A group of female activists in an Iraqi region which saw some of IS’s worst atrocities launched a magazine on International Women’s Day to show “it is normal for women to not cover". The first edition of the Women of Nineveh magazine was launched yesterday and is based in the…
Mexican soldiers have started burning a five-hectare poppy field suspected of belonging to a drug cartel that was found in a mountainous region during a patrol.The field was found in an area known as ‘Triangulo Dorado’ (‘Golden Triangle’), a mountainous region on the border of three Mexican states, Sinaloa, Chihuahua…
Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Central European News The biggest swimming pool in a Russian Muslim-majority region has banned women from enjoying a dip, sparking outrage among feminists and human rights activists. The ban is at the Anzhi Arena spa-complex near the city of Makhachkala in the south-western Russian republic of Dagestan…
Story By: Lee Bullen,Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@bnalain9 This is the moment floodwater fills the valleys and usually arid landscape near the border of the United Arab Emirates and Oman following heavy rains that forced the authorities to issue a weather warning. The incident was filmed in the municipality of…
Story By: Sibel Abdiu, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This is the horrific moment a 37-year-old man accidentally reverses over his one-year-old niece as she hides behind the back of his car and he fails to spot her. The little girl. named as Elif…
