A new class action lawsuit alleges a woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy cannot get the care she needs in Kentucky.
Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as the first openly transgender candidate, hoping to forge a more inclusive and tolerant political culture on the South Asian island. Transgender people are estimated to make up about 1% of Sri Lanka's 22 million people, according to Equal Ground, a local civil society group. Nimesha, who is contesting from Kegalle - about 80km (50 miles) east of Colombo - said she was the first transgender person to run for a seat in the 225-strong parliament and that her message of social justice had been well received.
The results showed Whipps Jr won 5,626 votes, defeating his brother-in-law Tommy Remengesau who received 4,103 votes. Palau, which is important to the U.S. military amid tensions with China and is among a dozen diplomatic allies of Taiwan, held a national election for president and its senate on Nov. 5.
A Greenland court will decide Wednesday whether to further extend US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson's time in custody pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over an altercation with whalers.- Danish decision pending - The Danish justice ministry has not said when it will announce its decision on the extradition request.
After fleeing Iran and making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Kurdish activist Maysoon Majidi did not expect to be jailed in Italy for people smuggling."I had to leave Iran not just to stay alive, but also to be able to continue my work as an activist."
Airlines in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore cancelled flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednesday, after a nearby volcano catapulted an ash tower miles into the sky.Malaysia Airlines said it had cancelled six flights Wednesday in a statement on its website.
For weeks, Marine Le Pen has thrown all her energy into fighting what she calls unfair accusations that her party embezzled European Parliament funds. Le Pen is anticipating a guilty verdict, as prosecutors wrap up their case Wednesday and lay out their proposed sentence. The National Rally and 25 of its officials, including Le Pen, are accused of having used money intended for EU parliamentary aides instead to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.
The United States will officially open a new air defence base in northern Poland on Wednesday, as Warsaw seeks to reassure citizens that NATO guarantees their security amid jitters after Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Situated in the town of Redzikowo near the Baltic coast, the base has been in the works since the 2000s and Warsaw says it symbolises the fact that its military alliance with Washington remains solid no matter who is in the White House. "It took a while, but this construction proves the geostrategic resolve of the United States," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in a video posted to X on Tuesday.
In a series of war games in the seas and skies around Taiwan last month, China deployed some of its newest strike aircraft, warships and missile forces. Like America, which still relies on upgraded versions of the B-52, a bomber from the same era, China has successfully modernized its jet-powered H-6 to carry on flying deep into the 21st Century. These bombers were shown on China’s state-controlled media taking off for missions designed to intimidate Taiwan as part of the war-game drills.
Blasts were heard by Reuters' witnesses in Kyiv on Wednesday after Ukraine's air force put the whole country under air raid alert following the launch of Russian missile attacks. In the first missile attack in more than two months, Russia used cruise missiles launched from strategic aircraft as well as ballistic missiles, Ukrainian military said. Air defence forces are working.
The main task for nearly 200 countries at the U.N.'s COP29 climate summit is to broker a deal that ensures up to trillions of dollars in financing for climate projects worldwide. Here is what you need to know about the Nov. 11-22 summit talks on finance. Wealthy countries pledged in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year to help developing nations cope with the costs of a transition to clean energy and adapting to the conditions of a warming world.
Four separate storm systems are churning their way through the West Pacific simultaneously, a rare occurrence resulting from warmer oceans that threatens to bring more misery to the storm-weary Philippines.
Billionaire Elon Musk took a wild gamble backing Donald Trump's White House candidacy, but the bet has paid off -- at least for now -- with the US president-elect handing him an outsized role to overhaul the government.Years later, Musk has become Trump's most prominent celebrity endorser, leaning fully in to get him and his "Make America Great Again" agenda back in the White House.
At least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured when a man ploughed his car into pedestrians exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday night.Soon after, the hashtag "Man in Zhuhai rammed the crowd causing 35 deaths" jumped to the No. 1 trending topic on Weibo and reached 69 million views within an hour.
Trump named tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new "Department of Government Efficiency," fulfilling a campaign pledge to give Musk sweeping oversight of government spending.
Several international airlines cancelled flights to and from Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Wednesday, after further eruptions of a volcano that has spewed ash clouds as high as 10 km (32,808 ft) and forced thousands to evacuate. Jetstar and Qantas said they had stopped flights to Bali on Wednesday for safety reasons because of volcanic ash, while plane tracking website Flightradar24 showed flights to the island by AirAsia and Virgin were also cancelled. Bali is Indonesia's top tourist hotspot and is a popular destination for Australian visitors.
The Indonesian and Australian militaries began joint combat drills off Indonesia’s main island of Java on Wednesday with about 2,000 troops training in air, maritime, amphibious and land operations. The four-day Keris Woomera 2024 exercise highlighted the cooperation between the countries strengthened by the recent signing of the Australia-Indonesia Defense Cooperation Agreement. Although Indonesia is often presented as one of Australia’s most important neighbors and strategic allies, the relationship has fluctuated.
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. During his presidential bid, Trump pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for transgender students.
Donald Trump’s election victory created a profound conundrum for the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York. Can he go ahead and sentence the president-elect, or would doing so potentially get in the way of Trump's constitutional responsibility to lead the nation? Court documents made public Tuesday revealed that Judge Juan M. Merchan has effectively put the case on hold until at least Nov. 19 while he and the lawyers on both sides weigh in on what should happen next.
The musician Nelly, famous for such hits as "Air Force Ones" and "Hot In Herre," will not be charged after he was arrested in a St.
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