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Period products are now being supplied to men’s restrooms visited by Scotland’s transgender civil servants, British media has revealed. The move has apparently been introduced by the cabinet to top up its equality index. The first country in the world that made sanitary pads and tampons free for all is now also providing them in the male lavatorie..

A celebrity Swiss chef has been ousted from his position at London’s luxury, five-star Claridge’s Hotel after he sparked controversy by trying to make its iconic, meat-laden menu fully plant-based to save the environment. In a statement on Friday, Claridge’s announced that it had “mutually agreed” to separate with Daniel Humm, the chef and owner a..

Issued on: 05/11/2021 - 18:38Modified: 05/11/2021 - 18:40 A key part of the global fight to tackle global warming is the idea of carbon neutrality – a state of net zero carbon dioxide emissions. Like many countries and institutions around the world, France has committed to going carbon neutral by 2050. So how exactly is the country planning to ge..

Issued on: 05/11/2021 - 16:51 The banana has become the surprising symbol of the growing tensions between Turks and the nearly 4 million Syrian refugees in Turkey. Viral TikTok videos in which young Syrians film themselves eating the yellow fruit have sparked the wrath of Turkish police, and Ankara has ordered the deportation of 11 Syrians who po..

In July 2021, the US launched its Nuclear Posture Evaluate, geared toward reportedly decreasing the significance of nuclear weapons. Amid this course of, Washington’s allies fear about potential evolutions in elementary ideas of nuclear deterrence. For that purpose, in their joint statement revealed on October 29, the US and France reasserted the significance of nuclear functionality to “preserve peace, prevent coercion, deter aggression.”

On November 2, in a late-night Weibo put up, Chinese language tennis star Peng Shuai told a shocking tale of sexual assault and coercion, adopted by a years-long affair with Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the Chinese language Communist Celebration’s Politburo Standing Committee.

Issued on: 05/11/2021 - 13:26 Women represent half the population in Iraq, but are almost invisible in the public sphere. In this ultra-conservative society, a woman's place is neither at school nor at work, but out of sight at home. Yet some brave women have decided to fight against these traditions, despite the danger. Our reporters went t..

Issued on: 05/11/2021 - 11:41 Derived from the French word for obstacle course, parkour involves running, jumping, climbing and vaulting to get from one point to another in a complex environment. It carries symbolic weight for Palestinians Jehad and Abdallah, who practice the sport in the ruins of Gaza. For them, it almost literally embodies the ..

The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2014 ruling by a Hague-based arbitration tribunal that ordered Russia to pay $57 billion to former shareholders of Yukos, a defunct oil giant once owned by ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. “Today the Supreme Court quashed the appeal court’s final judgement as well as the court’s preceding judgement,” the S..

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has overturned a $50 billion award that Russia had been ordered to pay the former majority shareholders of the dismantled oil giant Yukos, sending the case back to a lower appeals court. "Today the Supreme Court quashed the appeal court's final judgement as well as the court’s preceding judgement," the cour..

Issued on: 05/11/2021 - 10:33 French lawmakers on Friday approved the continued use of the country’s health pass – a paper or digital certificate that shows a person has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or has recently tested negative for or recovered from the disease – as a requirement for entrance to certain public spaces until July 31, ..