Category: News & Current Affairs

After heavy rains inundated towns across East Africa, Somalia faced its worst flooding in decades, resulting in 29 fatalities and displacing over 300,000 residents.

Teen girl and mother speak out about alleged AI-generated nude photosThe 14-year-old said she was told by a school administrator that she was one of the victims of fake A.I.-generated nude photos created by a male classmate.

The health ministry in the Gaza Strip reported that 8,525 people have lost their lives because of Israel’s unrelenting bombing. This number included 3,542 children and 2,187 women.

“Since you have short hair, you must be a feminist. I’m a male chauvinist, and I think feminists deserve to be assaulted,” he told her, according to police comments reported by the Korea Herald newspaper.

35-year-old Joshua Wirgau of Alpena, Michigan, admitted to being an accessory after the fact in the deaths of two people and the disinterment and mutilation of a dead body.

Parisa Mohammadi, 37, from the Caspian city of Babol; Hadis Islami, 26, from Mashhad, in the country’s northeast; and Hamideh Sharifat, 40, from the southwestern city of Omidiyeh, were the most recent victims of domestic violence deaths in Iran.

Around the World in 5 is an ongoing series that highlights news related to women in five countries, updated every week. This week’s post covers October 30 to November 04.

The letter, dated Tuesday, argues that policies that allow men and women to compete against each other validate an ordinary male athlete taking the recognition of a truly outstanding female athlete.

Nigerian artist Oyinlola Odemewu, also known as Lola Mewu, has broken the record for the longest painting marathon. Lola, who set out to paint for 72 hours, concluded the task on Wednesday morning, a total ot 82 hours.