BAMAKO – One person was shot dead in Mali’s capital on Wednesday and others were wounded as police opened fire to disperse a protest over the arrest of a talk show host who is a critic of the government, three Malian rights groups said in a statement. Police also fired tear gas to disperse the fans…
PARIS — Male officials are dictating what women can wear on French beaches — and people across a wide swath of French society say that’s a good thing. Decrees issued by several mayors this month ban the body-encompassing burkini swimsuit, which France’s secular political class says subjugates women and is incompatible with a country whose…
A media bus at the Olympics in Rio was vandalized on Tuesday night, possibly by gunfire, witnesses claim. USA Today reports that a passenger heard gunshots striking one of the buses used to transport media to and from Olympic events. The bus was reportedly returning from the women’s basketball venue in Deodoro, when passengers said that they…
Shaima Hussein should have left Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital on Wednesday cradling her newborn son. Instead, she left clutching a bundle of paperwork, the bureaucratic remains of a young life cut short. Hussein’s son was among 11 babies who died of suffocation after a fire broke out in the hospital’s maternity ward. Some were just hours…