A team of more than 100 vets and volunteers is aiming to vaccinate 100,000 dogs in just ten days to help fight rabies in Cambodia. Mission Rabies, a project of the international charity Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) which has recently merged with Dogs Trust, will run the mass vaccination campaign in the country’s capital Phnom […]
Police have discovered the body of a man thought to have died awaiting the outcome of an asylum claim while living at a government-run hotel. The man, who’s believed to have been staying at a hotel in Kegworth, Leicestershire, administered by the Home Office, was found dead on the banks of the River Soar on […]
A transgender girl in the US is missing her graduation after being made to feel ‘shamed and humiliated’ by the school’s insistence she dress as a boy, her lawyer claims. Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, Mississippi, said the 17-year-old student ‘has met the qualifications to receive a diploma’ but reportedly rejected her request to […]
A Duke of Edinburgh’s Award ambassador has told how he escaped a postcode war in his early teens by taking up the expeditions at his local youth club. Thomas Richards, 27, said the scheme ‘saved my life’ as he grew up amid gang rivalries and suffered the loss of his mum while he was away […]
Every year in mid-May, tens of thousands of people travel to the town of Fátima in central Portugal to mark the anniversary of three shepherd children seeing a stunningly bright vision of the Virgin Mary holding a rosary in 1917. I was watching the enormous crowd live on a restaurant TV around 30 miles away […]
Russia’s claim of victory in Bakhmut suggests that the brutal urban combat that marked the deadliest battle of its war in Ukraine might be over. But what comes next is far from clear. While Moscow is trumpeting a “Mission Accomplished” moment, Ukraine — even as it insists Bakhmut has not completely fallen — sees an […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday to join a summit of Arab leaders, including the heads of wealthy Gulf States that have already provided substantial aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. Making his latest diplomatic tour days after barnstorming through several European capitals, Mr. Zelensky said […]
On April 11 on the Greek island of Lesbos, 12 migrants — men, women, children and an infant — were locked inside this unmarked van… On April 11 on the Greek island of Lesbos, 12 migrants — men, women, children and an infant — were locked inside this unmarked van… …forced onto a speedboat, transferred […]
The chief of Ukraine’s Supreme Court was formally arrested Thursday, as prosecutors indicated in a second day of hearings that a high-level corruption case was expanding to include a wider circle of judges. Prosecutors also accused a lawyer of acting as an intermediary in paying a bribe to the chief justice, and said that at […]
Ukraine and Russia agreed Wednesday to a two-month extension of a wartime deal that allows Ukraine to ship its grain across the Black Sea, a rare example of cooperation between the two countries. The agreement was scheduled to expire on Thursday. While both sides expressed ongoing grievances over the issue of exports, reaching agreement appeared […]