3 d. ago Madagascar: Is there a coup and why has the president fled the country?

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has reportedly fled the country after an elite military group joined violent anti-government protests

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8 d. ago Paraglider bomb attack by Myanmar military kills at least 20 at protest

Dozens more injured by night strike on anti-government demonstration held during national holidayAt least 20 people were killed and dozens more were injured in central Myanmar after the military launched a paraglider bomb attack during an anti-government protest on Monday night.The attack hit Chaung U, in Sagaing region, twice during a national holiday. Myanmar has been engulfed in armed conflict since the military seized power in 2021 and the town has been a key battleground in the war. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago From a Utah church to a Denver museum: the man who found 75 pyramids in the US

Over a decade, Ian James captured an array of pyramid structures across 20 US states, now documented in a new bookOn a summer afternoon in 2017, Los Angeles-based artist Ian James found himself at the Pain Reliever Bar & Grill, the only functioning establishment in Nekoma, North Dakota.Lingering until midnight, while trying not to look too much like a Californian in a town of less than 30 residents, James struck up a conversation with a local couple who explained how to gain access to the Stanley R Mickelsen Safeguard Complex. The former anti-ballistic missile military facility, constructed during the cold war and only operational for six months before being decommissioned, was his destination: specifically, its brutalist concrete radar tower resembling an Egyptian pyramid without an apex. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila is sentenced to death for war crimes and treason

Joseph Kabila, 54, was convicted in absentia by a high military court following accusations he collaborated with anti-government rebels.

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3 w. ago Dr. Oz publicly breaks from Trump on Tylenol as he encourages pregnant women to take the drug

‘Tylenol ... probably your best option’, declares Oz after Trump’s wild press conference

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3 w. ago Hegseth shutters group that encourages women in the military as part of his anti

Formed in 1951, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, is one of the oldest advisory committees in the department

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3 w. ago Women on Top Summit: Edinburgh event to address female funding ‘discrimination’

“In Scotland, we're seeing encouraging signs - women are starting more businesses and growing them faster than ever before” – Kylie Reid

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3 w. ago Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett

On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way“Why aren’t women having babies?” It’s the question on everyone’s lips as the fertility rate plummets to a record low in England, Scotland and Wales. A range of answers are always trotted out, from the entirely reasonable (childcare and housing costs; the motherhood career penalty) to the ludicrous (being so dim about our own fertility that we wake up one day realising we’ve left it too late). Yet perhaps it’s time we ask not only “why aren’t women having babies?”, but also “why aren’t men?”Men are largely invisible in the birthrate debate. It’s ironic that amid all the pontificating and the policy ideas for encouraging more women to have babies – a conversation often being had by men – the other half of humanity is strikingly underexamined. Part of the problem is an absence of data: like many European countries, we don’t really have any on male fe...

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3 w. ago England defender Lucy Bronze's new ALIGNE collaboration is the hottest drop of AW25

It's been another shining summer for the England Women's Football Team. They defied all the odds to become European Champions - the first senior footballing team to win an international tournament overseas - while continuing to lobby for equality in women's sport and more encouragement and funding for young girls.

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