Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held in an Iranian prison for five years on widely refuted spying charges, ended her sentence on Sunday, her lawyer said. However, she faces a new court date in Iran on...
Swiss vote on proposal to ban full-face veils in public places
Switzerland votes Sunday on whether to ban full facial coverings in public places, despite women in Islamic full-face veils being an exceptionally rare sight in Swiss streets.
10 years after Fukushima | Radioactive soil storage still a challenge
A decade after the tsunami and subsequent disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, workers are still cleaning up the radioactive topsoil. The waste will be stored there until 2045, when the Japanese government has...
Thousands rally against COVID lockdown in Vienna, Austria
Thousands took to the streets of Vienna, Austria to protest against COVID restrictions, with some holding banners that read ‘Kurz must go.’
Mammoth tusks of up to 40,000 y/o discovered in Siberia
Four mammoth tusks have been discovered in a coal mine north of the Siberian city of Kemerovo. The head of the Department of Scientific Research and Expeditions of the Kuzbass State Museum, Dmitry Slobodin says that...
#MainBhi: Women in India speak out against sexual harassment
Journalists, comedians and actors figured prominently in India’s MeToo movement in 2018, coming out with stories of harassment at the hands of men in power. A recent court verdict, acquitting an accuser in a defamation...
The Superpower and the Saudis
Ros Atkins on Joe Biden’s first foreign policy test – how to deal with Saudi Arabia. Produced by Courtney Bembridge, Henry Belot and Sophia Tran-Thomson.