than 100. Police confirmed on Saturday that at least 21 bodies have been recovered […]