International News

July 23, 2018

UK using child spies in police operations

British authorities are deploying children as spies in covert policing and security operations, a new UK parliamentary report revealed. Some of the minors tasked with gathering […]
July 23, 2018

How saleswomen in India finally won the ‘right to sit’

A women’s union in India’s southern state of Kerala has won the state’s workers “the right to sit”. BBC Hindi’s Imran Qureshi reports on the story […]
July 23, 2018

Somali father defends FGM after daughter, 10, dies

The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia has defended the practice. Dahir Nur’s daughter died of blood […]
July 23, 2018

Israelis demand equal gay surrogacy rights

Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against a law denying surrogacy to gay couples and single fathers. Demonstrators held their gathering […]
July 23, 2018

India lynchings: WhatsApp sets new rules after mob killings

WhatsApp has said it will limit how many times messages can be forwarded in India, to curb the spread of false information on its platform. The […]
July 23, 2018

India scraps tampon tax after campaign

India has scrapped its 12% tax on all sanitary products following months of campaigning by activists. The announcement comes a year after the government introduced the […]
July 23, 2018

Islamic State ‘Beatles’ duo: UK ‘will not block death penalty’

The UK will not block use of the death penalty by the US in the case of two men who are accused of being Islamic State […]
July 23, 2018

Brazil dam disaster: BHP Billiton faces lawsuit in Australia

Mining giant BHP Billiton says it will defend itself against a class action lawsuit in Australia over Brazil’s 2015 dam disaster. The collapse of a dam […]