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Swatch Authorities took 172 watches from Swatch shops in May 2023 A Malaysian court has ordered the country’s government to return 172 rainbow-coloured watches it seized from watchmaker Swatch last year. The government said it took the timepieces from the Swiss company because they featured “LGBT elements” – homosexuality is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia and … Read more
Rockets flew on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border even as diplomats tried to finalize a truce.
A woman who was subjected as a child to Female Genital Mutilation has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the violence and torture she was forced to undergo. Leyla Hussein is a psychotherapist who now specialises in supporting survivors of sexual abuse. She grew up in Somalia, where she was subjected to FGM at the age … Read more
More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand were safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets. Four of the pilot whales died, New Zealand’s conservation agency said. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales … Read more
Thousands of supporters of former PM march to the capital, demanding his release from jail and government’s resignation. Thousands of supporters of Imran Khan have been detained by police as Pakistan’s capital remains under lockdown in advance of a rally demanding the release of the jailed former prime minister and resignation of the current government. … Read more
An elderly New York City man fell to his death after climbing out of a window to escape a home invasion over the weekend. The incident happened in Washington Heights near 161st Street and Broadway at about 4:40 a.m. on Saturday when three burglars broke into an apartment. One suspect had scaled a fire escape … Read more
A left-wing former history teacher, Yamandú Orsi, has won the presidential election in Uruguay. Orsi beat Álvaro Delgado, the candidate for the governing conservative coalition, by more than three percentage points in Sunday’s run-off. Delgado conceded defeat and congratulated Orsi and his Broad Front coalition, which will now return to power after five years of … Read more
Torrential rain doused most of the country, stymying travel and leading to widespread flooding, landslides, fallen trees and power outages.
A UN report released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women said that “almost 60 percent of all women who were intentionally killed in 2023” died at the hands of partners or family members. The report added that “the home is the most dangerous place for women and girls”.
Vilnius, Lithuania — A DHL cargo plane crashed early Monday near the airport in Lithuania’s capital, killing one person, authorities said as they searched for clues to what caused the tragedy. Lithuanian officials, who in the past weeks have been investigating incendiary devices allegedly sent on Western-bound cargo planes, stopped short of linking the crash … Read more