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In an escalation of its decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the lead-up to elections, simultaneous police raids beginning at 1 a.m. took place in the major cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin and Mersin.

Luan was a 17-year-old trans boy. When authorities recovered his body, injuries to his neck and face, blood, burns and preliminary forensic observations pointed to severe violence before his death.

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Britain, France and Canada will ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in a move that prompted a swift retaliation and could spark a broader geo-political storm.

The 52-year-old Guru Ma was a recognized leader in Chattogram’s hijra community. Police say CCTV identified Md Momin, who confessed during questioning to killing Mousumi with a nylon strap.

The weekend win by Alternative for Germany in the state of Saxony-Anhalt has sent shivers across the continent, and could embolden the right across Europe.

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A new adoption law in Ecuador contains discriminatory provisions targeting lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and threatens to strip many parents of transgender children of their parental rights, Human Rights Watch said today.

As the film ‘Khejdi’ played at Delhi’s BMVK Auditorium, a question hung over the room: Who gets to decide what gender looks like?

Party insider reveals how election campaign was blindsided by rise of anti-immigrant feeling in new book

Sarah Khalifa, 39, charged with forming organised criminal gang to manufacture and traffic drugs

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Two pilots have died in an air force jet crash at Greece’s annual aerial show, Athens Flying Week.

The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.

“We were 20 miles out and had travelled a very long way, paid thousands in travel costs and accommodation to make sure I’d be free and available, and I’d arranged time away from work.

The Swiss government this week announced it supports a nationwide ban on so-called conversion therapy.

MANILA – The Philippines has the most number of documented trans women killings in the Southeast Asia.

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

Israel’s far-right national security minister deletes two videos that were criticised for promoting the poor treatment of Palestinian prisoners.

Scenes from the floods in Nepal and Tibet are catastrophic. But another disaster is unfolding underground and out of sight.

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President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada .

Flash floods have swept through northern Nepal, killing at least eight people and washing away homes.

President Prabowo Subianto has given his government an “OK” report card as it nears two years in office, but not everyone agrees, with some civil society groups raising white flags and others forming a “shadow cabinet”.

Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.

Israeli protesters block aid trucks from reaching Gaza

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander campaigns for Kurdish language preservation after decade fighting ISIL.

After JK Rowling threatened to sue the human rights organization, it capitulated—and then reportedly issued takedown requests.

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Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data finds

Bavaria, energy company RWE, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, and fusion startup Proxima Fusion agreed in February 2026 to build Europe’s first commercial fusion power plant at Gundremmingen. The timeline is ambitious but grounded in solid science: the Wendelstein 7-X experimental reactor set a world record in May 2025.

The 44-year-old was fatally stabbed in Córdoba, while prosecutors initially classified the case as simple homicide and LGBTQ+ advocates demanded a gender-and-diversity investigation.

Kept in the dark after reporting her boss for harassment, Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is now campaigning for victims’ right to know how their bullies were disciplined.

The Central Asian country heads to the polls on August 23.

Myanmar’s military and other parties to the conflict detained at least 27 humanitarian aid workers in ten separate incidents in July — one more incident than was recorded across the first six months of 2026 combined after four aid workers held in southern Tanintharyi Region saw three confirmed dead and a fourth still unaccounted for, according to a new access report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Lebanese state media says Israel indiscriminately attacked several towns, with extensive destruction reported in Bayt al-Sayyad

The Turkish arrest warrant accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ‘crimes against humanity, genocide, aggravated deprivation of liberty,’ and ‘torture,’ linked to Israel’s treatment of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Prince Harry and six other well-known figures were ordered on Friday to make the payment to the publisher of the ‘Daily Mail’ within a week after they lost their privacy case against the British tabloid.

The integration of the Kurdish administration within Syria’s state institutions is now complete, Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi announced on Thursday, August 20, marking the end of the Kurds’ long-held dream of autonomy. The announcement follows months of negotiations between the two sides after a January agreement that called for the full integration of Kurdish civil and military institutions into the state – a move Washington deemed “historic.”

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MANILA, Philippines — The Makabayan bloc is seeking a congressional inquiry into the reported attacks on transgenders, including at least one homicide, as it aims to institute measures that would penalize these hate crimes.

A harsher law threatens up to 10 years in prison and widens criminal exposure around trans life, advocacy, and financial support.

Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.

Sources have told The Verge that Ninja Theory staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, leaving the team looking for a buyer so…

We would like to take a moment to talk about the experimental just-in-time compiler in CPython, and the path we think it should take from here.

When Rebecca Figueroa gave birth to her fourth child, her right leg was chained to the hospital bed so tightly that the shackle left cut marks on her skin, she said.

The report reviewed articles published between January 1 and April 25 across 10 major news outlets. According to the analysis, the Times published 60 news stories centered mainly on transgender issues during that period. Only 12 included quotes from transgender people or advocacy representatives, a rate of 20 percent.

The report reviewed articles published between January 1 and April 25 across 10 major news outlets. According to the analysis, the Times published 60 news stories centered mainly on transgender issues during that period. Only 12 included quotes from transgender people or advocacy representatives, a rate of 20 percent.

People with major depressive disorder can see a rapid and lasting improvement after a single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) when it is combined with psychotherapy, doctors have said.

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.

So secure was the annual contest to fill three director and four officer positions that when one trustee lost his cryptographic key to unlock the results, the error made it impossible.

The Arch Linux team has once again been forced to respond to a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting its AUR repository infrastructure. As a result, DDoS protection has been enabled for aur.archlinux.org to help mitigate the ongoing disruption.

An aggregation of Gentoo-related weblog articles written by Gentoo developers.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, green sea turtles had the second-highest nesting season on record for Florida, with 61,708 nests as of the August update. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that green sea turtles have improved in status from "Endangered" to "Least Concern."

Mr. Trump's perseverance as a peacemaker is unpredictable.

In the time since I have disappeared from our television screens, I have spent more time back here in this valley, in the land of my ancestors.